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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."
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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."
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
MADtv
LIGHT & MAGIC
Waking Sleeping Beauty
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
The Movies That Made Us
Back To the Present: The Special
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Production Credits
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Pursuit of Happiness
House of Wax
Cast Away
Death Becomes Her
Mars Needs Moms
Forrest Gump
Thir13en Ghosts
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Back to the Future Part III
Ghost Ship
Perversions of Science
Manifest
Here
The Reaping
Real Steel
Back to the Future
Finch
1941
Flight
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Christmas Carol
WHAT / IF
Back to the Future Part II
Last Holiday
Amazing Stories
Back to the Future
Allied
Roald Dahl's The Witches
The Walk
Pinocchio
The Polar Express
Contact
The Frighteners
Beowulf
Tales from the Crypt
Welcome to Marwen
Trespass
Monster House
Johnny Bago
Gothika
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