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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Gatekeeper Strong in semis, fades in finals
2014 · Comedy, Drama · Wes Anderson

60% overall is a strong record. The gatekeeper pattern means The Grand Budapest Hotel dispatches most opponents comfortably — it just consistently runs into a wall when the bracket reaches the final. Anderson's most acclaimed and most polarizing work, where the aesthetic itself becomes the ballot question. Voters either find the precision irresistible or suffocating — there is no middle ground, and that binary makes every matchup decisive.

Synopsis

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Round 1
64.9%
61/94
Semifinals
70.5%
Where it thrives
Finals
34.9%
The ceiling

Competitive at every stage — 65% opening, 71% semis, 35% finals — but the decline is real. The Grand Budapest Hotel loses ground when the field narrows to the best.

On the other end of the spectrum: Rushmore at 88% is a comfortable win, while Interstellar at 28% is the matchup The Grand Budapest Hotel can't crack.

The path through Best of Wes Anderson always ends the same way for The Grand Budapest Hotel: a final against Fantastic Mr. Fox, a 70% loss rate. So close and so consistent.

Near the top of Wes Anderson's 8-film lineup on BingeBracket. Fantastic Mr. Fox at 70% is the benchmark; The Grand Budapest Hotel at #2 isn't far behind.

BingeBracket Record
60%
Win Rate
#14 of 69 in Comedy #10 of 54 from the 2010s #2 of 8 Wes Anderson films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
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Ranked #1 in Best of Wes Anderson.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel #1
Fantastic Mr. Fox #2
The Royal Tenenbaums #3
Moonrise Kingdom #4
Isle of Dogs #5
Rushmore #6
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou #7
Asteroid City #8
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