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Peter Weir

Australian film director (born 1944)

6.79body-of-work score · ranked #154 of 2631 directors · 8 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
August 21, 1944 · Sydney
Nationality
Australia
Work
film director, screenwriter, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Peter Weir
Piotr Drabik · CC BY 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Dead Poets Society

    1989 · United States · drama

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1990 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1989 · Letterboxd Top 250 #112

    1.673 citations
  2. 2
    Witness

    1985 · United States · drama, crime, thriller

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1985 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1985 #5 · Ebert's annual top 10 1985 #6

    1.305 citations
  3. 3
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    2003 · United States · action, adventure, war

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2003 · BAFTA Best Film nominee 2004 · Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #17

    1.184 citations
  4. 4
    The Truman Show

    1998 · United States · sci-fi, comedy, drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1998 #3 · National Film Registry (inducted 2025) · Siskel's annual top 10 1998 #5

    1.104 citations
  5. 5
    The Year of Living Dangerously

    1982 · Australia · drama, war, romance

    Ebert's annual top 10 1983 #3 · Empire 500 (2008) #161 · Siskel's annual top 10 1983 #6

    0.804 citations
  6. 6
    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    1975 · Australia · drama, mystery

    Criterion Collection spine #29 · Roger Ebert's Great Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.413 citations
  7. 7
    Gallipoli

    1981 · Australia · war

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation
  8. 8
    The Last Wave

    1977 · Australia · horror, sci-fi

    Criterion Collection spine #142

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 25 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.