Don’t count on any Ethan Hawke collabs with Russell Crowe or Johnny Depp after the “Dead Poets Society” star chalked up director Peter Weir’s 12-year absence from Hollywood to two leading men who ...

Filmmaker Peter Weir is booked to deliver this year’s David Lean lecture at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in December. By Stuart Kemp LONDON — Filmmaker Peter Weir is booked to ...

"That was a new door that was opened to my brain, that you could play like that." The '90s drama was directed by 'The Truman Show's Peter Weir. The film also starred Kelly McGillis. Farrell is part of ...

Dead Poets Society star, Ethan Hawke, has revealed his opinion on why the great filmmaker Peter Weir stopped making pictures. There’s no arguing that the shortlist of the greatest all-time movie ...

M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Old, aka the movie about the beach that makes you old, drew inspiration from this incredible ...

The vet­eran director Peter Weir, in Washington for a screening of his new movie “The Way Back,” considers the question of whether Hollywood is still capable of making a Peter Weir film — classy, well ...

Warren is a 13-time Oscar bridesmaid, while Weir is the first Australian and Palcy is the first Black female filmmaker ever so honored. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards “The Academy’s ...

It has been more than seven years since the release of Peter Weir's last film, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," and the Australian director laughs at the idea that his hiatus from ...

With “The Way Back,” filmmaker Peter Weir tells the rather unfathomable story of a group of escapees from a 1940 Siberian gulag walking — yes, walking — thousands upon thousands of miles to India.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Peter Weir is the tip of the spear of the Australian New Wave, a collection of Aussie filmmakers including among others Fred Schepisi, Philip Noyce, George Miller, ...

Peter Weir celebrates his 75th birthday on August 21, 2019. With six Oscar nominations under his belt, the Australian-born director has firmly established himself as one of our most respected ...

As one of its final acts, the current Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted honorary Oscars to directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and songwriter Diane ...