FILM DIRECTOR

Peter Weir

1944 - Today

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Peter Lindsay Weir ( WEER; 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Weir has received more than 2,480,820 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Peter Weir is the 128th most popular film director (up from 176th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Australia (up from 27th in 2019) and the 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."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Weirs by language

Over the past year Peter Weir has had the most page views in the with 358,019 views, followed by French (57,254), and Italian (53,218). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (1,291.33%), Latvian (333.93%), and Greek (108.28%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Peter Weir ranks 128 out of 2,041. Before him are Victor Fleming, Jiří Menzel, Wes Craven, Claude Lelouch, René Clément, and Michael Curtiz. After him are William Hanna, George A. Romero, Nikita Mikhalkov, Wong Kar-wai, Giuseppe Tornatore, and Lasse Hallström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Peter Weir ranks 60. Before him are Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Cevert, Maria João Pires, Rudy Giuliani, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. After him are John Holmes, Askar Akayev, Bora Milutinović, Leila Khaled, Makoto Kobayashi, and Udo Kier.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Peter Weir ranks 20 out of 1,143. Before him are Margot Robbie (1990), Heath Ledger (1979), Paul Hogan (1939), Julian Assange (1971), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), and Jack Brabham (1926). After him are Errol Flynn (1909), Colleen McCullough (1937), Hugh Jackman (1968), John Eccles (1903), V. Gordon Childe (1892), and Robin Warren (1937).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, Peter Weir ranks 1. After him are George Miller (1945), Roger Donaldson (1945), Christopher Doyle (1952), John Pilger (1939), Baz Luhrmann (1962), Bruce Beresford (1940), John Farrow (1904), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), and Fred Schepisi (1939).

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Filmography

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Director
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
Nov 14o 20037.137 / 10
The Truman Show
Director
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
Jun 4o 19988.137 / 10
Dead Poets Society
Director
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Jun 2o 19898.313 / 10