German auteur Wim Wenders will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 37th European Film Awards.

The director, widely known as the shepherd of the New German Cinema movement, has over the years received awards at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals, as well as a BAFTA Award and three Oscar nominations. His acclaimed films include the Road Movie trilogy, consisting of "Alice in the Cities" (1974), "The Wrong Move" (1975) and "Kings of the Road" (1976); "Paris, Texas" (1984), for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Director and the Palme d'Or at Cannes; "Wings of Desire" (1987), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes; and his most recent film, "Perfect Days," which was nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film.

From 1996 to 2020 he was president of the European Film Academy and in 2015 he won the Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival.

“With this award, we celebrate Wim Wenders’ outstanding body of work, which continues to explore and experiment with a curious eye and an open mind,” said Matthijs Wouter Knol, CEO and Director of the European Film Academy. “As one of the founding members of the European Film Academy, its Chairman from 1990 to 1995 and President until 2020, Wim Wenders has a strong connection with the European Film Academy and we are also pleased to celebrate and thank his outstanding commitment.”