Filmmaker won Golden Lion for 'The State of Things'
ROME -- Filmmaker Wim Wenders will head the jury at the 65th Venice Film Festival, organizers said Friday, extending a 35-year relationship between the German Oscar nominee and the Venice event.
Wenders first appeared on the Venice Lido in 1972 with "Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter" (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick), his first feature film. Wenders won the Golden Lion in Venice a decade later for "Der Stand der Dinge" (The State of Things), and he has taken home two sidebar prizes from Venice since then.
Wenders received an Oscar nomination for his 1999 documentary "Buena Vista Social Club."
His nomination silences weeks of rumors that Meryl Streep -- another Venice regular -- was in line for the job as jury president.
He will preside over a jury that will pick a winner from a 22-film competition lineup that for each of the past two years was made up entirely of world premieres. He also is the first jury president of Marco Mueller's second mandate as the Venice artistic director.
The Venice Film Festival is set for Aug. 27-Sept. 6.
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