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