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Peter Weir

Australian film director (born 1944)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1944-08-21
Works: 8

Top works

Life of a Forestry Ploughman and Other Adventures
Der Club der toten Dichter - Dead Poets Society von Nancy H. Kleinbaum. Königs Erläuterungen.
More Ways Than Means
Report on the Inquiry into Shared and Integrated Education
A garden of delights & other stories

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Film & TV

Directing · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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…

Known for

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self2023
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self2019
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections — Self2012
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' — Self2005
Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli — Himself2005
The Hundred Days — Self2004
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' — Self2004
Walkabout to Hollywood — Self1980
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 — Self1975
Spécial cinéma — Self1974

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Type: Person
Active from: 1951-07-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 711
Total plays: 1,449

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,576x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,104x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,483x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,272x

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Key facts

Born: Peter Lindsay Weir , ( 1944-08-21 ) 21 August 1944 (age 81) , Sydney, Australia
Occupations: Film director screenwriter producer
Years active: 1967–2010
Spouse: Wendy Stites ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 )

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Key dates

Born: 21 August 1944

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Peter
Family name: Weir
Gender: male
Citizenship: Australia
Place of birth: Sydney
Occupation: director
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Academy Honorary Award
Image: PeterWeirApr2011 (cropped).jpg

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Peter Lindsay Weir (/wɪər/ WEER; born 21 August 1944) 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 (Golden Lion).

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 The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), 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).