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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Life of a Forestry Ploughman and Other Adventures
- Der Club der toten Dichter - Dead Poets Society von Nancy H. Kleinbaum. Königs Erläuterungen.
- More Ways Than Means
- Report on the Inquiry into Shared and Integrated Education
- A garden of delights & other stories
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Film & TV
Directing · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born August 21, 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), 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…
Known for
- Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self2023
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self2019
- Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections — Self2012
- How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' — Self2005
- Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli — Himself2005
- The Hundred Days — Self2004
- A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' — Self2004
- Walkabout to Hollywood — Self1980
- A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 — Self1975
- Spécial cinéma — Self1974
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 711
- Total plays
- 1,449
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 85,127x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,255x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,888x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,329x
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Quotes
- “Get the right actor, and the job's halfway done. I've only miscast major people twice in my life – out of respect to them, I won't tell you who. After a couple of days' shooting, I had to tell them I was letting them go. It was hideous.”
- “Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, I'm getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use Pink Floyd for inspiration while making a film. Their music contains a sound for almost everything I do.”
- “When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.”
- “The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Lindsay Weir , ( 1944-08-21 ) 21 August 1944 (age 81) , Sydney, Australia
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter producer
- Years active
- 1967–2010
- Spouse
- Wendy Stites ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 )
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Wikidata facts
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- PeterWeirApr2011 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1944-08-21
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- Peter Weir
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- 1968-00-00
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- 1966-01-01
- birth name
- Peter Lindsay Weir
- end of work period
- 2020-00-00
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Peter Lindsay Weir (/wɪər/ WEER; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years, 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 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. In 2024, he received an honorary life-time achievement award at the Venice Film Festival (Golden Lion).
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 The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), 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).