
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."
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Production Credits

1941

Gothika

The Walk

Manifest

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Perversions of Science

Tales from the Crypt

Mars Needs Moms

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

Death Becomes Her

Monster House

Welcome to Marwen

The Reaping

Contact

Amazing Stories

WHAT / IF

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

House of Wax

Ghost Ship

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Real Steel

Last Holiday

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Finch

Here

Back to the Future

Johnny Bago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Cast Away

Forrest Gump

A Christmas Carol

Beowulf

Trespass

The Pursuit of Happiness

Thir13en Ghosts

The Frighteners

Allied

Flight

Back to the Future Part III

Pinocchio

The Polar Express
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