
Robert Zemeckis
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Biography
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing a range of successful and influential movies. He often blends cutting-edge visual effects with storytelling. He has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for five British Academy Film Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Zemeckis started his career directing the comedy films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Romancing the Stone (1984). He gained prominence directing the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990), the fantasy comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and the comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994), the latter of which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
He has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016). His exploration of motion capture techniques can be seen in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009), as well as the action fantasy drama Beowulf (2007) and the drama Welcome to Marwen (2018). He has collaborated with film composer Alan Silvestri since 1984 and directed Tom Hanks in five films.
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Known For
Production Credits

Last Holiday

A Christmas Carol

The Frighteners

WHAT / IF

Johnny Bago

House of Wax

Amazing Stories

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

The Walk

Pinocchio

Real Steel

Perversions of Science

Back to the Future

Tales from the Crypt

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Gothika

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Pursuit of Happiness

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Back to the Future Part III

Flight

The Polar Express

Finch

Back to the Future Part II

Contact

Ghost Ship

Welcome to Marwen

1941

Forrest Gump

Mars Needs Moms

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Here

Trespass

Cast Away

Beowulf

The Reaping

Monster House

Thir13en Ghosts

Manifest

Death Becomes Her

Back to the Future

Allied
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