Wim Wenders
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 14, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- Düsseldorf, Germany
Biography
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018). Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wim Wenders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography
Untitled Wim Wenders Science Fiction Film
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From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor
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The Keys to Freedom
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Perfect Days
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Some Body Comes Into the Light
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Anselm
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Présence
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Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
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Veränderung
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Submergence
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
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The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
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Every Thing Will Be Fine
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Cathedrals of Culture
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The Salt of the Earth
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The Berlin Philharmonic
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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Invisible World
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Ver ou Não Ver
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Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit
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Pina
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Il Volo
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If Buildings Could Talk
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Palermo Shooting
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Person to Person
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To Each His Own Cinema
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Invisibles
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Don't Come Knocking
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Land of Plenty
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The Soul of a Man
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The Blues
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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BAP - Ode to Cologne
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The Million Dollar Hotel
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Buena Vista Social Club
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Willie Nelson at the Teatro
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The End of Violence
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Lumière & Company
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A Trick of the Light
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Beyond the Clouds
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Lisbon Story
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Faraway, So Close!
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Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
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Until the End of the World
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
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Notebook on Cities and Clothes
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Wings of Desire
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Tokyo-Ga
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Room 666
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Paris, Texas
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The State of Things
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Hammett
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Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
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Cinéma cinémas
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Lightning Over Water
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The American Friend
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Kings of the Road
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Wrong Move
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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Alice in the Cities
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From the Family of Reptiles
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The Island
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Ein Haus für uns
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The Scarlet Letter
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Summer in the City
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3 American LPs
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Alabama (2000 Light Years)
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Polizeifilm
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Silver City Revisited
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Kaspar Hauser
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Same Player Shoots Again
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Klappenfilm
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Victor I.
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Schauplätze
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