Wes Anderson, the quirky visionary from Texas, has finally scored an Oscar after several near-misses, claiming the title for Best Live Action Short Film with "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar." Despite a career studded with nominations, this marks Anderson's first personal victory at the Academy Awards.

Anderson, a native of Houston, was notable in his absence at the Sunday night's awards ceremony in Los Angeles, despite being the frontrunner in the category. The film, adapted from Roald Dahl's short story, managed to triumph over competitors "The After," "Invincible," "Knight of Fortune", and "Red, White and Blue." According to KENS5, Anderson's win put an end to a curious drought for Texas-based directors at the Oscars.

The film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and employs an unusual narrative technique of addressing the audience directly, was one part of a quintet of Roald Dahl adaptation shorts ushered to the screen by Anderson for Netflix. The director's long-standing love affair with Dahl's works seems to have finally paid off with this golden statuette.

Previously, Anderson garnered critical and Academy accolades for films like "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel." Though the latter earned four technical Oscars, Anderson had not personally taken one home until now. “Sometimes I’ve made short films that are genuinely my own thing. They’re basically for fun,” Anderson told IndieWire last month. "Whereas when I’m making a movie-movie, I’m putting my whole life into it and it has a different gravity for me. But every now and then, I’ve done shorts where they’re totally in the same category as the feature films for me. These Roald Dahl ones are more like a movie-movie for me, because it’s something I’ve been thinking about for so long."

The Oscars nod for "Henry Sugar" comes after a spate of nominations in an array of categories for Anderson's past work, including Best Animated Picture for "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Isle of Dogs," and a host of nominations for the unmistakably stylized "The Grand Budapest Hotel." Yet, the Best Live Action Short Film win is a unique notch on his belt – and poignant, given that it came for a project that seemed to hold a deeper significance for the director. It is a reminder that sometimes, the biggest rewards come in the smallest packages – even for a filmmaker as grandiose as Wes Anderson.