Peter Weir

Peter Weir

  • Birthday: 1944-08-21
  • Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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.

Filmography

Production

Dead Poets Society

1989

As Director

Fearless

1993

As Director

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975

As Director

The Mosquito Coast

1986

As Director

Gallipoli

1981

As Director

Green Card

1990

As Director

Witness

1985

As Director

The Truman Show

1998

As Director

The Cars That Ate Paris

1974

As Director

The Way Back

2010

As Director

The Last Wave

1977

As Director

The Plumber

1979

As Director

Homesdale

1971

As Director

Three to Go

1971

As Director

Incredible Floridas

1972

As Director

Count Vim's Last Exercise

1968

As Director

The Mosquito Coast

1986

As Producer

Green Card

1990

As Producer

The Way Back

2010

As Producer

Count Vim's Last Exercise

1968

As Producer

Gallipoli

1981

As Story

The Cars That Ate Paris

1974

As Screenplay

The Way Back

2010

As Screenplay

The Last Wave

1977

As Screenplay

The Plumber

1979

As Writer

Green Card

1990

As Writer

Three to Go

1971

As Writer

Homesdale

1971

As Writer

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