Wim Wenders

German filmmaker (born 1945)

Wim Wenders

Wenders in 2024

Born|

Ernst Wilhelm Wenders

(1945-08-14) 14 August 1945 (age 79)

Düsseldorf, Germany

Occupations|

* Film director
* screenwriter
* producer
* photographer
* author

Years active| 1967–present
Spouses|

Edda Köchl

(m. 1968; div. 1974)​

Lisa Kreuzer

(m. 1974; div. 1978)​

Ronee Blakley

(m. 1979; div. 1981)​

Isabelle Weingarten

(m. 1981; div. 1982)​

Donata Wenders

(m. 1993)​

Awards| Full list
Website| www.wim-wenders.com

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer, who is a major figure in New German Cinema.[1] 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 four 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).[2][3]

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), Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018), and Anselm (2023).

Wenders formerly served as the president of the European Film Academy from 1996–2020. He also earned an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes.[4][5] He is considered an auteur director.[6]

## Early life and education

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Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditionally Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. The Dutch name "Wim" is a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm". As a boy, Wenders took unaccompanied trips to Amsterdam to visit the Rijksmuseum. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (1963–64) and philosophy at the University of Dusseldorf (1964–65), but dropped out and moved to Paris in October 1966 in order to become a painter.[7] He failed his entry test at France's national film school, IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver at Johnny Friedlaender's studio in Montparnasse.[7] During this time he became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

Set on making his obsession his life's work, he returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists. That fall, he entered the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).[7] Between 1967 and 1970, while at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic for FilmKritik, the Munich daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel.[7]

Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a 16mm black-and-white film, Summer in the City (1970), his feature directorial debut.

## Career

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### 1970–1976: Film debut and early work

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Wenders's career began in the late 1960s, the New German Cinema era.[8] Much of the distinctive cinematography in his movies is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller.[9][10][11][12] Wenders made his directorial film debut with Summer in the City (1970), his graduation project at the University of Television and Film Munich, which he attended from 1967 to 1970. Shot in 16 mm black-and-white by Müller, the movie exhibited many of Wenders's later trademark themes of aimless searching, running from invisible demons, and persistent wandering toward an indeterminate goal. Protagonist Hans (Zischler) is released from prison, and after searching through seedy West German streets and bars, he visits an old friend in Berlin.[citation needed]

Wenders then directed The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, titled The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick in the United States. The film was adapted from Peter Handke's 1970 short novel. He then directed the period drama The Scarlet Letter (1973), adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel of the same name. From 1974 to 1976 Wender directed the Road Movie trilogy. The first film in the trilogy was Alice in the Cities (1974), which was shot in 16mm. The last two films are The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976), the latter of which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.[citation needed]

### 1977–1987: Breakthrough and acclaim

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Wenders with Carrie Fisher in 1978

In 1977 Wenders gained prominence for directing the neo-noir The American Friend, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. The film is adapted from the Patricia Highsmith 1974 novel Ripley's Game. J. Hoberman of The New York Times has compared the film to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, writing, "Like Taxi Driver, The American Friend was a new sort of movie-movie—sleekly brooding, voluptuously alienated and saturated with cinephilia."[13]

Wenders earned critical acclaim for his road drama Paris, Texas (1984), starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell. The film premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of the film, "[it's] a movie with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common fifteen years ago than it is now. It has more links with films like Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy than with the slick arcade games that are the box-office winners of the 1980s. It is true, deep, and brilliant".[14]

Wenders then directed the romance fantasy Wings of Desire (1987), starring Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk. It premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where Wenders won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. Peter Handke co-wrote the screenplay. West Germany submitted Wings of Desire for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a bid supported by its distribution company. It was not nominated; the academy seldom recognized West German cinema.[15] The film was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, with many critics adding it on their top 10 lists.

### 1991–2010: Career fluctuations

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Wenders at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

In 1991 Wenders directed the science fiction adventure drama Until the End of the World, starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Max Von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau. The film has been released in several editions, ranging in length from 158 to 287 minutes, with the longer versions receiving mixed reviews. In 1993 he directed Faraway, So Close!, a sequel to Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk reprised their roles as angels who have become human. The film also stars Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe and Heinz Rühmann, in his last film role. It received critical acclaim, premiering at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it earned the Grand Prix. The next year, he directed Lisbon Story, which screened at Un Certain Regard at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995 he directed both A Trick of Light and the anthology film Lumière and Company.

