By Ann Hornaday, The Washington PostDirector Wes Anderson arrives to the photo call for the film 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' during the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023.
Over the past 22 years, Wes Anderson has been nominated for eight Oscars; when he finally won on Sunday night, it was for the 39-minute live-action short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” For Anderson’s fans - and they are legion - the fact that one of cinema’s most inventive and popular auteurs won his first Academy Award for a short film will probably be greeted with bewilderment if not outrage. He was overlooked for such classics as “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Moonrise Kingdom,” but he finally wins for aSeen through another lens - more precisely, the jeweler’s loupe through which Anderson habitually reframes the world - the recognition couldn’t be more apt.
Now, with a live-action short film Oscar on his impeccably curated mantel, Anderson becomes part of a proud Hollywood lineage that reaches back to the one-reelers of Mack Sennet and Hal Roach, not to mention more recent winners such as Andrea Arnold, Martin McDonagh and Riz Ahmed. Perhaps more meaningfully, Anderson shares an honor that has historically been associated with students and emerging filmmakers rather than jaundiced pros. That feels on-point, too.
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