Peter Weir

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-08-21 (age 81)Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Spécial cinéma

Dead Poets Society

The Truman Show

Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli

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

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

The Hundred Days

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Three to Go

The Way Back

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Witness

Gallipoli

Fearless

All Is Lost

Luke's Kingdom

3 Directions in Australian Pop Music

Tru-Talk

The Year of Living Dangerously

The Last Wave

The Mosquito Coast

The Plumber

Green Card

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

The Cars That Ate Paris

Homesdale

Whatever Happened to Green Valley?

Incredible Floridas

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Walkabout to Hollywood

Heart, Head & Hand

The Fifth Facade: The Making of the Sydney Opera House

Adults Learning: Boat Building

Adults Learning: The Field Day

Adults Learning: The Computer Centre

Adults Learning: The Billiard Room

Three to Go: Michael

Man on a Green Bike

Stirring the Pool

Count Vim's Last Exercise

The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte