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