Peter Weir
Directing
August 21, 1944 (82 years old)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
14
Acting Credits
29
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023
as Self
7.7
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self
6.9
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self
7
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli
2005
as Himself
8
The Hundred Days
2004
as Self
7.2
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
2004
as Self
8
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980
as Self
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1975
as Self
6
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
9.5
Homesdale
1971
as Robert 2
5.4
Man on a Green Bike
1969
as Technology/Mayor of Cadmium
Count Vim's Last Exercise
1968
as Mr. Thin
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
1968
as Buck