Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

film by Weir [2003]

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Peter Weir
…tyranny of the media, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the series by Patrick O’Brian and cowritten by Weir; the movies all earned Weir Oscar nominations for best director. His other films included The Mosquito Coast (1986), Green Card (1990),…
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…tyranny of the media, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the series by Patrick O’Brian and cowritten by Weir; the movies all earned Weir Oscar nominations for best director. His other films included The Mosquito Coast (1986), Green Card (1990),…
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Russell Crowe
Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, and Robin Hood
…as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the fiction series by Patrick O’Brian. In Cinderella Man (2005) he played real-life boxer James J. Braddock, who staged a timely comeback to help his family out of financial hardship…
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…as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the fiction series by Patrick O’Brian. In Cinderella Man (2005) he played real-life boxer James J. Braddock, who staged a timely comeback to help his family out of financial hardship…
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Richard Taylor
…Australian film director Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and as the creative supervisor for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He also served as a costume designer for Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected…
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…Australian film director Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and as the creative supervisor for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He also served as a costume designer for Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected…
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