
Robert Zemeckis
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Biography
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing a range of successful and influential movies. He often blends cutting-edge visual effects with storytelling. He has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for five British Academy Film Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Zemeckis started his career directing the comedy films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Romancing the Stone (1984). He gained prominence directing the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990), the fantasy comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and the comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994), the latter of which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
He has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016). His exploration of motion capture techniques can be seen in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009), as well as the action fantasy drama Beowulf (2007) and the drama Welcome to Marwen (2018). He has collaborated with film composer Alan Silvestri since 1984 and directed Tom Hanks in five films.
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Beowulf

Welcome to Marwen

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Back to the Future Part II

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Johnny Bago

Back to the Future Part III

Monster House

WHAT / IF

Flight

Amazing Stories

Back to the Future

The Reaping

Allied

Ghost Ship

Here

Gothika

The Pursuit of Happiness

Last Holiday

Forrest Gump

Finch

Back to the Future

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Trespass

House of Wax

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

The Polar Express

A Christmas Carol

Death Becomes Her

Pinocchio

The Walk

Manifest

Thir13en Ghosts

Tales from the Crypt

Mars Needs Moms

Real Steel

1941

Perversions of Science

Cast Away

Contact

The Frighteners
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