Peter Weir
Directing
Date of birth:Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gender:Male
Popularity:1
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).
Filmography
Rating by year
- Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison FordSelf2023-12-017.725
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic SoundSelf2019-10-256.980
- Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and ReflectionsSelf2012-05-250.00
- How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'Self2005-08-197.01
- Entrenched: The Making of GallipoliHimself2005-01-018.01
- A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'Self2004-08-018.02
- The Hundred DaysSelf2004-04-207.25
- Walkabout to HollywoodSelf1980-02-110.00
- A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900Self1975-01-016.01
- HomesdaleRobert 21971-06-015.48
- Man on a Green BikeTechnology/Mayor of Cadmium1969-12-280.00
- The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck ShotteBuck1968-01-030.00
- Count Vim's Last ExerciseMr. Thin1968-01-020.00