Wes Anderson Articles

Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education, Nick Hornby Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Other possibilities: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, In the Loop; Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia; Anthony [...]

Best Animated Feature Pete Docter's Up Peter Docter's Up should take the Golden Globe for best animated feature. It's a huge box-office success that has been greeted by some of the best reviews of the year. Although Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox has its fans and has won a number of awards from film critics' groups, it doesn't really stand much of a chance here. [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Up in the Air is the #1 winner among North American critics groups, with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds coming in second place. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's (500) Days of Summer, a boy meets girl tale in which things don't quite go as planned, [...]

Pete Docter's Up (Disney / Pixar) (top); Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures) (bottom) Although Pete Docter's Up was expected to have the animation year-end awards field all to itself, it ultimately had to face tough competition from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, which features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman, among others. Up has won awards from at [...]