Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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In their own words 4
Get the right actor, and the job's halfway done. I've only miscast major people twice in my life - out of respect to them, I won't tell you who.
Portrait of the artist: Peter Weir, director (2011)
Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, I'm getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use Pink Floyd for inspiration while making a film.
Portrait of the artist: Peter Weir, director (2011)
When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.
When asked for his 'high point'
Filmography 38
The Truman Show
Dead Poets Society
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Witness
The Way Back
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Mosquito Coast
Green Card
Gallipoli
The Year of Living Dangerously
Fearless
The Last Wave
The Cars That Ate Paris
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
The Plumber
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Homesdale
The Hundred Days
Incredible Floridas
Three to Go
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Whatever Happened to Green Valley?
3 Directions in Australian Pop Music
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli
Walkabout to Hollywood
Count Vim's Last Exercise
Heart, Head & Hand
Adults Learning: The Computer Centre
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
Three to Go: Michael
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Adults Learning: The Field Day
Adults Learning: The Billiard Room
Adults Learning: Boat Building68 credits on file
Television 2
Spécial cinéma
Luke's KingdomAwards 8
In their orbit 1
Nearby in directors 6
About this person
Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), 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 and he has won two AACTA Award for Best Direction and two BAFTA Award for Best Direction. In 2022, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime career achievement. In 2024, he received an honorary life-time achievement award at the Venice Film Festival.
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