Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir ( ; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired 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), ''The Year of Living Dangerously'' (1982), ''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 (1970–1990). 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 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). His final feature before his retirement was the well-received ''The Way Back'' (2010). Provided by Wikipedia
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