Robert Zemeckis
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Biography
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Though Zemeckis has often been pigeonholed as a director interested only in effects, his work has been defended by several critics, including David Thomson, who wrote that "No other contemporary director has used special effects to more dramatic and narrative purpose."
Known For
Production Credits
Pinocchio
Ghost Ship
The Frighteners
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Contact
Real Steel
Beowulf
Mars Needs Moms
Forrest Gump
The Walk
Trespass
The Pursuit of Happiness
A Christmas Carol
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Cast Away
Back to the Future Part III
Thir13en Ghosts
Welcome to Marwen
Perversions of Science
Johnny Bago
House of Wax
Back to the Future
Flight
Real Steel
WHAT / IF
The Reaping
Back to the Future Part II
Death Becomes Her
Amazing Stories
Finch
Last Holiday
Tales from the Crypt
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Gothika
1941
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Back to the Future
The Polar Express
Allied
Manifest
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