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 o...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
What Do You Know About Me
2009
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Love in Hollywood
1996
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
Lightning Over Water
1980
Why Are We Creative?
2018
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017
Alice in the Cities
1974
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006
The Salt of the Earth
2014
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
Along for the Ride
2016
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2005
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
Kings of the Road
1976
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
BAM150
2012
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
The American Friend
1977
CAN and Me
2022
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990
Talking with Ozu
1993
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022