Wim Wenders
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
153
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
ZIBB
Volle Kanne
Morgenmagazin
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Kulturplatz
NDR Talk Show
Midi Première
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Riverboat
Bambi
Nachtcafé
Nachtstudio
Spécial cinéma
Westpol: Eins zu eins
Wortwechsel
Kölner Treff
Sabine Christiansen
Im Dialog
German Film Award
Schawinski
Menschen
Im Palais
Goldene Kamera
Bavarian Film Awards
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Hitler in Hollywood
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Tausend Augen
live - die ZDF-talkshow
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Henri Langlois vu par...
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Dickes B
Janela da Alma
Zeroville
Long Shot
Back to Room 666
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Talking with Ozu
Why Are We Creative?
Leçon de Cinéma
Candy Man
Beyond the Bolex
La torcedura
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
Kings of the Road
Report from Hollywood
The American Friend
Room 999
Room 666
The State of Things
German Genius
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Close Up
Without Me
The Night of the Filmmakers
The Million Dollar Hotel
Alice in the Cities
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Summer in the City
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off
A Trick of the Light
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Cinématon XXII
The Salt of the Earth
Cinématon
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Wrong Move
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
The Ozu Diaries
The Art of Football from A to Z
Cannes Uncut
A Fuller Life
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Love in Hollywood
Living the Light: Robby Müller
Directors Talks
Plankton Salesmen
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Snowblind
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Pictures of Europe
King Kongs Faust
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Now
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Lightning Over Water
Along for the Ride
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Alekan le magnifique
The Heart and the Legs
What Do You Know About Me
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Love and So Forth
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Cronología
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Cannes: All Access
French Cinema Mon Amour
Paul Auster: What If
Die 2050er - Everything will change
Tango Berlin
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Films to Die For
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
The Keys to Freedom
Viaggio in Bergmania
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Zwischen den Zeiten
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
A Weekend at the Beach
High Maintenance
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Three for the Road
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
BAM150
Restoring Time
3 American LPs
FreeDogme
Alekan, la lumière
Dream Island
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
From Our Side
Veränderung
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
CAN and Me
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
