Wim Wenders
German filmmaker
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| 2025 | Wenders created a short film 'The Keys to Freedom' in Reims, France, touring the Museum of the Surrender and commenting on the significance of freedom and American protection in Europe. |
| 2025 | Honored with the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette from Japan |
| 2023 | Directed two documentaries: Perfect Days and Anselm. |
| 2020 | Completed his term as president of the European Film Academy. |
| 2019 | Wenders served as executive producer for Luca Lucchesi's documentary A Black Jesus, which explores religion, communal identity, and the refugee crisis in a small Sicilian town. |
| 2018 | In an interview, Wenders revealed his favorite movie was his film about Pope Francis, stating his entire career had been building up to it. |
| 2018 | Directed the documentary Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. |
| June 2017 | Wenders stage-directed Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles, starring Olga Peretyatko and Francesco Demuro, conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera. |
| 2016 | Received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland |
| 2015 | Wenders collaborated with Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders – Visions on Film. The project remained incomplete after Porter's death. |
| 2015 | Earned an Honorary Golden Bear. |
| 2014 | Received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for The Salt of the Earth. |
| 2012 | Established the Wim Wenders Foundation in Düsseldorf to preserve and make his works accessible to the public |
| 2012 | While promoting his 3-D dance film Pina, Wenders announced he would only work in 3-D going forward and began work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture. |
| 2011 | Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, but the project was ultimately cancelled due to his insistence on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive. |
| 2011 | Received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for Pina. |
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