# Wim Wenders

> He turned wandering into a cinematic language - empty highways, drifters in transit, cities at twilight - and made the road movie something closer to philosophy than genre.

*German filmmaker (born 1945)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1945-08-14
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Wilhelm Ernst Wenders on 14 August 1945, he emerged as a major figure of New German Cinema with his feature debut Summer in the City in 1970. He built his reputation on a trilogy of drifter films - Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976) - that mapped loneliness across Europe's margins. Paris, Texas (1984) won him the Palme d'Or and a BAFTA, then Wings of Desire (1987) took Cannes Best Director for its angels watching over a divided Berlin. His documentary work earned three Oscar nominations: Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He served as president of the European Film Academy from 1996 to 2020 and continues to shoot photographs of desolate landscapes between films.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 65.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 28.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 13.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #82
- **Category rank:** #74

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000694/ (@nm0000694)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.wim-wenders.com/

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Movies, #Photography, #Screenwriting, #Film Directing, #Germany

## Timeline
- **2026** - German Film Honorary Award
- **2015** - Honorary Golden Bear
- **2014** - Un certain regard Award
- **2008** - Goya Award for Best Documentary Film
- **2004** - Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
- **1993** - Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- **1987** - Cannes Best Director Award
- **1976** - FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes
- **1974** - Alice in the Cities
- **1945** - Born

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