Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir ( 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 tw
Defining films
In their own words
My key influences at that point were films that were full of atmosphere, like Lean's Summertime and Bergman's Persona
It was a huge influence on all of us. I showed it to the cast and crew to give them a sense of the kind of intensity I wanted.
I showed it [Aguirre, the Wrath of God] to the cast and crew to give them a sense of the kind of intensity I wanted.
Films by decade
