Peter Weir
Australian film director (born 1944)
Peter Lindsay Weir AM is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years, such as Homesdale (1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Plumber (1979), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986), 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.
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Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 17 films (1970–1985) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 4 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▲ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Three to go: Michael | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1971 | Homesdale | Peter Weir | 50 min | Color & B&W | ||
| 1971 | Three To Go | Australia News And Information Bureau | 90 min | 16mm | sound | |
| 1972 | Australian [colour] diary. No. 043. Three Directions in Pop Music | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1972 | Boat building | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1972 | The Billiard room | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1972 | The Computer Centre | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1973 | Tempo: Australia In The Seventies | Stanton FIlms | 24 | 16mm | ||
| 1973 | Whatever happened to Green Valley? | Peter Weir | Color | |||
| 1974 | The Cars That Ate Paris | Peter Weir | 87 min | Color | ||
| 1975 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter Weir | 118 min | Color | ||
| 1975 | Whatever Happened To Green Valley | Film Australia | 55 min | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1977 | The Last Wave | Peter Weir | 106 min | Color | ||
| 1979 | Heart, head and hand: Peter Rushforth, potter | Peter Weir | ||||
| 1979 | The Plumber | Peter Weir | 76 min | |||
| 1981 | Gallipoli | Peter Weir | 111 min | Color | ||
| 1985 | Witness | Peter Weir | 112 min | 16mm | Color |