Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 21, 1944
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Credits
44 titles
Peter Weir
Biography
Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born August 21, 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back (2010). He has received six Academy Award nominations, ultimately being awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2022 for his lifetime achievement career. Early in his career as a director, Weir was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement (1970–1990). Weir made his feature film debut with Homesdale and continued with the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the supernatural thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981). Weir gained tremendous success with the multinational production The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres–many of them major box office hits–including Academy Award-nominated films such as the thriller Witness (1985), the drama Dead Poets Society (1989), the romantic comedy Green Card (1990), the social science fiction comedy-drama The Truman Show (1998) and the epic historical drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). His final feature before his retirement was the well-received The Way Back (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Weir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self
All Is Lost
Thanks
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
The Way Back
Producer
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Self
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli
Himself
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
Self
The Hundred Days
Self
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Director
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Idea
The Truman Show
Director
Fearless
Director
Green Card
Producer
Dead Poets Society
Director
The Mosquito Coast
Director
Witness
Director
The Year of Living Dangerously
Screenplay
Gallipoli
Director
Walkabout to Hollywood
Self
The Plumber
Director
Heart, Head & Hand
Director
The Last Wave
Screenplay
Luke's Kingdom
Director
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Director
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Self
The Cars That Ate Paris
Screenplay
Spécial cinéma
Self
Whatever Happened to Green Valley?
Director
The Fifth Facade: The Making of the Sydney Opera House
Script
3 Directions in Australian Pop Music
Director
Incredible Floridas
Director
Adults Learning: Boat Building
Director
Adults Learning: The Billiard Room
Director
Adults Learning: The Computer Centre
Director
Adults Learning: The Field Day
Director
Wake in Fright
Production Assistant
Homesdale
Robert 2
Three to Go
Director
Three to Go: Michael
Director
Man on a Green Bike
Technology/Mayor of Cadmium
Stirring the Pool
Director
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
Buck
Count Vim's Last Exercise
Mr. Thin