So the National Board of Review honored Wes Anderson, director of Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and most recently The Fantastic Mr. Fox, with a Special Filmmaking Achievement award for Mr. Fox. Previous recipients have included Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby and Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings, among others. Rather than accept the award live, Anderson accepted via a stop-motion animated film of himself depicted as an animal (a brown fox, I presume? commenter Dominique nails it: a weasel). Wow.
(Via Kottke.org.)
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He’s an otter. He says something like “What an otter this i.”
posted by tonberry2k on 1-28-2010 at 1:48 pm
It sounds to me like he’s saying “honor,” though?
posted by Chris Higgins on 1-28-2010 at 1:51 pm
It’s his character in “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.” He plays, I believe, a weasel. Fitting, since his character is also a real estate agent in the film.
posted by Dominique on 1-28-2010 at 2:03 pm