Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has been working on films with actor/writer Owen Wilson since the two met as students at the University of Texas in the early 1990s. Out of college, the two wrote and Anderson directed the comedy Bottle Rockets (first as a short, then as a feature in 1996), a quirky comedy that found a limited but enthusiastic audience. Anderson and Owen then reached a wider audience with Rushmore (1998, with Bill Murray) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, with Gwyneth Paltrow), and Anderson proved himself as a filmmaker with a distinctive style. Anderson's movies are neither epic nor flashy; he creates characters and tells stories of relationships with understated humor, earning him comparisons to filmmaker Woody Allen.