Peter Weir Net Worth
Peter Weir net worth is
$15 Million
Peter Lindsay Weir, AM (/w??r/; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films—many of them major box office hits—including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander. Full Name | Peter Weir |
Net Worth | $15 Million |
Date Of Birth | 1944-08-21 |
Profession | Actor |
Education | Queen's University Belfast, Bangor Grammar School |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Wendy Stites |
Children | Ingrid Weir |
Parents | Peggy Weir, Lindsay Weir |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001837/ |
Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, AACTA Award for Best Film, César Award for Best Foreign Film, AACTA Longford Lyell Award, AACTA Award for Best Direction, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, David di ... |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Producers Guild of America Award for Bes... |
Movies | The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Way Back, Gallipoli, Witness, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Last Wave, The Year of Living Dangerously, Fearless, The Mosquito Coast, The Cars That Ate Paris, Green Card, The Plumber, Homesdale, Three to Go, Love ... |
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1 | His characters often interact with technology, especially television, in ways that harm them or surprise the viewer, e.g. the church big screen TV in The Mosquito Coast (1986); the living room TV and TV control center in The Truman Show (1998); radio playing in the barn in Witness (1985), and so on. |
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1 | I don't think I have any sort of master plan. I work intuitively. |
2 | [interview] I'm still amazed how you can put your pen down and think not a line can be changed... You've finally got it right. You pick it up ten days later, and it's all so bad. |
3 | [on Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)] You often do what you like yourself, and I like not knowing and not making sense. You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker. Hitchcock said whodunnits were the most difficult things because the ending is usually so disappointing. The butler did it? We had to create a style in which the audience didn't want that ending. What interested me was the fact that people disappear every day, seemingly into thin air sometimes, and they're never heard from again. It's a particular kind of suspense for those left behind. And it's very important in many cultures to bury the body and have a sense of closure when someone dies. We like closure. We want to go to the funeral. With disappearance, you never have that. Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries. I was always fascinated by the mystery itself, as opposed to the answer behind it. |
4 | What I can't do is what I consider children's films, infantile subject matter. The caped-crusader-type stuff is not for me...When I began making films, they were just movies.'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas'. Sounds like a porno film because the majority of the marketplace is devoted to children. |
5 | [on Mel Gibson] Mel is the new Australian. He is going to be a very good star. He is quite different from the Australian everyone knows -- the kind Rod Taylor represents. |
6 | [on Harrison Ford] Harrison possesses magnetic qualities. He is capable of filling a room with his personality. If he'd been a plumber and came to fix your tap, he's a person you'd notice. We provoke each other. It's no cozy fireside chat. |
7 | (Referring to the restroom murder scene in Witness (1985): It was the most violent scene I've ever filmed. I still wonder if it was too violent, but I did want to have an outrage over the violence that occured in front of those innocent eyes [of the Amish boy character]. |
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1 | Holds a Law degree from the University of Sydney, one of the best-performing law schools in the world. |
2 | Palm Beach, New South Wales, California [January 2009] |
3 | The White Ribbon (2009) is one of his favourite films. |
4 | He is an avid reader and three of his favorite books are Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, My Century by Aleksander Wat and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. |
5 | He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the Film Industry. |
6 | Interviewed in "Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America", ed. by Jeremy Kagan, Scarecrow Press, 2006. |
7 | Directed 5 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Linda Hunt, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Rosie Perez and Ed Harris. Hunt won an Oscar for The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). |
8 | Father of Ingrid Weir. |
9 | He was a part of the movement dubbed the "Australian New Wave" by the press. They were a group of filmmakers and performers who emerged from Down Under at about the same time in the early 1980's and found work in other parts of the world. Other members included actors Mel Gibson and Judy Davis and directors George Miller and Gillian Armstrong. |
10 | Famous for making well-known comedy and genre actors into credible dramatic actors such as Harrison Ford, Robin Williams and Jim Carrey. |
11 | His films often feature a key scene involving a main character fiddling with their radio. |
12 | His films very often deal with people, who find themselves in surroundings, where they do not fit in (e.g. a Philadelphia Cop among the Amish, in Witness (1985), or a progressive teacher on a strictly conservative school, in Dead Poets Society (1989)). |
Director
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Way Back | 2010/I | ||
