Biography
Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His film-making process involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working. He has received numerous accolades including a Silver Bear Award and four Awards at the Cannes Film Festival in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Awards & recognition
- Golden Lion · 2025
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2019
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 2012
- Alfred P. Sloan Prize · 2005
- Bayerischer Poetentaler · 2000
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- Rauriser Literaturpreis · 1979
- Directors Guild of America Award
- European Film Award — Best Documentary · 1999 · nominated
- César Award — Best Foreign Film · 1976 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Rick and Morty
The Mandalorian
The Boondocks
Parks and Recreation
The Simpsons
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Lessons of Darkness
The Look of Silence
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Ghost Elephants
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
The Act of Killing
Metalocalypse
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Burden of Dreams
Fitzcarraldo
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Life Itself
Encounters at the End of the World
Grizzly Man
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian
Red Army
All In This Tea
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Land of Silence and Darkness
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
My Best Fiend
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Stroszek
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Great Buster
Mistaken for Strangers
What Dreams May Come
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Tokyo-Ga
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Into the Inferno
BLAST!
Rescue Dawn
American Dad!
Julien Donkey-Boy
Into the Abyss
The Colbert Report
The White Diamond