In 1997, Wenders directed the American drama film The End of Violence, starring Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, and Gabriel Byrne. The film received negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office after its debut at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Like many other of Wenders's American movies, it was shot in multiple locations, including the Griffith Observatory and the Santa Monica Pier. Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, including Willie Nelson at the Teatro, a documentary about the recording sessions of Teatro (1998). The next year he directed Buena Vista Social Club, about the music of Cuba. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2002, he directed a documentary about the German rock group BAP called Vill passiert (A lot has happened).

### 2011–present: Resurgence with documentaries

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Wenders in 2008

Wenders has directed music videos for groups such as U2 and Talking Heads, including "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and "Sax and Violins".[citation needed] His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer.[citation needed] Wenders's book Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written as a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatized by Neil Cargill.

Wenders also directed a documentary-style film on the Skladanowsky brothers, known in English as A Trick of the Light.[16] The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing "moving pictures" when several others like the Lumière brothers and William Friese-Greene were doing the same. In 2011, Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival.[17][18] The project fell through when he insisted on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.[19] In 2012, while promoting his 3-D dance film Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture.[20] He also said he would only work in 3-D from then on.[21] Wenders had admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.[22]

In 2015, Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders – Visions on Film. Porter died before it was finished, and the film remains incomplete.[23][24] Wenders is a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation. The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aims to find and reconstruct world cinema films that have been neglected. As of 2015 he served as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals.[25]

Wenders with wife Donata at Berlinale 2017

In June 2017, Wenders stage-directed Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles, starring Olga Peretyatko and Francesco Demuro and conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper). In a 2018 interview, he said his favorite movie of all time was his film about Pope Francis, and that his entire career had been building up to it. His admiration for Francis is profound; he said he felt Francis is doing his best in a world full of calamities. He also said that, though raised Catholic, he had converted to Protestantism years earlier.[26]

In 2019 Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary A Black Jesus, which has similar themes to Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. The film explores the role of religion in communal identity and how this can create or dissolve differences in a small Sicilian town during the height of the refugee crisis.[27] Lucchesi noted that Wenders pushed the film to be more symbolic and philosophical, saying that Wenders wanted the film to have a "universal fairy-tale aspect" and to represent "Europe in a nutshell".[28]

In 2025, Wenders made a short film called "The Keys to Freedom" in Reims, France. In the film, Wenders tours the Museum of the Surrender, where General Eisenhower gave the liberated city's keys to the mayor in 1945, and comments "These are the keys to the freedom of the world". Wenders told The New York Times that Europeans can no longer assume American protection, adding that young people take freedom for granted, not realizing they may soon need to defend it.[29]

## Photography

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Wenders has worked with photographic images of desolate landscapes and themes of memory, time, loss, nostalgia and movement.[4][5] He began his long-running project "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" in the early 1980s and pursued it for 20 years. The initial photographic series was titled "Written in the West" and was produced while Wenders criss-crossed the American West in preparation for his film Paris, Texas (1984).[7] It became the starting point for a nomadic journey across the globe, including Germany, Australia, Cuba, Israel and Japan, to take photographs capturing the essence of a moment, place or space.[30]

## Personal life

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Wenders lives and works in Berlin with his wife, Donata.[7] He has lived in Berlin since the mid-1970s.[31] He is an ecumenical Christian; as a teenager he wished to become a Catholic priest.[32] He supports German football club Borussia Dortmund.[33]

In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely" and argued that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door to "actions of which no-one can know the effects."[34][35]

From 1979 to 1981, Wenders was married to the American actress and singer-songwriter Ronee Blakley.

## Filmography

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### Film

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Short film

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1967  | Scenary' | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also cinematographer and editor
1968  | Same Player Shoots Again | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Blurb Film | Yes  | No  | No  | Co-directed with Gerhard Theuring
Victor I. | Yes  | No  | No  |
1969  | Alabama (2000 Light Years) | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Also editor and sound
1992  | Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
1995  | Segment 38 | Yes  | No  | No  | Segment of Lumière et compagnie
2002  | Twelve Miles to Trona | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment from Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2003  | Other Side of the Road | Yes  | No  | No  |
2007  | War in Peace | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment of To Each His Own Cinema
2008  | Person to Person | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment of 8
2012  | Ver ou Não Ver | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment of Mundo Invisível
2010  | If Buildings Could Talk | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2015  | Two or Three Thoughts on Edward Hopper | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also executive producer
2019  | (E)motion | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |

