---
name: "Wes Anderson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wes-anderson"
fi1m_id: "wes-anderson"
imdb_id: "nm0027572"
tmdb_id: 5655
wikidata_id: "Q223687"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "1 May 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 14
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "director"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-09-30T21:14:07.966675+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."
---

# Wes Anderson

## Identity

Wes Anderson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wes-anderson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wes-anderson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0027572
- **TMDB ID:** 5655
- **Wikidata ID:** Q223687
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5655

Director and writer. Born 1 May 1969 in Houston, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 1 May 1969, Houston, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Also known as:** Wesley Wales Anderson, Wesley Anderson
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 14: 2 acting, 10 directing, 1 producing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Jeremy Dawson](https://film.one/person/jeremy-dawson.md), [Steven Rales](https://film.one/person/steven-m-rales.md), [Scott Rudin](https://film.one/person/scott-rudin.md), [Bill Murray](https://film.one/person/bill-murray.md), [Jason Schwartzman](https://film.one/person/jason-schwartzman.md), [Owen Wilson](https://film.one/person/owen-wilson.md), [Adrien Brody](https://film.one/person/adrien-brody.md), [Barry Mendel](https://film.one/person/barry-mendel.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 7 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (2), 2000s 84 (4), 2010s 79 (4), 2020s 68 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 76 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 10, Drama 7, Adventure 3, Animation 2, Crime 2, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 17 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $593m across 10 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5655

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Bottle Rocket*](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md) (78), [*The Phoenician Scheme*](https://film.one/film/the-phoenician-scheme.md) (70)
- **Disney+:** [*Fantastic Mr. Fox*](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md) (84)
- **HBO Max:** [*Isle of Dogs*](https://film.one/film/isle-of-dogs.md) (78)
- **Peacock:** [*Asteroid City*](https://film.one/film/asteroid-city.md) (71)

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

## Fi1m on Wes Anderson

> Wes Anderson gives troubled families exact rooms and dry dialogue, and we like him most when the people are allowed to be awkward. His care is worth our time; his elaborate storytelling can test our patience.

In *Bottle Rocket* (1996), Dignan’s friends have to take his criminal plans seriously enough not to hurt his feelings. Owen Wilson makes that unreasonable demand touching. Written by Anderson and Wilson, the film lets the small negotiations between friends matter more than the mechanics of a heist. Its drift occasionally tries our patience, and the writing is less generous to the people around Dignan. But this is the Anderson we warm to: attentive to how much trouble people will accept for someone they care about.

*Rushmore* (1998) sharpened the style, while *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001) expanded his ensemble approach to explore a troubled family. Symmetrical frames, rooms arranged like doll’s houses and deadpan performances became recurring habits. In *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), the care paid to the setting gave us a place we were sorry to leave. The difficulty comes when explaining how a story is being told takes time away from the people in it.

*Asteroid City* (2023) begins on a black-and-white television stage before taking us into a play set in a desert town. The changing frame and colour are inviting; the repeated reminders of act and scene are less so. We were bored through much of the middle because the children trading facts and the adults trading silences gave us so little to care about. Alexandre Desplat’s short, plucked-string cues sensibly stay out of the way. The film does reach us, but it takes too long.

*The Phoenician Scheme* (2025) is a welcome return to one story and one central figure, though it spends too long moving between meetings. Benicio del Toro gives the industrialist Korda a patient weight, speaking in complete paragraphs without making the performance feel pleased with itself. Mia Threapleton’s watchful Liesl holds her own against him, but the father-daughter writing too often stops at her disapproval. Anderson gets more from these actors than he gives their relationship to do.

Bruno Delbonnel’s warm ochres and greens leave some shadow in those interiors, and the barer frames help keep our attention on Korda. Adam Stockhausen’s rooms are still built to be seen square-on, but there is less clutter to compete with the performance. That restraint suits Anderson, whose precise arrangements need not prevent an actor from surprising us. Start with *Bottle Rocket* for the friendships; try *The Phoenician Scheme* for del Toro, with some patience for the itinerary.

## Biography

Wes Anderson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Born Wesley Wales Anderson on 1 May 1969 in Houston, Texas, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he met Owen Wilson. The pair began making short films together; their collaboration led to the feature *Bottle Rocket* (1996).

Anderson's subsequent films include *Rushmore* (1998), *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001), *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou* (2004), *The Darjeeling Limited* (2007), *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), *Moonrise Kingdom* (2012), *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), *Isle of Dogs* (2018), *The French Dispatch* (2021) and *Asteroid City* (2023). He wrote, directed and produced *The Phoenician Scheme* (2025). He founded the production company American Empirical Pictures in 1998.