Peter Weir: Short Film Collection | 2005 | Video | |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | ||
The Truman Show | 1998 | ||
Fearless | 1993 | ||
Green Card | 1990 | ||
Dead Poets Society | 1989 | ||
The Mosquito Coast | 1986 | ||
Witness | 1985 | ||
The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | ||
Gallipoli | 1981 | ||
The Plumber | 1979 | TV Movie | |
The Last Wave | 1977 | ||
Luke's Kingdom | 1976 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | ||
Three Workshop Films | 1975 | Short | |
The Cars That Eat People | 1974 | ||
Whatever Happened to Green Valley? | 1973 | Documentary | |
3 Directions in Australian Pop Music: Australian Colour Diary 43 | 1972 | Documentary short | |
Boat Building | 1972 | Short | |
Incredible Floridas | 1972 | Documentary short | |
The Billiard Room | 1972 | Short | |
The Computer Centre | 1972 | Short | |
The Field Day | 1972 | Short | |
Homesdale | 1971 | ||
Three to Go | 1971 | segment "Michael" | |
Man on a Green Bike | 1969 | TV Movie | |
Stirring the Pool | 1969 | Short | |
Count Vim's Last Exercise | 1968 | TV Short | |
The Life and Times of the Reverend Buck Shotte | 1968 | TV Short |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Way Back | 2010/I | screenplay | |
Peter Weir: Short Film Collection | 2005 | Video | |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | screenplay | |
Green Card | 1990 | written by | |
The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | screenplay | |
Gallipoli | 1981 | story | |
The Plumber | 1979 | TV Movie written by | |
The Last Wave | 1977 | screenplay | |
The Cars That Eat People | 1974 | screenplay / story | |
The Aunty Jack Show | 1972-1973 | TV Series writer - 4 episodes | |
The Very Best of 'The Aunty Jack Show' | 1973 | TV Movie | |
Homesdale | 1971 | ||
Three to Go | 1971 | segment "Michael" | |
The Comedy Game | 1971 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
Man on a Green Bike | 1969 | TV Movie |
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Way Back | 2010/I | producer | |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | producer | |
Green Card | 1990 | producer | |
Whatever Happened to Green Valley? | 1973 | Documentary producer | |
Tempo: Australia in the Seventies | 1971 | Short producer | |
Count Vim's Last Exercise | 1968 | TV Short producer | |
The Life and Times of the Reverend Buck Shotte | 1968 | TV Short producer |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Homesdale | 1971 | Robert 2 | |
Man on a Green Bike | 1969 | TV Movie | Technology / Mayor of Cadmium |
Count Vim's Last Exercise | 1968 | TV Short | |
The Life and Times of the Reverend Buck Shotte | 1968 | TV Short |
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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You Can't See Round Corners | 1967 | TV Series production assistant - 1967 | |
The Mavis Bramston Show | 1964 | TV Series production assistant |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk | 2014 | special thanks | |
All Is Lost | 2013 | the producers wish to thank: for the "Monkey Bar" | |
Slaves and Ensigns: The Far Side of the Border | 2004 | Short special thanks | |
Much Ado About Something | 2001 | Documentary thanks | |
Blackfellas | 1993 | thanks |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | 2016 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
Peter Weir: Sinema Dersi - Master Class | 2013 | Video documentary | Himself |
Made in Hollywood | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Rencontres de cinéma | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
The Hour | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Cinema 3 | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Breakfast | 2010 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Bandes originales: Maurice Jarre | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli' | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
How's It Going to End? The Making of 'The Truman Show' | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Between Two Worlds: The Making of 'Witness' | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Hundred Days | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
Il cinema ritrovato: istruzioni per l'uso | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
A Dream Within a Dream: The making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
Master and Commander: Cinematic Phasmids | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Master and Commander: In the Wake of O'Brian | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Larry King Live | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
2003 Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing |
HBO First Look | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Tinseltown TV | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
The 71st Annual Academy Awards | 1999 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Director |
The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Nominee: Best Director |
La mémoire retrouvée | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Director |
The Celluloid Heroes | 1995 | TV Movie | Himself |
Tonight Live with Steve Vizard | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Director |
John Seale and Peter Weir on 'Dead Poet's Society' | 1989 | Video | Himself - Interviewee |
Peter Weir Industry Seminar 1989 | 1989 | Video | Himself |
Australian Movies to the World | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
Filmmaker Interview: Peter Weir | 1983 | Video | Himself - Interviewee |
Whatever Happened to Green Valley? | 1973 | Documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Cinema mil | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Peter Weir: Short Film Collection | 2005 | Video | Robert 2 |
