Wes Anderson filmography

Wes Anderson is an American filmmaker known for feature films, commercials, and short films.

Anderson directed the short film Bottle Rocket which was later adapted into his feature length directorial debut film Bottle Rocket (1996). He later directed his sophomore film Rushmore (1998), which established himself as a independent film auteur. He often collaborated with the brothers Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson during that time and founded his production company American Empirical Pictures. He further established his unique style with The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and his first stop-motion film, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

His later works include his second stop-motion film, Isle of Dogs (2018), the anthology comedy The French Dispatch (2021), the science fiction dramedy Asteroid City (2023) and the espionage caper comedy The Phoenician Scheme (2025). Anderson won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023).

As a director

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1996	Bottle Rocket	Yes	Yes	No
1998	Rushmore	Yes	Yes	Executive
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Yes	Yes	Yes
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Yes	Yes	Yes
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Yes	Yes	Yes
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Yes	Yes	Yes
2018	Isle of Dogs	Yes	Yes	Yes
2021	The French Dispatch	Yes	Yes	Yes
2023	Asteroid City	Yes	Yes	Yes
2024	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More^{[N 1]}	Yes	Yes	Yes
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Yes	Yes	Yes

Producer only

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Executive producer only

She's Funny That Way (2014)
Escapes (2017)
Uncropped (2023)

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1994	Bottle Rocket	Yes	Yes	No	Shot in 1992, released in 1994
2007	Hotel Chevalier	Yes	Yes	Yes	Prequel to The Darjeeling Limited
2012	Do You Like to Read?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Promotional shorts for Moonrise Kingdom
2012	Cousin Ben Troop Screening	Yes	Yes	No	Promotional shorts for Moonrise Kingdom
2013	Castello Cavalcanti	Yes	Yes	No	Commissioned by Prada
2023	Asteroid City: Location Featurette	Yes	Yes	Yes	Promotional short for Asteroid City
	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar	Yes	Yes	Yes	Netflix shorts based on stories by Roald Dahl
	The Swan	Yes	Yes	Yes
	The Rat Catcher	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Poison	Yes	Yes	Yes

Commercials

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Company	Notes
2004	"My Life, My Card"	Yes	Yes	American Express	Starring Wes Anderson as himself^[2]
2008	"Softbank"	Yes	No	Softbank	Japanese commercial filmed in France
2010	"Apartomatic"	Yes	No	Stella Artois	Co-directed with Roman Coppola
2012	"Made of Imagination"	Yes	No	Sony Xperia	Stop-motion animation
2013	"Candy"	Yes	No	Prada	Co-directed with Roman Coppola
2016	"Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion"	Yes	Yes	H&M	Starring Adrien Brody and Garth Jennings.
2024	"100 Years of Meisterstück"	Yes	Yes	Montblanc	Starring Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman and Rupert Friend.^[a]
2025	"Lets Write"	Yes	Yes	Montblanc	Starring Wes Anderson, Rupert Friend, Michael Cera, Waris Ahluwalia & Esther McGregor

Music Videos

Year	Title	Director	Artist	Notes
2021	"Aline"	Yes	Written by Christophe, performed by Jarvis Cocker	Promotional music video for The French Dispatch

As an actor

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Bottle Rocket	Passenger on bus	Uncredited cameo
1998	Rushmore	Student
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Tennis match commentator
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Stan Weasel	Voice role
2016	Sing	Additional Voices
2021	Sing 2	Additional Voices
2024	"100 Years of Meisterstück"

Documentary

Year	Title	Notes
2014	One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut
2018	Always at the Carlyle
2018	Friedkin Uncut
2023	Uncropped	Also executive producer

Reception

Year	Film	Rotten Tomatoes^[4]	Metacritic^[5]	Budget	Box office^[6]
1996	Bottle Rocket	86% (6.8/10 average rating) (68 reviews)	67 (24 reviews)	$7 million	$560,000
1998	Rushmore	90% (8.2/10 average rating) (105 reviews)	86 (32 reviews)	$9 million	$17.1 million
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	81% (7.5/10 average rating) (215 reviews)	76 (34 reviews)	$21 million	$71.4 million
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	57% (6.1/10 average rating) (226 reviews)	62 (38 reviews)	$50 million	$34.8 million
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	69% (6.6/10 average rating) (189 reviews)	67 (35 reviews)	$16 million	$35.1 million
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	93% (7.9/10 average rating) (246 reviews)	83 (34 reviews)	$40 million	$46.5 million
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	93% (8.3/10 average rating) (269 reviews)	84 (43 reviews)	$16 million	$68.3 million
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	92% (8.5/10 average rating) (318 reviews)	88 (48 reviews)	$25 million	$174.8 million
2018	Isle of Dogs	90% (8.0/10 average rating) (370 reviews)	82 (55 reviews)	$35 million	$64.2 million
2021	The French Dispatch	75% (7.1/10 average rating) (312 reviews)	74 (57 reviews)	$25 million	$46.3 million
2023	Asteroid City	75% (7/10 average rating) (338 reviews)	74 (60 reviews)	$25 million	$54 million
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	78% (279 reviews)	70 (53 reviews)	$30 million	$38 million