Feature film

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer

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1970  | Summer in the City | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1972  | The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1973  | The Scarlet Letter | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1974  | Alice in the Cities | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1975  | The Wrong Move | Yes  | No  | Uncredited
1976  | Kings of the Road | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1977  | The American Friend | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1982  | Hammett | Yes  | No  | No
The State of Things | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1984  | Paris, Texas | Yes  | No  | No
1987  | Wings of Desire | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1991  | Until the End of the World | Yes  | Yes  | Co-producer
1993  | Faraway, So Close! | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1994  | Lisbon Story | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1995  | Beyond the Clouds | Partial[a] | Yes  | No
1997  | The End of Violence | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
2000  | The Million Dollar Hotel | Yes  | No  | Yes
2004  | Land of Plenty | Yes  | Yes  | No
2005  | Don't Come Knocking | Yes  | Yes  | Executive[b]
2008  | Palermo Shooting | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
2015  | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Yes  | No  | No
2016  | The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez | Yes  | Yes  | No
2017  | Submergence | Yes  | No  | No
2023  | Perfect Days | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

Producer only

* The Left-Handed Woman (1977)[citation needed]
* Radio On (1979) (Associate producer)
* ...als diesel geboren[36] (1979)
* Iron Earth, Copper Sky (1987)
* The Absence (1992) (Co-producer)
* Go for Gold![37][38][39][40] (1997)
* Half the Rent (2002)
* Junimond (2002)
* Fools (2003)
* Egoshooter (2004)
* A Black Jesus[41] (2018)
* Souad (2021) (Co-producer)
* An Endless Sunday[42] (2023)

Executive producer only

* La torcedura (2004)
* Música cubana[43][44] (2004)
* The House Is Burning (2006)
* The Clone Returns Home (2008)
* The Open Road (2009)
* Au Revoir, Taipei (2010)
* Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2012)
* Our Last Tango[45] (2015)
* National Bird (2016)
* Little Hands[46][47] (2017)
* It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story (2018)
* Waiting for the Miracle to Come (2018)
* Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2020)
* United States vs. Reality Winner (2021)

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### Documentary works

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Short film

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1969  | Silver City Revisited | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also cinematographer and editor
1982  | Reverse Angle | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2007  | Invisible Crimes | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment of Invisibles
2010  | If Buildings Could Talk | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
Il volo | Yes  | Yes  | No  | [48]
2014  | The Berlin Philharmonic | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Segment of Cathedrals of Culture[49]
2022  | Présence | Yes  | Yes  | Executive  |
2023  | Somebody Comes Into the Light | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2025  | The Keys to Freedom | Yes  | Yes  | No  |

Film

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1980  | Lightning Over Water | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Co-directed by Nicholas Ray;
Also editor
1985  | Tokyo-Ga | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also editor and narrator
1989  | Notebook on Cities and Clothes | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also cinematographer and narrator
1995  | A Trick of Light | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
1998  | Willie Nelson at the Teatro | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
1999  | Buena Vista Social Club | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2002  | Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2003  | The Soul of a Man | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
2011  | Pina | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | [50]
2014  | The Salt of the Earth | Yes  | Yes  | Executive  | Co-directed with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
2018  | Pope Francis: A Man of His Word | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2023  | Anselm | Yes  | No  | Yes  | [51][52]
TBA | The Secrets of Places | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | [53][54]

TV movies

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer

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1969  | Kaspar Hauser | Yes  | No  | No
1982  | Room 666 | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

TV series

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1977  | A House for Us | Yes  | No  | 2 episodes
2020  | 4 Walls Berlin | Yes  | Yes  | Episode "Change"

### Television

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TV shorts

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1969  | Police Film | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also cinematographer and editor
3 Americans LPS | Yes  | No  | No  | Also editor

### Music video

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Year  | Title  | Artist

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1990  | "Night and Day"  | U2
1992  | "Sax and Violins"  | Talking Heads
1993  | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"  | U2
1997  | "Every Time I Try"  | Spain[citation needed]
2000  | "The Ground Beneath Her Feet"  | U2
"Warum werde ich nicht satt?"  | Die Toten Hosen
2001  | "Souljacker Part I"  | Eels
2002  | "Live in a Hiding Place"  | Idlewild[55]
2009  | "Auflösen"  | Die Toten Hosen
2020  | "Anagnorisis"  | Asaf Avidan

### Commercials

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Subject

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2000  | "Un matin partout dans le monde"  | Yes  | Yes  | JCDecaux
2009  | "My Point of View"  | Yes  | Yes  | Leica[56]
2017–2018  | Jil Sander: Spring/Summer 2018 | Yes  | Yes  | Jil Sander[57]
2021  | A Future Together | Yes  | No  | Salvatore Frengasso

