Wes Anderson Filmography

Born:: May 1, 1969 in Houston, TX
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Wesley Wales Anderson
Biography:: Bolstered by the support of veteran director James L. Brooks and producer Polly Platt, Wes Anderson attained a status in the late 1990s that most young filmmakers only dream of achieving -- he proved that he could work within the Hollywood studio system and still create distinctive, willfully...Read More

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray Read More

11/6/09
The Darjeeling Limited

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky

Synopsis: Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as three brothers who, at the insistence of the oldest, take a train ride through India together in order to strengthen their bond. Even though the vacation goes wrong in ways they do not anticipate, the Read More

9/29/07
Hotel Chevalier

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman

2007
The Squid and the Whale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin

Synopsis: Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun Read More

10/5/05
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

12/10/04
The Royal Tenenbaums

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

12/14/01
Rushmore

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox

Synopsis: After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric Read More

12/11/98
Bottle Rocket

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, James Caan

Synopsis: A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson Read More

1996