Frequent collaborators

Anderson's films feature many recurring actors, including the Wilson brothers (Owen, Luke, and Andrew), Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Bob Balaban, and Tilda Swinton.^[7]^[8] Robert Yeoman has served as director of photography for all of Anderson's live-action films, while Mark Mothersbaugh composed Anderson's first four films, with Alexandre Desplat with six films, taking over composing since Fantastic Mr. Fox.^[9] Randall Poster has served as music supervisor for all of Anderson's films since Rushmore. His films have often been financed by Steven Rales through his production company Indian Paintbrush.^[10]

Work Actor	1996	1998	2001	2004	2007	2009	2012	2014	2018	2021	2023	2024	2025	—
Work Actor	Bottle Rocket	Rushmore	Tenenbaums	Life Aquatic	Darjeeling	Mr. Fox	Moonrise	Grand Budapest	Isle of Dogs	French Dispatch	Asteroid City	Henry Sugar	Phoenician	Total
F. Murray Abraham														3
Waris Ahluwalia														3
Mathieu Amalric														3
Bob Balaban														5
Adrien Brody														5
Seymour Cassel														3
Jarvis Cocker														4
Bryan Cranston														3
Willem Dafoe														5
Rupert Friend														4
Jeff Goldblum														4
Anjelica Huston														5
Scarlett Johansson														3
Harvey Keitel														3
Frances McDormand														3
Bill Murray														10
Edward Norton														5
Larry Pine														5
Tony Revolori														3
Liev Schreiber														3
Jason Schwartzman														7
Fisher Stevens														5
Tilda Swinton														5
Andrew Wilson														3
Luke Wilson														3
Owen Wilson														7
Wallace Wolodarsky														5
Jeffrey Wright														3

Notes

^ Wes Anderson also announced that he designed his own pen for the company named the Schreiberling.^[3]

^ Compilation film of all four short film adaptations of Roald Dahl's stories that Anderson directed in 2023.^[1]

References

^ "Watch: Wes Anderson's 'Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More' anthology gets trailer - UPI.com". UPI. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
^ According to Matt Zoller Seitz, the author of The Wes Anderson Collection "24 Things I Learned Writing My Wes Anderson Book -- Vulture". Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
^ Binkley, Christina (1 May 2024). "Montblanc asked Wes Anderson to direct its ad. He did — and designed a pen". Vogue Business. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
^ "Wes Anderson". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
^ "Wes Anderson". Metacritic. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
^ "Wes Anderson". Boxofficemojo.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2004. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
^ Gottlieb, Meryl (March 21, 2018). "The actors who have appeared in the most Wes Anderson films — from Bill Murray to Owen Wilson". Retrieved August 4, 2021.
^ Munton, Rebecca (May 20, 2021). "10 Recurring Wes Anderson Collaborators Also In The French Dispatch". Retrieved August 4, 2021.
^ "Directors Trademarks: Wes Anderson". Cinelinx. June 1, 2018. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
^ Eisler, Kim (December 11, 2007). "What's a DC Billionaire Doing Aboard The Darjeeling Limited?". Washingtonian.com. Retrieved April 2, 2023.

External links

Wes Anderson at IMDb

[5] Wes Anderson also announced that he designed his own pen for the company named the Schreiberling.^[3]

[DahlCompilation-2] Compilation film of all four short film adaptations of Roald Dahl's stories that Anderson directed in 2023.^[1]

[1] "Watch: Wes Anderson's 'Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More' anthology gets trailer - UPI.com". UPI. Retrieved 2024-03-14.

[3] According to Matt Zoller Seitz, the author of The Wes Anderson Collection "24 Things I Learned Writing My Wes Anderson Book -- Vulture". Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. Retrieved 2013-12-27.

[4] Binkley, Christina (1 May 2024). "Montblanc asked Wes Anderson to direct its ad. He did — and designed a pen". Vogue Business. Retrieved 4 May 2024.

[6] "Wes Anderson". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

[7] "Wes Anderson". Metacritic. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

[8] "Wes Anderson". Boxofficemojo.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2004. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

[9] Gottlieb, Meryl (March 21, 2018). "The actors who have appeared in the most Wes Anderson films — from Bill Murray to Owen Wilson". Retrieved August 4, 2021.

[10] Munton, Rebecca (May 20, 2021). "10 Recurring Wes Anderson Collaborators Also In The French Dispatch". Retrieved August 4, 2021.

[11] "Directors Trademarks: Wes Anderson". Cinelinx. June 1, 2018. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2021.

[12] Eisler, Kim (December 11, 2007). "What's a DC Billionaire Doing Aboard The Darjeeling Limited?". Washingtonian.com. Retrieved April 2, 2023.

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v t e Films directed by Wes Anderson
Filmography Awards and nominations
Feature films	Bottle Rocket (1996) 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) Asteroid City (2023) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
Short films	Hotel Chevalier (2007) Castello Cavalcanti (2013) Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion (2016) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)