Peter Weir is an Australian film director. He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement (1970–1990), with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the supernatural thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981). The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously (1983).
After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits—including Academy Award-nominated films such as the thriller Witness (1985), the drama Dead Poets Society (1989), the romantic comedy Green Card (1990), the social science fiction comedy-drama The Truman Show (1998) and the epic historical drama Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer.
Since 2003, Weir's productivity has declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically acclaimed box-office flop The Way Back (2010).
Feature films Year Title Director Writer Producer1971Homesdale1974The Cars That Ate Paris1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1977The Last Wave1979The Plumber1981Gallipoli1982The Year of Living Dangerously1985Witness1986The Mosquito Coast1989Dead Poets Society1990Green Card1993Fearless1998The Truman Show2003Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2010The Way Back
Short films Year Title Director Producer Writer Notes 1968 The Life and Times of the Reverend Buckshotte Count Vim's Last Exercise 1970 Stirring the Pool 1971MichaelSegment of 3 to Go 1972 The Field Day The Computer Centre The Billiard Room Boat Building 1975 Three Workshop Films
Documentary Year Title Director Producer Notes1973Whatever Happened to Green Valley? 1972 Incredible Floridas Documentary short 3 Directions in Australian Pop Music: Australian Colour Diary 43
Television Year Title Director Producer Writer Notes1968Count Vim's Last ExerciseTV short1969Man on a Green BikeTV movie1971The Comedy GameEpisode "Aunty Jack's Travelling Show"1972-1973The Aunty Jack Show4 episodes1973The Very Best of 'The Aunty Jack Show'''
|TV special |- |1976 |Luke's Kingdom|
|Episodes "The Dam and the Damned" and"A Man Worse Than Cormac" |- |1979 |The Plumber''TV movie
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