Peter Weir

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1944 age 0

   Born

2. 1975 age 31

   CreditPicnic at Hanging Rockdirector

3. 1981 age 37

   CreditGallipolidirector

   CreditGallipoliscreenwriter

4. 1982 age 38

   CreditThe Year of Living Dangerouslydirector

   CreditThe Year of Living Dangerouslyscreenwriter

5. 1985 age 41

   CreditWitnessdirector

6. 1986 age 42

   CreditThe Mosquito Coastdirector

7. 1989 age 45

   CreditDead Poets Societydirector

8. 1990 age 46

   CreditGreen Carddirector

   CreditGreen Cardproducer

   CreditGreen Cardscreenwriter

9. 1998 age 54

   CreditThe Truman Showdirector

10. 2003 age 59

    CreditMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the Worlddirector

    CreditMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the Worldproducer

    CreditMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the Worldscreenwriter

11. 2010 age 66

    CreditThe Way Backdirector

    CreditThe Way Backproducer

    CreditThe Way Backscreenwriter

• WAWilliam M. Anderson5 titles
• RBRussell Boyd5 titles
• MJMaurice Jarre4 titles
• LSLee Smith3 titles
• JSJohn Seale3 titles
• HFHarrison Ford2 titles
• MGMel Gibson2 titles
• CRConrad Roberts2 titles
• EHEd Harris2 titles
• SRScott Rudin2 titles

• 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.

  Peter Weir, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Peter Weir, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film.

  Peter Weir, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The feeling that maybe you won't ever get your inspiration back. That's a very cold place to be.

  Peter Weir, CC BY-SA 4.0