Peter Weir
Known for: Directing
Born: August 21, 1944
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…
Known for
The Hundred Days
2004
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
2004
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1975
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
1968
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli
2005
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980
Count Vim's Last Exercise
1968
Man on a Green Bike
1969
Homesdale
1971
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
Spécial cinéma
1974
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012