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Robert Zemeckis
0 FOLLOWERS • 49 CREDITS • MAY 14, 1951 • 73
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
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The Frighteners
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ht6EfsM5hrsUPSR4ReJQFDVU71F.jpg)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rrRDymHWaQUa8LAsIxJc5OOigea.jpg)
Amazing Stories
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lA4zvjHMICXl5XDpShfemcNSDNv.jpg)
Perversions of Science
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/o8Vl4Vxp5LBth9J6Aa3k6PAefxt.jpg)
The Reaping
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/unagAnzvxkGBaSEC5pGEq95h3ST.jpg)
Johnny Bago
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/frSGNQcWx1ek8dCduFYCux1ho7n.jpg)
Gothika
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1AjXgBM2lkpG3FLQO0f6AK3Bi1e.jpg)
Flight
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bCpMIywuNZeWt3i5UMLEIc0VSwM.jpg)
Contact
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/MYUvfYgzjNByNOPu9CJG4zBDlb.jpg)
Here
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fNOH9f1aA7XRTzl1sAOx9iF553Q.jpg)
Back to the Future
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/crzoVQnMzIrRfHtQw0tLBirNfVg.jpg)
Back to the Future Part III
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/GSeicpK571uoM2ZCRb1YyW2YMG.jpg)
Trespass
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7lLJgKnAicAcR5UEuo8xhSMj18w.jpg)
Cast Away
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jKuDyqx7jrjiR9cDzB5pxzhJAdv.jpg)
Finch
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5ynWWapdl45hJXUh0KIevxSG9JQ.jpg)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dOULsxYQFsOR0cEBBB20xnjJkPD.jpg)
Welcome to Marwen
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Mars Needs Moms
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Tales from the Cryptkeeper
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6sgVnE0oMsnunGuFxWWREB6ELSN.jpg)
Back to the Future
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/x4xf8bd5GZB1FZw2FldfCKLWkOD.jpg)
WHAT / IF
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Real Steel
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/42FrsGqERVyIUNtjGFTBji2L2Lp.jpg)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sV4lXM32quwminL3TP36nlNPp7Q.jpg)
Allied
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/eTemCphrglLKrXOsNRhYezHA7H9.jpg)
Manifest
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tiESRqurrZwAC0hpERogOsBhjeg.jpg)
The Walk
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/eOoCzH0MqeGr2taUZO4SwG416PF.jpg)
The Polar Express
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vWcXU9J2RxyHN9qRXW3GDhG40t3.jpg)
Death Becomes Her
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6yrrddjIjx0ElCRZp5pTZeqrj3k.jpg)
Thir13en Ghosts
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/265Gpw7wSwwMkUQlksot8B2chRg.jpg)
Tales from the Crypt
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/khcU8msd2NooJwmcvwbWguvkCzU.jpg)
Last Holiday
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/52Bn5yC6IHQuVxPUza3Q6RZCZTu.jpg)
1941
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jSO5PJrA83ov5rR7ScqCQWpcDv3.jpg)
Beowulf
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/arw2vcBveWOVZr6pxd9XTd1TdQa.jpg)
Forrest Gump
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hQq8xZe5uLjFzSBt4LanNP7SQjl.jpg)
Back to the Future Part II
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qT9jhRnf67dmMNpX2FmNPMeuW57.jpg)
Ghost Ship
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/g8sclIV4gj1TZqUpnL82hKOTK3B.jpg)
Pinocchio
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/n6JIMhXNGGbsSnBazAZeB427CpC.jpg)
The Pursuit of Happiness
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4GIeI5K5YdDUkR3mNQBoScpSFEf.jpg)
Real Steel
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aCLSgw1DaqkRvosYc3YUttBTtpT.jpg)
House of Wax
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/t41VHjYItCYHBh2hijsTID44cNv.jpg)
A Christmas Carol
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