---
name: "Hugo Guinness"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugo-guinness"
fi1m_id: "hugo-guinness"
imdb_id: "nm2450453"
tmdb_id: 992097
wikidata_id: "Q5933988"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 September 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T21:14:07.959375+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hugo Guinness

## Identity

Hugo Guinness

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugo-guinness
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hugo-guinness
- **IMDb ID:** nm2450453
- **TMDB ID:** 992097
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5933988
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Guinness, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2450453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/992097

Writer. Born 12 September 1959 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 September 1959, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** Hugo Arthur Rundell Guinness
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 86 (1), 2020s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Guinness, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2450453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/992097

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fantastic Mr. Fox*](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Hugo Guinness (born Hugo Arthur Rundell Guinness, 12 September 1959) is a British artist, illustrator and writer. He is known for his bold graphic black-and-white block prints and illustrations that have appeared in publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Guinness has collaborated with film director Wes Anderson, providing artwork for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and voicing the character Nathan Bunce in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). He co-wrote the story for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and contributed to the story of The French Dispatch (2021). He attended Eton College and has been married to artist Elliott Puckette since 1996.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), Fi1m 84, as Nathan Bunce (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), Fi1m 68, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md)
- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), Fi1m 86, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Doomed and Famous* (2025), as Alfred Lord Tennyson
- *The Phoenician Scheme* (2025), Creative Consultant — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-phoenician-scheme.md)
- *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), Story — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md)
- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), Story — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)
- *Hi Society: The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam* (2009), Actor
- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), as Nathan Bunce (voice) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2015: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Grand Budapest Hotel*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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