## Legacy and honors

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Year  | Association  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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2000 | Academy Awards | Best Documentary Feature Film | Buena Vista Social Club | Nominated  | [58]
2012 | Pina | Nominated  | [59]
2015 | The Salt of the Earth | Nominated  | [60]
2024 | Best International Feature Film | Perfect Days | Nominated  | [61]
2023 | Asia Pacific Screen Awards | Best Feature Film | Won  | [62]
2024 | Asian Film Awards | Best Film | Nominated  | [63]
[64]
1987  | Bavarian Film Awards | Best Director | Wings of Desire | Won  | [65]
1993  | Faraway, So Close! | Won  | [66]
1988  | Belgian Film Critics Association | Grand Prix | Wings of Desire | Won  | [67]
2024  | Perfect Days | Nominated  | [68]
2015 | Berlin International Film Festival | Honorary Golden Bear | —  | Won  | [69]
1985 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Direction | Paris, Texas | Won  | [70]
1989 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Wings of Desire | Nominated  | [71]
2000 | Buena Visa Social Club | Nominated  | [72]
2012 | Pina | Nominated  | [73]
1984 | Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Paris, Texas | Won  | [74]
1987 | Best Director | Wings of Desire | Won  | [75]
1993 | Grand Prix | Faraway, So Close! | Won  | [76]
1978 | César Awards | Best Foreign Film | The American Friend | Nominated  | [77]
1985 | Paris, Texas | Nominated
1988 | Wings of Desire | Nominated
2015 | Best Documentary Film | The Salt of the Earth | Won
2024 | Best Foreign Film | Perfect Days | Nominated
1985  | David di Donatello | Best Foreign Film | Paris, Texas | Nominated  | [78]
2015  | The Salt of the Earth | Nominated
1988 | European Film Awards | European Film | Wings of Desire | Nominated  | [79]
European Director | Won
1999 | European Documentary | Buena Visa Social Club | Won  | [80]
2005 | European Director | Don't Come Knocking | Nominated  | [81]
2011 | European Documentary | Pina | Won  | [82]
2024 | Lifetime Achievement Award | —  | Honored  | [83]
2017  | Filmfest Hamburg | Douglas Sirk Award | —  | Won  | [84]
2001 | Grammy Awards | Best Long Form Music Video | Teatro (Video)  | Nominated  | [85]
2004  | International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg | Master of Cinema Award  | —  | Won  | [86]
2024 | Japan Academy Film Prize | Director of the Year | Perfect Days | Won  | [87]
2005  | Locarno Film Festival | Leopard of Honour | —  | Won  | [88]
2025  |  Order of the Rising Sun | 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette | —  | Honored  | [89]
1982 | Venice Film Festival | Golden Lion | The State of Things | Won  | [90]
2012 | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Documentary Screenplay | Pina | Nominated  | [91]

Wenders has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1995, and the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 2005. The Wim Wenders Foundation was established in Düsseldorf in 2012. It provides a framework to bring together his cinematic, photographic, artistic and literary works in his native country and make them permanently accessible to the public.[92] In 2016, he received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland.[93]

## Exhibitions

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1986–1992

* Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987)[94]

1993–1995

* Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001)[94]

2004

* Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Australia and Japan, James Cohan Gallery, New York[95]
* Between The Lines, group exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York[96]

2006

* Wim Wenders: Immagini dal pianeta terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy[97][98]
* Journey to Onomichi – Photos by Wim and Donata Wenders,[99] Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan[100]

2011

* Places, strange and quiet, Haunch of Venison, London, UK[101]

2012

* Places Strange and Quiet, Ostlicht. Galerie Für Fotografie, Vienna, AT[102]
* Places, strange and quiet, Harald Falckenberg Exhibition Space, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE[103]
* Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth,[104] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RU

2014

* Wim Wenders: Places Strange & Quiet, GL Strand, Copenhagen, DK
* Wim Wenders: Urban Solitude, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, IT[105]

2015

* Wim Wenders: America, Villa e collezione la Panza, Varese, IT[106]
* "In broad daylight even the sounds shine. Wim Wenders scouting in Portugal", curated by Anna Duque y González and Laura Schmidt Reservatório da Mãe d'Água das Amoreiras, Lisbon[107]

2016

* "The Space Between the Characters Can Carry the Load", Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum for modern Art, Bremen, DE

2017/2018

* "Instant Stories/Wim Wenders' Polaroids", The Photographers' Gallery, London, from 20 October 2017 to 11 February 2018.[108]

### Installation art

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2019

* (E)motion[109][108]

2020

* Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper[110]

