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