Peter Weir

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1944-08-21 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Peter Weir

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.

Known For

Director

2010
The Way Back

as Director

1998
The Truman Show

as Director

1993
Fearless

as Director

1990
Green Card

as Director

1989
Dead Poets Society

as Director

1986
The Mosquito Coast

as Director

1985
Witness

as Director

1981
Gallipoli

as Director

1979
The Plumber

as Director

1977
The Last Wave

as Director

1975
1974
1972
1971
Homesdale

as Director

1971
Three to Go

as Director

Writer