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VENICE (Reuters) Peter Weir, the Australian director of The Truman Show, Gallipoli and Dead Poets Society, was handed a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, and advised young film-makers to unplug to get ahead...
Weir, 80, made his international breakthrough with the 1975 arthouse classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, before moving on to work in Hollywood, making Witness, starring Harrison Ford, Green Card, with Andie MacDowell, and other hits...
He received an Honorary Oscar Award in 2022 and confirmed earlier this year that he was retiring from directing..
You have to travel alone.. To honour Weir, Venice screened his 2003 film, the seafaring epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, with Russell Crowe in the lead role...
He said the producers had originally wanted to make a sequel, but scrapped the plan because the movie didnt do well enough at the box office a decision that came as something of a relief to Weir...
