Peter Weir
Audiences rate Peter Weir’s films higher than 90% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Truman Show (Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · Gallipoli (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Picnic at Hanging Rock (Xumo Play) · Green Card (Hoopla) · The Year of Living Dangerously (Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi) · Witness (Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla).
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The ThumbScore for Peter Weir (78.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 13 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Peter's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Weir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born 1944-08-21 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
On ThumbScore, Peter Weir appears in 13 films with an average audience score of 78.8%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
