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Venice Film Festival to Honor Peter Weir With Golden Lion for Career Achievement
The Venice Film Festival will honor Peter Weir with its Golden Lion for career achievement
The Venice Film Festival will honor Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir – whose body of work comprises “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” – with its 2024 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Barbera added that Weir made a name for himself at the end of the 1970s as the leading figure behind the rebirth of Australian cinema thanks to two movies: “The Cars That Ate Paris” (1974) and cult classic “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975). “Witness,” “Mosquito Coast,” “Dead Poet Society,” “Fearless,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander” are the major stages of an artistic career that has conserved its underlying integrity deep within the commercial success of the movies he has made,” the Venice chief concluded.
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