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Peter Weir

1944 - Today

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Peter Lindsay Weir ( WEER; born 21 August 1944) is a retired Australian 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. In 2022, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Weir is the 160th most popular film director (down from 128th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Australia (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Film Director.

Peter Weir is most famous for directing films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," "Witness," "Dead Poets Society," and "The Truman Show."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Peter Weir ranks 160 out of 2,041. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marcel Carné, Moustapha Akkad, Don Siegel, Abel Gance, and Josef von Sternberg. After him are Lewis Milestone, Louis Malle, Jean Vigo, Claude Lanzmann, Jacques Rivette, and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Peter Weir ranks 86. Before him are R. Lee Ermey, Raymond Moody, Udo Kier, Rudy Giuliani, Maria João Pires, and Zafarullah Khan Jamali. After him are Bernard Hill, Graham Taylor, François Cevert, Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Michelle Phillips, and Sam Elliott.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Peter Weir ranks 36 out of 1,143. Before him are Hugh Jackman (1968), Colleen McCullough (1937), Peter Singer (1946), V. Gordon Childe (1892), Howard Florey (1898), and Lisa Gerrard (1961). After him are Steve Irwin (1962), Johnny Logan (1954), Margot Robbie (1990), Kylie Minogue (1968), Joan Sutherland (1926), and P. L. Travers (1899).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, Peter Weir ranks 2. Before him are George Miller (1945). After him are Roger Donaldson (1945), Baz Luhrmann (1962), John Farrow (1904), Christopher Doyle (1952), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Bruce Beresford (1940), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), and John Pilger (1939).

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