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
Gothika
Cast Away
Amazing Stories
Tales from the Crypt
Flight
The Reaping
Back to the Future Part II
Contact
The Walk
Thir13en Ghosts
Trespass
Death Becomes Her
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part III
Ghost Ship
Welcome to Marwen
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Back to the Future
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Pinocchio
Manifest
1941
Real Steel
Finch
Perversions of Science
Real Steel
The Pursuit of Happiness
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Polar Express
Allied
House of Wax
The Frighteners
Mars Needs Moms
Johnny Bago
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Beowulf
A Christmas Carol
Last Holiday
WHAT / IF
Forrest Gump
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