General info : | | Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945, Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Germany) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.
Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture, Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
One of Wenders' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered to be an auteur director. | |
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Relations : | | Married to : Lisa Kreuzerm. 1974 - div. 1978 | |
Relations : | | Married to : Ronee Blakleym. 1979 - div. 1981 | |
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Relations : | | Married to : Isabelle Weingarten- div. 1982 | |
Relations : | Married to : Lisa Kreuzer- div. 1982 | Married to : Lisa Kreuzer- div. 1983 | |
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General info : | Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945, Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Germany) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.
Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture, Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
One of Wenders' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered to be an auteur director. | Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945, Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Germany) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer.
He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture; Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch; and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
One of Wenders's earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which he won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director.
Wenders lives and works in Berlin with his wife, Donata. He has lived in Berlin since the mid-1970s. | |
Image | | Wim_Wenders_(Berlinale_2017).jpg | |
Video | | Conversations @ Curzon | Wim Wenders reflects on his career with Anna Bogutskaya | |
Video | | Paris, Texas - 2001 Interview With Wim Wenders | |
Video | | Wim Wenders on Wings of Desire | BFI Q&A | |
Relations : | Married to : Lisa Kreuzer- div. 1983 | Married to : Lisa Kreuzerm. 1979 - div. 1983 | |
Relations : | Married to : Lisa Kreuzerm. 1979 - div. 1983 | Married to : Lisa Kreuzerm. 1981 - div. 1983 | |