
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

Death Becomes Her

Tales from the Crypt

Ghost Ship

The Polar Express

Back to the Future

Finch

Beowulf

Welcome to Marwen

Mars Needs Moms

Here

Gothika

Back to the Future

The Pursuit of Happiness

Back to the Future Part III

House of Wax

Cast Away

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

Contact

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Back to the Future Part II

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Pinocchio

Amazing Stories

Real Steel

A Christmas Carol

Last Holiday

Trespass

Manifest

Forrest Gump

Perversions of Science

WHAT / IF

The Reaping

Allied

Flight

Monster House

The Walk

The Frighteners

1941

Thir13en Ghosts

Johnny Bago
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