Peter Weir

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 received six Academy Award nominations ultimately being awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2022 for his lifetime achievement career Early in his career as a director Weir was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement 19701990 Weir made his feature film debut with Homesdale 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 After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genresmany of them major box office hitsincluding Academy Awardnominated films such as the thriller Witness 1985 the drama Dead Poets Society 1989 the romantic comedy Green Card 1990 the social science fiction comedydrama The Truman Show 1998 and the epic historical drama Master and Commander The Far Side of the World 2003 His final feature before his retirement was the wellreceived The Way Back 2010 Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Weir licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia