Peter Weir
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
DirectingBirthday
August 21, 1944Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
34Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaCast credits
Homesdale
Robert 2A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
SelfMaking Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
SelfCount Vim's Last Exercise
Mr. ThinThe Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
BuckWalkabout to Hollywood
SelfEntrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
SelfThe Hundred Days
SelfTimeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
SelfCrew credits
Dead Poets Society
DirectorFearless
DirectorPicnic at Hanging Rock
DirectorThe Mosquito Coast
Director, ProducerThe Year of Living Dangerously
Director, ScreenplayGallipoli
Director, StoryMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Director, Screenplay, ProducerGreen Card
Producer, Director, WriterWitness
DirectorThe Truman Show
DirectorThe Cars That Ate Paris
Director, Screenplay, StoryThe Way Back
Producer, Screenplay, DirectorThe Last Wave
Director, ScreenplayThe Plumber
Director, WriterWhatever Happened To Green Valley?
DirectorHomesdale
Director, WriterThree to Go
Director, WriterCount Vim's Last Exercise
Director, Writer, ProducerThe Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
Director, Writer, Producer, Story