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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders ((:vɪm vɛndəɐs); born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he has received some of the highest international film awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his drama ''Paris, Texas; ''the Golden Lion for the drama ''The State of Things'' at the Venice Film Festival (1982); and Best Director for the romantic fantasy film ''Wings of Desire'' at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. He has been nominated for the Academy Awards three times, for his documentaries ''Buena Vista Social Club'', about the music of Cuba, ''Pina'', about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and ''The Salt of the Earth'', about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin. Alongside filmmaking, Wenders works with the medium of photography, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. ==Early life== Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditional Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. The use of the Dutch name "Wim" is a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm/Willem". As a boy, he took unaccompanied trips to Amsterdam to visit the Rijksmuseum. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine (1963–64) and philosophy (1964–65) in Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he dropped out of university studies and moved to Paris in October 1966 to become a painter. Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, in Montparnasse. During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater. Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists. That fall, he entered the "Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München" (University of Television and Film Munich). Between 1967 and 1970 while at the "HFF", Wenders also worked as a film critic for ''FilmKritik'', then the Munich daily newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Twen'' magazine, and ''Der Spiegel''. Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a feature-length 16mm black and white film, ''Summer in the City''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wim Wenders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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