2022

* Presence,[111] with Claudine Drai

## Bibliography

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* Lindbergh, Peter; Wenders, Wim (2002), Peter Lindbergh: stories, Santa Fe: Arena Editions, ISBN 978-1-892041-64-7
* Shepard, Sam; Wenders, Wim (1991), Paris, Texas: Screenplay, New York: Ecco Press, ISBN 978-0-88001-266-9
* Steinhilber, Berthold; Wenders, Wim (2003), Ghost towns of the American West, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., ISBN 978-0-8109-4508-1
* Wenders, Wim (1986), Emotion pictures: Essays und Filmkritiken, 1968–1984, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, ISBN 978-3-88661-078-5
* Wenders, Wim (1989), Emotion pictures: reflections on cinema, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-15271-1
* Wenders, Wim (2001), Once: pictures and stories, New York: DAP/Schirmer/Mosel, ISBN 978-1-891024-25-2
* Wenders, Wim (1984), Paris, Texas, Nördlingen: Greno, ISBN 978-3-921568-11-8
* Wenders, Wim (2001), Written in the West, New York: teNeues, ISBN 978-3-8238-5469-2
* Wenders, Wim; Handke, Peter (1998), Der Himmel über Berlin: Ein Filmbuch von Wim Wenders und Peter Handke (in German), Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-02406-5
* Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (1992), The logic of images: essays and conversations, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-16517-9
* Wenders, Wim (1997), The Act of Seeing:Essays and Conversations, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571178-43-8
* Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (2000), My time with Antonioni: the diary of an extraordinary experience, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-20076-4
* Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (2001), On film: essays and conversations, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-20718-3
* Wenders, Wim; Tawada, Yoko (2007), Where Europe begins, New York: New Directions Publishers, ISBN 978-0-8112-1702-6
* Wenders, Wim; Wenders, Donata (2000), The heart is a sleeping Beauty: the Million Dollar Hotel - a film book, New York: teNeues, ISBN 978-3-8238-5468-5
* Wenders, Wim; Zournazi, Mary (2013), Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception, London: I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78076-693-5

## See also

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* BlainSouthern
* James Cohan Gallery
* Jerusalem 2111

## Notes

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1. ^ Director of the prologue, intermissions & epilogue
2. ^ Uncredited

## References

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1. ^ Kürten, Jochen (8 July 2013). "The eclectic filmmaker: Wim Wenders at 75". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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## Further reading

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* "Rede: Abendessen zu Ehren von Wim Wenders". Der Bundespräsident (in German). 22 September 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wim Wenders.

* Official website
* Wim Wenders at IMDb
* Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
* filmportal.de including biography, filmography and photos
* Wim Wenders at The Guardian

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Wim Wenders

Feature films|

* Summer in the City (1970)
* The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)
* The Scarlet Letter (1973)
* Alice in the Cities (1974)
* The Wrong Move (1975)
* Kings of the Road (1976)
* The American Friend (1977)
* Lightning Over Water (1980)
* Hammett (1982)
* The State of Things (1982)
* Paris, Texas (1984)
* Wings of Desire (1987)
* Until the End of the World (1991)
* Faraway, So Close! (1993)
* Lisbon Story (1994)
* The End of Violence (1997)
* The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
* Land of Plenty (2004)
* Don't Come Knocking (2005)
* Palermo Shooting (2008)
* Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
* The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
* Submergence (2017)
* Perfect Days (2023)

Documentaries|

* Room 666 (1982)
* Tokyo-Ga (1985)
* Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
* A Trick of Light (1995)
* Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
* The Soul of a Man (2003)
* Pina (2011)
* The Salt of the Earth (2014)
* Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)
* Anselm (2023)

Short films|

* "Twelve Miles to Trona" in Ten Minutes Older (2002)
* "War in Peace" in To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
* "Person to Person" in 8 (2008)

Photography books|

* Pictures from the Surface of the Earth (2001)
* Instant Stories (2017)

Related|

* Road Movie trilogy (1974–1976)
* Beyond the Clouds (1995)
* City of Angels (1998)

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New German Cinema

Associated
filmmakers

* Percy Adlon
* Harun Farocki
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* Peter Fleischmann
* Werner Herzog
* Alexander Kluge
* Dietrich Lohmann
* Ulli Lommel
* Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
* Wolfgang Petersen
* Edgar Reitz
* Helma Sanders-Brahms
* Peter Schamoni
* Volker Schlöndorff
* Werner Schroeter
* Haro Senft
* Franz-Josef Spieker
* Straub–Huillet
* Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
* Margarethe von Trotta
* Wim Wenders

