PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
- Feature
- 1975
- 115 Minutes
- Australia
- Language: English
During a rural picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Director: Peter Weir
Screenwriter: Cliff Green
Production Company: .: Australian Film Commission, British Empire Films Australia, McElroy & McElroy
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Awards
British Society of Cinematographer Award, Best Cinematography, Russell BoydCast and Crew
Screenwriter: Cliff Green
DOP / Camera: Russel Boyd
Editor: Max Lemon
Music: Bruce Smeaton
Sound: Sherry Bell
Producer: Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
Director

Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director.
He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement (1970–1990), with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the supernatural thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981). The climax of Weir’s early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously (1983).
After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits—including Academy Award nominated films such as the thriller Witness (1985), the drama Dead Poets Society (1989), the romantic comedy Green Card (1990), the social science fiction comedy-drama The Truman Show (1998) and the epic historical drama Master and Commander (2003). For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer.
Since 2003, Weir’s productivity has sharply declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically successful but financial flop The Way Back (2010).