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