Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. A prominent figure of the Australian New Wave movement (which includes Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Tim Burstall, John Duigan, Richard Franklin, Ken Hannam, George Miller, Russell Mulcahy, Phillip Noyce, Henri Safran, Fred Schepisi, Brian Trenchard-Smith, and Simon Wincer), 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.
He made his feature directorial debut on Homesdale (1971), with Geoff Malone and Kate Fitzpatrick. Other films in the 1970s include The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), with John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles, and Bruce Spence; Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver; The Last Wave (1977), with Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett and David Gulpili; and TV movie The Plumber (1979), with Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Candy Raymond, and Robert Coleby.
He received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for Witness (1985), with Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubeš, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, Patti LuPone, Viggo Mortensen, and Robert Earl Jones; and Dead Poets Society (1989), with Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, James Waterston, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood Smith, George Martin, and Leon Pownall. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Green Card (1990), with Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Prosky, Mary Louis Wilson, and Lois Smith; and two more nominations for Best Director for The Truman Show (1998), with Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, and Paul Giamatti; and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), with Russel Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, and Billy Boyd – the latter also being nominated for Best Picture.
Other notable films include Gallipoli (1981), with Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Ron Graham, Gerda Nicolson, and Bill Hunter; The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), with Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Kerr, Michael Murphy, Linda Hunt, and Noel Ferrier; and The Mosquito Coast (1986), Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, and Martha Plimpton; Other Fearless (1993), with Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio del Toro, Deirdre O’Connell, and John de Lance; The Way Back (2010), with Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur, and Mark Strong.
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(*seen originally in theaters)
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- Homesdale (1971)
- The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- The Last Wave (1977)
- The Plumber (1979) – TV movie
- Gallipoli (1981)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- Witness (1985)
- The Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Green Card (1990)
- Fearless (1993)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)*
- The Way Back (2010)
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