After being nominated eight instances over the many years, Wes Anderson lastly gained his first-ever Academy Award tonight on the 2024 Oscars. His brief movie The Great Story of Henry Sugar—a 39-minute adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1977 story of the identical identify—gained Finest Stay Motion Quick Movie, beating out The After, Invincible, Knight of Fortune, and Crimson, White and Blue. Anderson was not current to just accept the award in individual.
“Generally I’ve made brief movies which are genuinely my very own factor. They’re principally for enjoyable,” Anderson informed IndieWire final month. “Whereas once I’m making a movie-movie, I’m placing my entire life into it and it has a special gravity for me. However once in a while, I’ve carried out shorts the place they’re completely in the identical class because the function movies for me. These Roald Dahl ones are extra like a movie-movie for me, as a result of it’s one thing I’ve been eager about for thus lengthy.”
Again in 2001, Anderson acquired his first Academy Award nomination with The Royal Tenenbaums for Finest Unique Screenplay. Since then, he’s gotten nods for Finest Animated Image with Implausible Mr. Fox, Finest Unique Screenplay for Moonrise Kingdom, and Finest Animated Image for Isle of Canines. His most nominations got here in 2014 for The Grand Budapest Lodge, with Anderson getting nods for Finest Image, Finest Director, and Finest Unique Screenplay.
Whereas tonight’s The Great Story of Henry Sugar win is a primary for Anderson particularly, it’s not his first film to take dwelling an award. The Grand Budapest Lodge earned 4 Academy Awards on the 2014 Oscars for Finest Unique Rating (Alexandre Desplat), Finest Manufacturing Design (Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock), Finest Make-up and Hairstyling (Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier), and Finest Costume Design (Milena Canonero).
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