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Director
Peter Weir
Defining Films
Profile
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
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
On Picnic at Hanging Rock · The Guardian: Peter Weir: 'I'm a good storyteller'
Filmography (21)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Gallipoli
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Dead Poets Society
The Way Back
The Truman Show
Fearless
The Mosquito Coast
Witness
Heart, Head and Hand
Heart, Head and Hand
Three Workshop Films
Three Workshop Films
Fugue
Fugue
Whatever Happened to Green Valley
The Fifth Façade
The Fifth Façade
Australian Colour Diary #43: Three Directions in Australian Pop Music
Incredible Floridas
The Billiard Room ; The Computer Centre ; Boat Builders ; The Country Couldn’t Do Without You ; Field Day
The Billiard Room ; The Computer Centre ; Boat Builders ; The Country Couldn’t Do Without You ; Field Day
Tempo: Australia in the ’70s
Tempo: Australia in the ’70s
Stirring the Pool
Stirring the Pool
The Life and Flight of the Rev Buck Shotte
The Life and Flight of the Rev Buck Shotte
Count Vim’s Last Exercise