Related|

* Filmverlag der Autoren
* Hof International Film Festival
* New German Cinema: A History
* Oberhausen Manifesto

Awards for Wim Wenders

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

1968–2000|

* Mike Nichols (1968)
* John Schlesinger (1969)
* George Roy Hill (1970)
* John Schlesinger (1971)
* Bob Fosse (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Stanley Kubrick (1975)
* Miloš Forman (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Alan Parker (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Akira Kurosawa (1980)
* Louis Malle (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Wim Wenders (1984)
* No Award (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Louis Malle (1988)
* Kenneth Branagh (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Alan Parker (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Mike Newell (1994)
* Michael Radford (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

2001–present|

* Peter Jackson (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Peter Weir (2003)
* Mike Leigh (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)
* Brady Corbet (2024)

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* e

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

1946–1975|

* René Clément (1946)
* René Clément (1949)
* Luis Buñuel (1951)
* Christian-Jaque (1952)
* Jules Dassin / Sergei Vasilyev (1955)
* Sergei Yutkevich (1956)
* Robert Bresson (1957)
* Ingmar Bergman (1958)
* François Truffaut (1959)
* Yuliya Solntseva (1961)
* Liviu Ciulei (1965)
* Sergei Yutkevich (1966)
* Ferenc Kósa (1967)
* Vojtěch Jasný / Glauber Rocha (1969)
* John Boorman (1970)
* Miklós Jancsó (1972)
* Michel Brault / Costa-Gavras (1975)

1976–2000|

* Ettore Scola (1976)
* Nagisa Ōshima (1978)
* Terrence Malick (1979)
* Werner Herzog (1982)
* Robert Bresson / Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
* Bertrand Tavernier (1984)
* André Téchiné (1985)
* Martin Scorsese (1986)
* Wim Wenders (1987)
* Fernando Solanas (1988)
* Emir Kusturica (1989)
* Pavel Lungin (1990)
* Joel Coen (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Mike Leigh (1993)
* Nanni Moretti (1994)
* Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Wong Kar-wai (1997)
* John Boorman (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Edward Yang (2000)

2001–present|

* Joel Coen / David Lynch (2001)
* Paul Thomas Anderson / Im Kwon-taek (2002)
* Gus Van Sant (2003)
* Tony Gatlif (2004)
* Michael Haneke (2005)
* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2006)
* Julian Schnabel (2007)
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008)
* Brillante Mendoza (2009)
* Mathieu Amalric (2010)
* Nicolas Winding Refn (2011)
* Carlos Reygadas (2012)
* Amat Escalante (2013)
* Bennett Miller (2014)
* Hou Hsiao-hsien (2015)
* Olivier Assayas / Cristian Mungiu (2016)
* Sofia Coppola (2017)
* Paweł Pawlikowski (2018)
* Dardenne brothers (2019)
* Leos Carax (2021)
* Park Chan-wook (2022)
* Tran Anh Hung (2023)
* Miguel Gomes (2024)
* Kleber Mendonça Filho (2025)

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European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

* Ingmar Bergman (1988)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
* Federico Fellini (1989)
* Andrzej Wajda (1990)
* Alexandre Trauner (1991)
* Billy Wilder (1992)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1993)
* Robert Bresson (1994)
* Marcel Carné (1995)
* Alec Guinness (1996)
* Jeanne Moreau (1997)
* Ennio Morricone (1999)
* Richard Harris (2000)
* Monty Python (2001)
* Tonino Guerra (2002)
* Claude Chabrol (2003)
* Carlos Saura (2004)
* Sean Connery (2005)
* Roman Polanski (2006)
* Jean-Luc Godard (2007)
* Judi Dench (2008)
* Ken Loach (2009)
* Bruno Ganz (2010)
* Stephen Frears (2011)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (2012)
* Catherine Deneuve (2013)
* Agnès Varda (2014)
* Charlotte Rampling (2015)
* Jean-Claude Carrière (2016)
* Alexander Sokurov (2017)
* Carmen Maura (2018)
* Werner Herzog (2019)
* Márta Mészáros (2021)
* Margarethe von Trotta (2022)
* Vanessa Redgrave (2023)
* Wim Wenders (2024)

Award of Merit (Special Achievement Award)|

* Richard Attenborough (1988)
* Jeremy Irons (1998)

Honorary Award|

* Manoel de Oliveira (2007)
* Michel Piccoli (2011)
* Michael Caine (2015)
* Andrzej Wajda (2016)
* Costa-Gavras (2018)

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European Film Award for Best Director

