Marianne Hoppe. He has ventured into the production of opera and ballet, he has created musicals sui generis in collaboration with illustrious emerging personalities, he has promoted performances especially with Christopher Knowles, he has directed spectacular fashion parades. His prolific activity as designer and visual artist can be seen in his paintings, sculptures, installations, graphic works, exhibitions. He was awarded the major prize at the Venice Biennale. Nothing new can be achieved without changing the conceptions of organisation. He was a decisive promoter of coproduction of festivals since the '70s, of the creation of prototype-performances that could be translated in various nations with new casts, and also of the creation of serial works to be completed later in production studios. Thanks are due to him for the embrace between different nations, languages, styles and traditions. Even when using bigger and bigger and more and more international teams of collaborators Wilson has never renounced making his own imprint of perfectionist in a developing opera. He has to be accredited with the Watermill Centre, centre of experimentation and training where his work as a teacher has helped him in retain an inexhaustible flow of fresh ideas from the contact with the young people. Legacy and awards 1971 and 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship awards 1971 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director for Deafman Glance 1975 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship 1981 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship 1986 Nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1987 Subject of documentary Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, directed by Howard Brookner 1993 Golden Lion for Sculpture from the Venice Biennale 1996 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize 1997 Europe Theatre Prize 2000 Election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2001 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement 2002 Commandeur des arts et des lettres 2005 Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto 2009 Hein Heckroth Prize – Lifetime Achievement for Scenic Design 2009 Medal for Arts and Sciences of the city of Hamburg 2009 Trophée des Arts Award, Alliance française 2013 Honorary doctorate from the City University of New York 2013 Olivier Award: Best New Opera for Einstein on the Beach 2013 Paez Medal of Art from VAEA Works The King of Spain, 1969 The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud, 1969 Deafman Glance (film) (with Raymond Andrews), 1970 KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: a story about a family and some people changing, 1972 The Life and Times of Joseph