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    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a renowned German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer who is a major figure in New German Cinema. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for films about Cuban music culture, the choreographer Pina Bausch, and Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Wenders won a BAFTA for Best Direction for his 1984 film Paris, Texas and has had many of his films recognized at the Cannes Film Festival, including winning Best Director for Wings of Desire in 1987. Along with his filmmaking career, Wenders is also an active photographer who emphasizes desolate landscapes and has served as the president of the European Film Academy

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    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a renowned German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer who is a major figure in New German Cinema. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for films about Cuban music culture, the choreographer Pina Bausch, and Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Wenders won a BAFTA for Best Direction for his 1984 film Paris, Texas and has had many of his films recognized at the Cannes Film Festival, including winning Best Director for Wings of Desire in 1987. Along with his filmmaking career, Wenders is also an active photographer who emphasizes desolate landscapes and has served as the president of the European Film Academy

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    Ernst Wilhelm

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    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a renowned German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer who is a major figure in New German Cinema. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for films about Cuban music culture, the choreographer Pina Bausch, and Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Wenders won a BAFTA for Best Direction for his 1984 film Paris, Texas and has had many of his films recognized at the Cannes Film Festival, including winning Best Director for Wings of Desire in 1987. Along with his filmmaking career, Wenders is also an active photographer who emphasizes desolate landscapes and has served as the president of the European Film Academy

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    Ernst Wilhelm 

    "Wim" Wenders (German: [ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German


    filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer.[1] 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.[2][3] He is considered an auteur director.[4]

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