The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

Won the Academy Award for supporting actress. Weir's first Oscar recognized film is about a journalist caught in a country that is in political distress. The reporter's original boring assignment is forgotten, as he becomes the only journalist in the country to be able to report the story. He becomes a very hot item in the news world and soon finds that reporting objectively is not always the easiest thing. The story is based from an actual historical event labeled as the "Indonesia Coup" where thousands of working class individuals, suspected of communist involvement, were slaughtered by a CIA organized army. (Written and directed by Peter Weir)