Wim Wenders
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
155
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-08-14 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Wim Wenders
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
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Bambi
ZIBB
Morgenmagazin
NDR Talk Show
Volle Kanne
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Nachtcafé
What Do You Know About Me
Riverboat
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Kölner Treff
Midi Première
Spécial cinéma
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Im Dialog
Goldene Kamera
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
German Film Award
Sabine Christiansen
Bavarian Film Awards
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Nachtstudio
Kulturplatz
Room 666
Westpol: Eins zu eins
Wortwechsel
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Room 999
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Cinématon XXII
Wrong Move
Tausend Augen
Long Shot
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Zeroville
Plankton Salesmen
Cannes Uncut
Without Me
The Salt of the Earth
Schawinski
Alice in the Cities
Menschen
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Die 2050er - Everything will change
Leçon de Cinéma
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Im Palais
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Kings of the Road
La torcedura
Dickes B
The Night of the Filmmakers
The State of Things
Now
The Million Dollar Hotel
German Genius
Snowblind
Why Are We Creative?
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Films to Die For
Janela da Alma
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Summer in the City
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
Back to Room 666
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Henri Langlois vu par...
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Talking with Ozu
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Hitler in Hollywood
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Love in Hollywood
Lightning Over Water
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
King Kongs Faust
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Living the Light: Robby Müller
A Fuller Life
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Along for the Ride
Beyond the Bolex
The American Friend
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Directors Talks
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
The Heart and the Legs
The Ozu Diaries
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Pictures of Europe
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
live - die ZDF-talkshow
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Love and So Forth
3 American LPs
French Cinema Mon Amour
Alekan le magnifique
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
A Trick of the Light
Cronología
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
Close Up
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
The Art of Football from A to Z
A Weekend at the Beach
Cinématon
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
Filmstudio, mon amour
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Cannes: All Access
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
High Maintenance
Paul Auster: What If
Black Baby
The Keys to Freedom
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
BAM150
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
Tango Berlin
Three for the Road
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Viaggio in Bergmania
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
Restoring Time
FreeDogme
CAN and Me
Report from Hollywood
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Candy Man
Alekan, la lumière
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
Zwischen den Zeiten
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
From Our Side
Veränderung
Dream Island
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
