Wim Wenders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wim Wenders

German film director, playwright, screenwriter, photographer and film producer

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1945

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, actor, university teacher, film director, film producer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [v?m v?nd?s]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and 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' 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.