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 (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).[1]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Homesdale | |||
| 1974 | The Cars That Ate Paris | |||
| 1975 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | |||
| 1977 | The Last Wave | |||
| 1979 | The Plumber | |||
| 1981 | Gallipoli | |||
| 1982 | The Year of Living Dangerously | |||
| 1985 | Witness | |||
| 1986 | The Mosquito Coast | |||
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | |||
| 1990 | Green Card | |||
| 1993 | Fearless | |||
| 1998 | The Truman Show | |||
| 2003 | ||||
| 2010 | The Way Back | |||
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | The Life and Times of the Reverend Buckshotte | ||||
| Count Vim's Last Exercise | |||||
| 1970 | Stirring the Pool | ||||
| 1971 | Michael | Segment of 3 to Go | |||
| 1972 | The Field Day | ||||
| The Computer Centre | |||||
| The Billiard Room | |||||
| Boat Buildind | |||||
| 1975 | Three Workshop Films | ||||
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Whatever Happened to Green Valley? | |||
| 1972 | Incredible Floridas | Documentary short | ||
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| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Count Vim's Last Exercise | TV short | |||
| 1969 | Man on a Green Bike | TV movie | |||
| 1971 | The Comedy Game | Episode "Aunty Jack's Travelling Show" | |||
| 1972 | Luke's Kingdom | Episodes "The Dam and the Damned" and "A Man Worse Than Cormac" | |||
| 1972-1973 | The Aunty Jack Show | 4 episodes | |||
| 1973 | The Very Best of 'The Aunty Jack Show | TV special | |||
| 1979 | The Plumber | TV movie | |||