Peter Weir

Peter Weir

Australian director Peter Weir was part of the Syndey filmmaking collective Ubu Films, which also included Phillip Noyce. Among his best-known films are Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show. Production will begin in March 2009 for Weir's latest project, The Way Back.

Fast Facts:

Born: August 21, 1944 in Sydney, Australia
Birth Name: Peter Lindsay Weir
Spouse: Wendy Stites
Nominated for Oscar for Best Director 5 times, but has never won

Film Career

Weir started his career as a production assistant for Australian TV. After directing some documentary shorts and a segment for the anthology film Three to Go, he made his debut feature, the 1974 cult classic The Cars That Ate Paris. He followed this up with Picnic at Hanging Rock, an ambiguous, unsettling look at schoolgirls lost in the Australian wilderness.

Weir started working in the American film industry in 1985, directing two films with Harrison Ford: Witness, about a murder in an Amish community, and The Mosquito Coast, about an eccentric inventor who moves his family to South America. He has since made a number of Hollywood films, including the box office hits Dead Poets Society and Green Card, and the 2003 naval adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with Russell Crowe.

Weir has directed 5 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Linda Hunt, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Rosie Perez and Ed Harris. Hunt eventually won Best Supporting Actress for The Year of Living Dangerously, in which she played a male character.

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Peter Weir Timeline

Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
August 21, 1944: Born Sydney, Australia
1969: Man On A Green Bike
1971: Homesdale
1974: The Cars That Ate Paris
1975: Picnic at Hanging Rock
1976: Luke's Kingdom
1977: The Last Wave
1981: Gallipoli
1982: The Year of Living Dangerously
1985: Witness
1989: Dead Poets Society
1990: Green Card
1993: Fearless
1998: The Truman Show
2003: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2010: The Way Back

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