Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir 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.

21 August 1944

Born on the same birth date (21 August 1944): Perry Christie

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Addison Farmer • Charles Barrois • Dominick Harrod • Frank Pastore • Goran Ćurko • Jack Buck • Jeff Cunningham • Karolína Muchová • Millie Bright • Nicolás Almagro • Patrick Juvet • Usain Bolt • William Murdoch

Born in the same month (August 1944): Anthony Heald • Bill Goldsworthy • Clive Lloyd • Conrad Black • G. W. Bailey • Jacques Demers • Jean-Bernard Pommier • Judith Rees • Kevin Tighe • Martin Linton • Paula Danziger • Perry Christie • Rajiv Gandhi • Tim Bogert