The academy owes Wes Anderson. Quite a bit. The idiosyncratic writer/director has been nominated for six Oscars to date but has yet to win. That could change this year as his stop-motion “Isle of Dogs” is a strong contender for Best Animated Feature. As with his past films, it is uniquely his and is recognizable immediately for his signature style.
His first Oscar nomination was back in 2002 for co-writing the original screenplay of “The Royal Tenenbaums” with Owen Wilson; they he lost to Julian Fellowes’ “Gosford Park.” He and “Moonrise Kingdom” co-writer Roman Coppola lost the Best Original Screenplay race in 2013 to Quentin Tarantino and “Django Unchained.”
In between those two losses, he contended for his first animated film, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” which lost the Oscar to the Pixar pic “Up” in 2010.
Predict the Oscar nominees now; change them until January 22
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His first Oscar nomination was back in 2002 for co-writing the original screenplay of “The Royal Tenenbaums” with Owen Wilson; they he lost to Julian Fellowes’ “Gosford Park.” He and “Moonrise Kingdom” co-writer Roman Coppola lost the Best Original Screenplay race in 2013 to Quentin Tarantino and “Django Unchained.”
In between those two losses, he contended for his first animated film, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” which lost the Oscar to the Pixar pic “Up” in 2010.
Predict the Oscar nominees now; change them until January 22
In 2015, Anderson reaped three bids for “The Grand Budapest Hotel...
- 1/17/2019
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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