The Australian director Peter Weir, who has signed among others Dead Poets Society AND The Truman Showwill receive an honorary Golden Lion at the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, which will be held from August 28 to September 7, the Mostra announced this Thursday.
“The Venice Film Festival and its Golden Lion are part of the imagination of our profession. Being rewarded for a lifetime’s work is a great honor,” reacted the 79-year-old director, quoted in the festival’s press release.
In the firmament of great directors
“With only 13 films made in forty years, Peter Weir has secured his place in the firmament of the great directors of modern cinema,” greeted the artistic director of the Mostra, Alberto Barbera.
Peter Weir won two BAFTAs, the British Oscars, for directing The Truman Show (1998), a biting satire of the reality show starring Jim Carrey, and Master and commander (2003), a naval epic starring Russell Crowe. In 2022, he became the first Australian to receive an honorary Oscar.
Source: BFM TV
