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Peter Weir

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1944-08-21

Birth Place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Movies and TV shows :

A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'

A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'

2004

6.0

Movie
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

1975

6.0

Movie
Count Vim's Last Exercise

Count Vim's Last Exercise

1968

0.0

Movie
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

2011

0.0

Movie
Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'

Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'

2005

10.0

Movie
Homesdale

Homesdale

1971

5.1

Movie
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

2019

6.8

Movie
poster

Spécial cinéma

1974

0.0

TV
The Hundred Days

The Hundred Days

2004

6.3

Movie
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte

The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte

1968

0.0

Movie
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

2023

7.8

Movie
Walkabout to Hollywood

Walkabout to Hollywood

1980

0.0

Movie