* Wim Wenders (1988)
* Géza Bereményi (1989)
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
* Lars von Trier (2003)
* Alejandro Amenábar (2004)
* Michael Haneke (2005)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2006)
* Cristian Mungiu (2007)
* Matteo Garrone (2008)
* Michael Haneke (2009)
* Roman Polanski (2010)
* Susanne Bier (2011)
* Michael Haneke (2012)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2013)
* Paweł Pawlikowski (2014)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2015)
* Maren Ade (2016)
* Ruben Östlund (2017)
* Paweł Pawlikowski (2018)
* Yorgos Lanthimos (2019)
* Thomas Vinterberg (2020)
* Jasmila Žbanić (2021)
* Ruben Östlund (2022)
* Justine Triet (2023)
* Jacques Audiard (2024)

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Honorary Golden Bear

* James Stewart (1982)
* Alec Guinness (1988)
* Dustin Hoffman (1989)
* Oliver Stone (1990)
* Gregory Peck / Billy Wilder (1993)
* Sophia Loren (1994)
* Alain Delon (1995)
* Elia Kazan / Jack Lemmon (1996)
* Kim Novak (1997)
* Catherine Deneuve (1998)
* Shirley MacLaine (1999)
* Jeanne Moreau (2000)
* Kirk Douglas (2001)
* Robert Altman / Claudia Cardinale (2002)
* Anouk Aimée (2003)
* Fernando Solanas (2004)
* Fernando Fernán Gómez / Im Kwon-taek (2005)
* Ian McKellen / Andrzej Wajda (2006)
* Arthur Penn (2007)
* Francesco Rosi (2008)
* Maurice Jarre (2009)
* Wolfgang Kohlhaase / Hanna Schygulla (2010)
* Armin Mueller-Stahl (2011)
* Meryl Streep (2012)
* Claude Lanzmann (2013)
* Ken Loach (2014)
* Wim Wenders (2015)
* Michael Ballhaus (2016)
* Milena Canonero (2017)
* Willem Dafoe (2018)
* Charlotte Rampling (2019)
* Helen Mirren (2020)
* Isabelle Huppert (2022)
* Steven Spielberg (2023)
* Martin Scorsese (2024)
* Tilda Swinton (2025)

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Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year

* Yoji Yamada (1978)
* Yoshitarō Nomura (1979)
* Shohei Imamura (1980)
* Seijun Suzuki (1981)
* Kōhei Oguri (1982)
* Kinji Fukasaku (1983)
* Hideo Gosha (1984)
* Juzo Itami (1985)
* Shinichiro Sawai (1986)
* Kinji Fukasaku (1987)
* Juzo Itami (1988)
* Junya Sato (1989)
* Shōhei Imamura (1990)
* Masahiro Shinoda (1991)
* Kihachi Okamoto (1992)
* Masayuki Suo (1993)
* Yoji Yamada (1994)
* Kinji Fukasaku (1995)
* Kaneto Shindo (1996)
* Masayuki Suo (1997)
* Shohei Imamura (1998)
* Hideyuki Hirayama (1999)
* Yasuo Furuhata (2000)
* Junji Sakamoto (2001)
* Isao Yukisada (2002)
* Yoji Yamada (2003)
* Yoshimitsu Morita (2004)
* Yoichi Sai (2005)
* Takashi Yamazaki (2006)
* Lee Sang-il (2007)
* Joji Matsuoka (2008)
* Yōjirō Takita (2009)
* Daisaku Kimura (2010)
* Tetsuya Nakashima (2011)
* Izuru Narushima (2012)
* Daihachi Yoshida (2013)
* Yuya Ishii (2014)
* Takashi Yamazaki (2015)
* Hirokazu Kore-eda (2016)
* Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi (2017)
* Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
* Hirokazu Kore-eda (2019)
* Hideki Takeuchi (2020)
* Setsurō Wakamatsu (2021)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2022)
* Kei Ishikawa (2023)
* Wim Wenders (2024)
* Michihito Fujii (2025)

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Cannes Film Festival jury presidents

1946–1975|

* Georges Huisman (1946)
* Georges Huisman (1947)
* Georges Huisman (1949)
* André Maurois (1951)
* Maurice Genevoix (1952)
* Jean Cocteau (1953)
* Jean Cocteau (1954)
* Marcel Pagnol (1955)
* Maurice Lehmann (1956)
* André Maurois (1957)
* Marcel Achard (1958)
* Marcel Achard (1959)
* Georges Simenon (1960)
* Jean Giono (1961)
* Tetsurō Furukaki (1962)
* Armand Salacrou (1963)
* Fritz Lang (1964)
* Olivia de Havilland (1965)
* Sophia Loren (1966)
* Alessandro Blasetti (1967)
* André Chamson (1968)
* Luchino Visconti (1969)
* Miguel Ángel Asturias (1970)
* Michèle Morgan (1971)
* Joseph Losey (1972)
* Ingrid Bergman (1973)
* René Clair (1974)
* Jeanne Moreau (1975)