The 76th Annual Academy Awards | 2004 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Picture, Best Director |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2012 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Top Ten of the Year - Audience Award | The Way Back (2010) |
2010 | Silver Medallion Award | Telluride Film Festival, US | ||
2004 | David Lean Award for Direction | BAFTA Awards | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | |
2004 | Passion in Film Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | ||
2004 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2003 | Britannia Award | BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards | Artistic Excellence | |
2003 | Cinematographer-Director Duo Award | Camerimage | ||
2001 | Outstanding Achievement Award | Australian Directors Guild | ||
2001 | Outstanding Achievement Award | Australian Screen Directors' Association | ||
2000 | Taormina Arte Award | Taormina International Film Festival | ||
1999 | David Lean Award for Direction | BAFTA Awards | The Truman Show (1998) | |
1999 | FFCC Award | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Fotogramas de Plata | Fotogramas de Plata | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | The Truman Show (1998) |
1998 | Screen International Award | European Film Awards | The Truman Show (1998) | |
1998 | Douglas Sirk Award | Hamburg Film Festival | ||
1991 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1991 | Guild Film Award - Gold | Guild of German Art House Cinemas | Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Raymond Longford Award | Australian Film Institute | ||
1990 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Golden Ciak | Golden Ciak Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Jupiter Award | Jupiter Award | Best International Film | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Audience Award | Warsaw International Film Festival | Dead Poets Society (1989) | |
1986 | Blue Ribbon Award | Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Witness (1985) |
1986 | Readers' Choice Award | Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Witness (1985) |
1985 | Hochi Film Award | Hochi Film Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Witness (1985) |
1981 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Director | Gallipoli (1981) |
1978 | Special Jury Award | Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival | The Last Wave (1977) | |
1976 | Golden Charybdis | Taormina International Film Festival | Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2011 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Life Achievement (Other) | |
2010 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Life Achievement (Other) | |
2004 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Picture | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | Empire Award | Empire Awards, UK | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | Sierra Award | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2004 | USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | |
2003 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
2003 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
1999 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Best Foreign Film Award | Australian Film Institute | The Truman Show (1998) | |
1999 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1999 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1998 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |
1998 | Golden Spike | Valladolid International Film Festival | The Truman Show (1998) | |
1994 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Fearless (1993) | |
1992 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Screenplay - Original | Green Card (1990) |
1991 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Green Card (1990) |
1991 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1991 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Green Card (1990) |
1990 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Direction | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero) | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1990 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Dead Poets Society (1989) |
1986 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Witness (1985) |
1986 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | Witness (1985) |
1986 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Witness (1985) |
1986 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Witness (1985) |
1984 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) |
1983 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Director | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) |
1983 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Screenplay, Adapted | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) |
1983 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Jury Award | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) |
1983 | Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) | |
1981 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | Gallipoli (1981) | |
1980 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Director | The Last Wave (1977) |
1978 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Director | The Last Wave (1977) |
1978 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Screenplay, Original | The Last Wave (1977) |
1976 | AFI Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Direction | Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) |
1974 | Gold Hugo | Chicago International Film Festival | Best Feature | The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) |
2nd Place Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1999 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | The Truman Show (1998) |