Biography
Peter Weir
Directing
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 Honora…
Career works
14
Movies
13
Series
1
Career average
7.3/10
Birth date
08/21/1944
Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Filmography highlights
Movies
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023 · 7.7
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · 6.9
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005 · 7.0
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli
2005 · 8.0
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
2004 · 8.0
The Hundred Days
2004 · 7.2
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1975 · 6.0
Homesdale
1971 · 5.4
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Man on a Green Bike
1969
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
1968
Count Vim's Last Exercise
1968
Series
