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Also known as Peter Lindsay Weir

Australian film director (born 1944)

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Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian film director and screenwriter born in Sydney on August 21, 1944. He studied at the Sydney Law School and the University of Sydney. His professional career began in 1968, with his work period ending in 2020. Weir has worked in Hollywood and speaks English.

He has received several awards, including the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and an Academy Honorary Award. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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Person · Open Library

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

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Surrey
Active from
1944

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
711
Total plays
1,449

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Weir">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • 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. After a couple of days' shooting, I had to tell them I was letting them go. It was hideous.
  • 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. Their music contains a sound for almost everything I do.
  • When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.
  • The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be.

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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).

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