Wim Wenders

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: Directing

Born: Düsseldorf, Germany, 1945-08-14

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Candy Man		0
2	1968	Love and So Forth	Student	0
3	1969	3 American LPs		50
4	1972	Summer in the City	Billardspieler (uncredited)	59
5	1974	Alice in the Cities	Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)	77
6	1975	Wrong Move	Man in Dining Car (uncredited)	68
7	1975	The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick	Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)	58
8	1976	Kings of the Road	Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)	75
9	1976	Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema	Self	0
10	1977	The American Friend	Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)	72
11	1978	Long Shot	Another Director	0
12	1978	Cinématon	N°212	43
13	1980	Lightning Over Water	Self	67
14	1982	The State of Things	Tram Passenger (uncredited)	65
15	1982	Room 666	Self	64
16	1982	Cinématon XXII	N°212	0
17	1982	Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982	Self	0
18	1983	Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act	Himself	0
19	1984	Tausend Augen	Dieb im Videoladen	50
20	1985	Report from Hollywood		0
21	1985	King Kongs Faust	Regisseur	0
22	1987	Helsinki Napoli All Night Long	Gas Station Attendant	57
23	1988	Alekan, la lumière	Self	0
24	1989	100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	68
25	1989	The Heart and the Legs	Self	0
26	1989	Notebook on Cities and Clothes	Self	66
27	1990	Pictures of Europe	Self	0
28	1990	Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'	Self	0
29	1990	Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders	Self	0
30	1990	Wim Wenders in Tokyo	Self	0
31	1991	Dream Island		0
32	1993	Without Me	Himself	0
33	1993	Talking with Ozu	Self	65
34	1993	Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring	Santa Claus	62
35	1994	Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait	Self	70
36	1994	Kleiner Mann ganz groß	Self	0
37	1995	The Night of the Filmmakers	Self	50
38	1995	To Make a Film Is to Be Alive	Self (uncredited)	0
39	1995	A Trick of the Light	Regisseur / Milchmann	57
40	1996	Love in Hollywood	Self	0
41	1997	Tango Berlin		0
42	1998	Alekan le magnifique	Self	0
43	2000	FreeDogme	himself	40
44	2000	The Million Dollar Hotel		59
45	2001	Janela da Alma	Self	69
46	2002	Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet	Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")	66
47	2002	Fassbinder in Hollywood	Self	59
48	2003	Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)	Self	50
49	2003	Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us	Self	83
50	2004	La torcedura		0
51	2004	Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments	Self	75
52	2004	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen	Self	68
53	2005	Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski	Self	85
54	2006	The Art of Football from A to Z	Self	48
55	2007	Cannes: All Access	Self	37
56	2008	One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years	Self	70
57	2008	Back to Room 666	Self	55
58	2008	Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers	Self	67
59	2008	Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years	Self	60
60	2008	Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte	Self	63
61	2008	Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada	Self	60
62	2009	What Do You Know About Me	Self	70
63	2010	Cronología		0
64	2010	Snowblind	Gray Fox	42
65	2011	Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland		0
66	2011	Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter	Self	55
67	2011	Viaggio in Bergmania	Self	70
68	2011	Zwischen den Zeiten		0
69	2011	Hitler in Hollywood	Wim Wenders	64
70	2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self	75
71	2012	BAM150	Self	0
72	2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)	90
73	2012	Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas	Self	70
74	2013	A Fuller Life	Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")	66
75	2013	Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction	Self	66
76	2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self	0
77	2014	The Salt of the Earth	Self	81
78	2015	Restoring Time	Self	0
79	2015	Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen	Self	70
80	2015	The Legend of the Palme d'Or	Self	60
81	2015	Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany	Self	0
82	2015	French Cinema Mon Amour	Self	5
83	2015	Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain	Self	0
84	2016	Three for the Road	Self	0
85	2016	Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider	Self	58
86	2016	Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life	Self	52
87	2016	Along for the Ride	Self	70
88	2017	The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov	Self	37
89	2017	Plankton Salesmen	Self (archive footage)	0
90	2018	Pope Francis: A Man of His Word	Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	70
91	2018	Living the Light: Robby Müller	Self	67
92	2018	Beyond the Bolex	Self	70
93	2019	Paul Auster: What If	Self - Filmmaker	60
94	2019	Zeroville	Larry	51
95	2020	Veränderung	Self	0
96	2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self	77
97	2020	Good Morning, the Wind Blows	Himself	0
98	2020	High Maintenance	Self	58
99	2021	A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner	Self	85
100	2021	Now	Self	88
101	2021	Why Are We (Not) Creative?	Self	60
102	2022	Everything Will Change		66
103	2022	Film: The Living Record of Our Memory	Self	86
104	2022	Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Wim Wenders	0
105	2022	From Our Side		55
106	2022	Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary	Lui-même	0
107	2022	CAN and Me	Self	60
108	2022	Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer	Self	79
109	2023	Cannes Uncut	Self	58
110	2023	Room 999	Self	58
111		Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders		0
112	2024	Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi Awards	Self	90
2	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
3	1966	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
4	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
5	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
6	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
7	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
8	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
9	1982	Wortwechsel	Self	0
10	1982	Menschen	Self	40
11	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	65
12	1987	live - die ZDF-talkshow	Self	0
13	1992	Riverboat	Self	55
14	1992	Morgenmagazin	Self	60
15	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
16	1997	Im Dialog	self	0
17	1997	Nachtstudio	Self	0
18	1998	Sabine Christiansen	Self	0
19	1998	Die Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	40
20	1998	Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show	Self	0
21	1999	Volle Kanne	Self	44
22	2003	ZIBB	Self	0
23	2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self	70
24	2004	Im Palais	Self	0
25	2004	Kulturplatz	Self	60
26	2007	Dickes B	Self	0
27	2010	Westpol: Eins zu eins	self	0
28	2011	Schawinski	Self	0
29	2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	Self	76
30	2018	Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?	Self	0
31	2020	Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen	Self	100
32	2023	German Genius	Wim Wenders	55
33	2023	Directors Talks	Self	0