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Terrence Malick has directed Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), The Tree of Life (2011), To the Wonder (2013), Knight of Cups (2015), Voyage of Time (2016), Song to Song (2017), and A Hidden Life (2019). He is also editing The Way of the Wind, a film about the life of Jesus.
Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life (2011). Days of Heaven also won the Best Director prize at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
After the release of Days of Heaven in 1978, Malick moved to Paris and withdrew from public view for roughly two decades. During this period he wrote multiple unproduced screenplays and continued developing a project called Q about the origins of life, which later provided material for The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time.
Malick graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1965 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he worked on a thesis about the concept of world in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. He left without completing his degree after a dispute with his advisor Gilbert Ryle, but in 1969 published his translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons.
The Thin Red Line won the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival and received seven Academy Award nominations. Malick was personally nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film.
Franz Jagerstatter was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at age 36 for refusing to support military actions. He was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. Malick's 2019 film A Hidden Life stars August Diehl as Jagerstatter and Valerie Pachner as his wife, Franziska, and was shot at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam and in locations in northern Italy including Sappada and Brixen, South Tyrol.