Peter Weir, the director of Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, was presented with the inaugural lifetime achievement award from the Australian Film Television and Radio School on Wednesday night.
At an event hosted by Sydney film festival, the AFTRS council chair, Rachel Perkins, called the now-retired 81-year-old director and screenwriter “the greatest film-maker this country has produced”.
Perkins, who founded and co-directed the film production company Blackfella Films from 1992 until 2022, said: “As Aboriginal people, we felt seen in your films.”
Weir was able to “define what we call Australian culture”, Perkins said of the themes of mateship and anti-authoritarianism in 1981’s Gallipoli.
Sign up for the Breaking News Australia emailIt was a unanimous decision to present AFTRS’ first lifetime achievement award to Weir for his “global influence on craft, form and storytelling”.
In his 43-year career, Weir made 13 films, including pivotal works in Australian new wave cinema such as the 1977 thriller The Last Wave starring David Gulpilil, before working in Hollywood on Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show.
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