Anderson received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for *The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar* (2023). He has been nominated for several Academy Awards, including for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and has won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

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

## On Fi1m (14)

### Performed in (2)

- *Sing 2* (2021), Fi1m 63, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *Sing* (2016), Fi1m 70, as Daniel (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/sing.md)

### Directed (10) — the average rests on these

- *The Phoenician Scheme* (2025), Fi1m 70, Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-phoenician-scheme.md)
- *Asteroid City* (2023), Fi1m 71, Screenplay, Producer, Director, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/asteroid-city.md)
- *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), Fi1m 68, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md)
- *Isle of Dogs* (2018), Fi1m 78, Story, Director, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/isle-of-dogs.md)
- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), Fi1m 86, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)
- *Moonrise Kingdom* (2012), Fi1m 82, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/moonrise-kingdom.md)
- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), Fi1m 84, as Stan Weasel (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)
- *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001), Fi1m 84, Writer, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-royal-tenenbaums.md)
- *Rushmore* (1998), Fi1m 83, Executive Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)
- *Bottle Rocket* (1996), Fi1m 78, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md)

### Produced (1)

- *The Squid and the Whale* (2005), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-squid-and-the-whale.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Civilware2025* (2025), Director of Photography
- *The Phoenician Scheme* (2025), Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-phoenician-scheme.md)
- *Uncropped* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More* (2024), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Poison* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Rat Catcher* (2023), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Swan* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar* (2023), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Asteroid City* (2023), Producer, Screenplay, Story, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/asteroid-city.md)
- *A Cooler Climate* (2022), Thanks
- *Sing 2* (2021), as Additional Voices (voice) — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md)
- *Isle of Dogs* (2018), Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/isle-of-dogs.md)
- *Escapes* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Sing* (2016), as Daniel (voice) — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/sing.md)
- *She's Funny That Way* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Listen Up Philip* (2014), Thanks
- *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md)
- *Castello Cavalcanti* (2013), Writer, Director
- *Cousin Ben Troop Screening* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Do You Like to Read?* (2012), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Moonrise Kingdom* (2012), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/moonrise-kingdom.md)
- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), as Stan Weasel (voice) · Director, Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)
- *Hotel Chevalier* (2007), Director, Writer
- *The Darjeeling Limited* (2007), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Squid and the Whale* (2005), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-squid-and-the-whale.md)
- *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou* (2004), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Thanks — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *The Royal Tenenbaums* (2001), as Tennis Match Commentator #1 (voice) (uncredited) · Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-royal-tenenbaums.md)
- *Rushmore* (1998), Director, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)
- *Bottle Rocket* (1996), Director, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md)
- *Bottle Rocket* (1993), Director, Screenplay
- *The Thing That Hurts*, Executive Producer
- *Untitled Wes Anderson Film*, Writer, Director, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Wes Anderson at the opening ceremenony of the Berlinale 2018](https://film.one/media/person/8459/gallery-fae7ab124e89.jpg) Wes Anderson at the opening ceremenony of the Berlinale 2018 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/MJK_08478_Wes_Anderson_%28Opening_Gala_Berlinale_2018%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_08478_Wes_Anderson_%28Opening_Gala_Berlinale_2018%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Film director Wes Anderson at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/8459/gallery-8699ddb5e62b.jpg) Film director Wes Anderson at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Wes_Anderson-7541_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Wes_Anderson-7541_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wes Anderson](https://film.one/media/person/8459/gallery-7252a65f98ea.jpg) Wes Anderson — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wes_Anderson-7541.jpg/1280px-Wes_Anderson-7541.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wes Anderson in Berlin 2005.](https://film.one/media/person/8459/gallery-c57f879e8ebe.jpg) Wes Anderson in Berlin 2005. — Popperipopp, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Wes_Anderson.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Wes Anderson](https://film.one/media/person/8459/gallery-a4e05d481f0c.jpg) Wes Anderson — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 7 nominated

- 2024: Best Live Action Short Film (won), for *The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar*
- 2019: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Isle of Dogs*
- 2015: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Grand Budapest Hotel*
- 2015: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Grand Budapest Hotel*
- 2015: Best Director (nominated), for *The Grand Budapest Hotel*
- 2013: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Moonrise Kingdom*
- 2010: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Fantastic Mr. Fox*
- 2002: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Royal Tenenbaums*

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

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