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.
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Filmography
all 251
Movies 218
self 106
Director 61
Producer 44
TV Shows 33
Writer 1
Screenplay 1
An Endless Sunday (2024)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (2023)
Perfect Days (2023)
Somebody Comes into the Light (2023)
Anselm (2023)
Room 999 (2023)
Songs of the Earth (2023)
Cannes Uncut (2023)
German Genius (2023)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
CAN and Me (2022)
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary (2022)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
In quanto a noi (2022)
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (2022)
Everything Will Change (2022)
Roving Woman (2022)
TWIST (2021)
Why Are We (Not) Creative? (2021)
Souad (2021)
Now (2021)
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2021)
A Future Together (2021)
Reality Winner (2021)
High Maintenance (2020)
Buongiorno, tira il vento (2020)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2020)
A Black Jesus (2020)
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Veränderung (2020)
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper (2020)
Zeroville (2019)
Waiting for the Miracle to Come (2019)
Paul Auster: What If (2019)
Beyond the Bolex (2018)
Living the Light: Robby Müller (2018)
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? (2018)
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story (2018)
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)
Little Hands (2018)
Jil Sander: Spring/Summer 2018 Campaign (2017)
Plankton Salesmen (2017)
Submergence (2017)
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017)
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017)
Peter Lindbergh - The Eye (2016)
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
Along for the Ride (2016)
National Bird (2016)
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life (2016)
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider (2016)
Three for the Road (2016)
Our Last Tango (2015)
French Cinema Mon Amour (2015)
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015)
The Legend of the Palme d'Or (2015)
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen (2015)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
Restoring Time (2015)
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison (2014)
Magnum - Feiere den Moment (2014)
The Berlin Philharmonic (2014)
Le cinéma fait le Mur (2014)
A Fuller Life (2013)
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2013)
Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico (2013)
Ver ou Não Ver (2012)
Invisible World (2012)
Stories We Tell (2012)
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas (2012)
Close Up (2012)
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012)
Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit (2012)
BAM150 (2012)
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Schawinski (2011)
Hitler in Hollywood (2011)
Zwischen den Zeiten (2011)
Viaggio in Bergmania (2011)
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter (2011)
Pina (2011)
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland (2011)
Snowblind (2010)
If Buildings Could Talk (2010)
Cronología (2010)
Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Il Volo (2010)
Westpol: Eins zu eins (2010)
What Do You Know About Me (2009)
Passage (2009)
The Open Road (2009)
Palermo Shooting (2008)
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada (2008)
Person to Person (2008)
8 (2008)
The Clone Returns Home (2008)
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years (2008)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)
Back to Room 666 (2008)
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years (2008)
Dickes B (2007)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Cannes: All Access (2007)
War in Peace (2007)
Invisibles (2007)
Invisible Crimes (2007)
The House Is Burning (2006)
The Art of Football from A to Z (2006)
DocTalk (2006)
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (2005)
Egoshooter (2005)
Land of Plenty (2004)
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)
Música Cubana (2004)
Im Palais (2004)
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments (2004)
Leçon de Cinéma (2004)
Half the Rent (2004)
La torcedura (2004)
The Blues (2003)
Narren (2003)
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003)
The Soul of a Man (2003)
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) (2003)
The Other Side of the Road (2003)
Fools (2003)
June Moon (2002)
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Three Days of Rain (2002)
BAP - Viel Passiert (2002)
Janela da Alma (2001)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)
Un matin partout dans le monde (2000)
FreeDogme (2000)
Volle Kanne (1999)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Alekan le magnifique (1998)
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show (1998)
City of Angels (1998)
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (1998)
Sabine Christiansen (1998)
Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998)
Nachtstudio (1997)
The End of Violence (1997)
Go for Gold! (1997)
Im Dialog (1997)
Tango Berlin (1997)
Love in Hollywood (1996)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995)
A Trick of the Light (1995)
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Kleiner Mann ganz groß (1994)
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait (1994)
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring (1993)
Talking with Ozu (1993)
Adamski (1993)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Without Me (1993)
The Absence (1993)
Riverboat (1992)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Dream Island (1991)
Wim Wenders in Tokyo (1990)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990)
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990)
Picture of Europe (1990)
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' (1990)
Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
The Heart and the Legs (1989)
Alekan, la lumière (1988)
Chocolat (1988)
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund (1987)
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Iron Earth, Copper Sky (1987)
live - die ZDF-talkshow (1987)
Nachtcafé (1987)
I Played It for You (1985)
King Kongs Faust (1985)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
Report from Hollywood (1985)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Tausend Augen (1984)
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act (1983)
Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982)
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 (1982)
Hammett (1982)
Cinématon XXII (1982)
Room 666 (1982)
The State of Things (1982)
Cinéma cinémas (1982)
Menschen (1982)
Wortwechsel (1982)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Lightning Over Water (1980)
Bayerischer Filmpreis (1979)
Radio On (1979)
...als Diesel geboren (1979)
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre (1979)
NDR Talk Show (1979)
Cinématon (1978)
Long Shot (1978)
The Left-Handed Woman (1977)
The American Friend (1977)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
Kings of the Road (1976)
Kölner Treff (1976)
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1975)
Wrong Move (1975)
Midi Première (1975)
Ein bißchen Liebe (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
From the Family of Reptiles (1974)
The Island (1974)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Ein Haus für uns (1974)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Summer in the City (1971)
3 American LPs (1969)
Polizeifilm (1969)
Kaspar Hauser (1969)
Ten Years After (1969)
Am Spätnachmittag des folgenden Tages erwachte Joe in einem billigen Hotelzimmer - Andy schläft noch ... (1969)
Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei (1969)
Der Fall Lena Christ (1969)
Silver City Revisited (1969)
Alabama (2000 Light Years) (1969)
Same Player Shoots Again (1968)
Love and So Forth (1968)
Candy Man (1968)
Victor I. (1968)
Klappenfilm (1968)
Schauplätze (1967)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)
Bambi Awards (1948)
Return to Timbuktu
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
Sound of Ice
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1945-08-14 (78 years old)
Birth NameErnst Wilhelm Wenders
Birth PlaceDüsseldorf, Germany
RelationshipsRonee Blakley (1979-01-01 - 1981-01-01), Lisa Kreuzer (1974-01-01 - 1978-01-01), Edda Köchl-König (1968-01-01 - 1974-01-01), Isabelle Weingarten (1981-01-01 - 1982-01-01)
SpouseDonata Wenders
CitizenshipsGermany
Also Known As Vimu Vendâsu, 文溫德斯, 빔 벤더스, Вим Вендерс, Вім Вендерс
AwardsGolden Lion, Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia, Honorary Golden Bear, Palme d'Or, Un certain regard Award, Herbert Strate Award, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Robert-Bresson Award, François Chalais Prize, FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes, Goya Award for Best Documentary Film, Golden Medal for Merit to Culture, Prix OCIC du Festival de Cannes, Commander of the Order of Merit of Portugal, Helmut Käutner Prize, European Film Award for Best Director, European Film Award for Best Documentary, Ring of Honour of the city Wuppertal, Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, César Award for Best Documentary Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Silver Bear, Leopard of Honour, Cannes Best Director Award
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