1976–2000|

* Tennessee Williams (1976)
* Roberto Rossellini (1977)
* Alan J. Pakula (1978)
* Françoise Sagan (1979)
* Kirk Douglas (1980)
* Jacques Deray (1981)
* Giorgio Strehler (1982)
* William Styron (1983)
* Dirk Bogarde (1984)
* Miloš Forman (1985)
* Sydney Pollack (1986)
* Yves Montand (1987)
* Ettore Scola (1988)
* Wim Wenders (1989)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1990)
* Roman Polanski (1991)
* Gérard Depardieu (1992)
* Louis Malle (1993)
* Clint Eastwood (1994)
* Jeanne Moreau (1995)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1996)
* Isabelle Adjani (1997)
* Martin Scorsese (1998)
* David Cronenberg (1999)
* Luc Besson (2000)

2001–present|

* Liv Ullmann (2001)
* David Lynch (2002)
* Patrice Chéreau (2003)
* Quentin Tarantino (2004)
* Emir Kusturica (2005)
* Wong Kar-wai (2006)
* Stephen Frears (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Isabelle Huppert (2009)
* Tim Burton (2010)
* Robert De Niro (2011)
* Nanni Moretti (2012)
* Steven Spielberg (2013)
* Jane Campion (2014)
* Joel and Ethan Coen (2015)
* George Miller (2016)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2017)
* Cate Blanchett (2018)
* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019)
* Spike Lee (2021)
* Vincent Lindon (2022)
* Ruben Östlund (2023)
* Greta Gerwig (2024)
* Juliette Binoche (2025)

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Venice Film Festival jury presidents

1935–1968|

* Giuseppe Volpi (1935)
* Giuseppe Volpi (1936)
* Giuseppe Volpi (1937)
* Giuseppe Volpi (1938)
* Giuseppe Volpi (1939)
* Vinicio Marinucci (1947)
* Luigi Chiarini (1948)
* Mario Gromo (1949)
* Mario Gromo (1950)
* Mario Gromo (1951)
* Mario Gromo (1952)
* Eugenio Montale (1953)
* Ignazio Silone (1954)
* Mario Gromo (1955)
* John Grierson (1956)
* René Clair (1957)
* Jean Grémillon (1958)
* Luigi Chiarini (1959)
* Marcel Achard (1960)
* Filippo Sacchi (1961)
* Luigi Chiarini (1962)
* Arturo Lanocita (1963)
* Mario Soldati (1964)
* Carlo Bo (1965)
* Giorgio Bassani (1966)
* Alberto Moravia (1967)
* Guido Piovene (1968)

1980–2000|

* Suso Cecchi d'Amico (1980)
* Italo Calvino (1981)
* Marcel Carné (1982)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1983)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1984)
* Krzysztof Zanussi (1985)
* Alain Robbe-Grillet (1986)
* Irene Papas (1987)
* Sergio Leone (1988)
* Andrei Smirnov (1989)
* Gore Vidal (1990)
* Gian Luigi Rondi (1991)
* Dennis Hopper / Jiří Menzel (1992)
* Peter Weir (1993)
* David Lynch (1994)
* Jorge Semprún (1995)
* Roman Polanski (1996)
* Jane Campion (1997)
* Ettore Scola (1998)
* Emir Kusturica (1999)
* Miloš Forman (2000)

2001–present|

* Nanni Moretti (2001)
* Gong Li (2002)
* Mario Monicelli (2003)
* John Boorman (2004)
* Dante Ferretti (2005)
* Catherine Deneuve (2006)
* Zhang Yimou (2007)
* Wim Wenders (2008)
* Ang Lee (2009)
* Quentin Tarantino (2010)
* Darren Aronofsky (2011)
* Michael Mann (2012)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2015)
* Sam Mendes (2016)
* Annette Bening (2017)
* Guillermo del Toro (2018)
* Lucrecia Martel (2019)
* Cate Blanchett (2020)
* Bong Joon-ho (2021)
* Julianne Moore (2022)
* Damien Chazelle (2023)
* Isabelle Huppert (2024)
* Alexander Payne (2025)

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