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Peter Weir

Born 1944 · Australian film director

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.

Peter Weir, in order

  1. 1969 Man on a Green Bike (TV movie): directed
  2. 1970 Peter Weir: Short Film Collection: directed
  3. 1970 Three To Go: Michael (short film): directed
  4. 1971 Homesdale: directed, wrote, acted
  5. 1971 Tempo: Australia in the Seventies (short film): produced
  6. 1971 Three to Go: directed, wrote
  7. 1972 Australian [Colour] Diary. No. 043. Three Directions In Pop Music (short film): directed
  8. 1972 Boat Building (short film): directed
  9. 1972 The Billiard Room (short film): directed
  10. 1972 The Computer Centre (short film): directed
  11. 1973 Whatever Happened to Green Valley?: directed, wrote
  12. 1974 The Cars That Ate Paris: directed, wrote · critics 67%, audiences 34% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  13. 1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock: directed · critics 94%, audiences 84% · streaming on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, TCM
  14. 1977 The Last Wave: directed, wrote · critics 75%, audiences 78% · streaming on HBO Max, Criterion Channel
  15. 1979 Heart, Head And Hand: Peter Rushforth, Potter (short film): directed
  16. 1979 The Plumber: directed, wrote · audiences 60% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  17. 1981 Gallipoli: directed, wrote · critics 91%, audiences 83% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  18. 1982 The Year of Living Dangerously: directed, wrote · critics 88%, audiences 77% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  19. 1985 Witness: directed · critics 91%, audiences 80% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  20. 1986 The Mosquito Coast: directed · critics 78%, audiences 61%
  21. 1989 Dead Poets Society: directed · critics 84%, audiences 92% · streaming on Apple TV
  22. 1990 Green Card: directed, wrote, produced · critics 58%, audiences 50% · streaming on Hoopla
  23. 1993 Fearless: directed · critics 86%, audiences 80%
  24. 1998 The Truman Show: directed · critics 94%, audiences 89% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  25. 2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: directed, wrote, produced · critics 86%, audiences 80% · streaming on Apple TV
  26. 2010 The Way Back: directed, wrote, produced · critics 73%, audiences 72% · streaming on MUBI
  27. 2012 Love Bite: produced · directed by Andy De Emmony · audiences 23%