"The Grand Budapest Hotel," a caper set in and around a posh hotel in the fictional Alpine nation of Zubrowka, represents Desplat's third collaboration with Anderson, while the Alan Turing drama "The Imitation Game" marked the composer's first time working with Tyldum.
Director Wes Anderson also cast her in several of his movies, including the coming-of-age comedy Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and the arch caper The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
Wes Anderson's mid-century caper The Grand Budapest Hotel won Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), while its rival in the category, Birdman, was named Best Screenplay.
His comedic talents were on display in Wes Anderson's caper The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), in which he portrayed a renowned concierge wrongfully accused of murder, and in the Coen brothers' Hollywood farce Hail, Caesar! (2016), which saw him evincing the struggles of a beleaguered film director.
Inarritu, 51, prevailed over four other nominees: two-time DGA best feature director winner Clint Eastwood for Iraq war drama American Sniper, Richard Linklater for coming-of-age tale Boyhood, Morten Tyldum for British World War Two story The Imitation Game and Wes Anderson for colorful caper The Grand Budapest Hotel.
London-set caper Gambit this weekend is bursting with plugs for the Savoy hotel – no location fee, I'd wager – Co-op Bank, Rolls-Royce, Bollinger, Monocle Magazine and much more.
On Friday he will sit down with Leonard Maltin for a conversation at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and later that evening he'll be on hand for the screening of the 1969 caper flick "The Italian Job," which features one of his most haunting songs, "On Days Like These," which he wrote with lyricist Don Black.
In fact, She's Funny That Way feels like one of Woody Allen's recent luxury-tourist European capers, and bathed in the orangey-yellow light that suffuses a certain kind of old-fashioned hotel lobby.
