Robert Zemeckis
- Directing
- May 14, 1951 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Zemeckis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- A Future on Stage · Self
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story · Self
- You Know: Uncovering What Lies Beneath · Self
- Here · Producer, Screenplay
- Tom Hanks: The Nomad · Self
- Pinocchio · Producer, Screenplay
- LIGHT & MAGIC · Self
- Finch · Executive producer
- Roald Dahl's The Witches · Screenplay, Director
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things · Thanks
- Reunited Apart · Self
- Project 88: Back to the Future Too · Creator
- WHAT / IF · Executive producer
- Project Blue Book · Executive producer
- Welcome to Marwen · Director, Screenplay
- Manifest · Executive producer, Producer
- Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles · Director, Writer
- Spielberg · Self
- Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg · Executive producer
- Allied · Director, Producer
- Doc Brown Saves the World · Writer, Director
- Back in Time · Self
- Back To the Present: The Special
- The Walk · Screenplay, Director
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- The Director's Chair · Self
- Milius · Self
- Bound by Flesh · Executive producer
- Persistence of Vision · Self
- Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica · Thanks
- Flight · Producer, Director
- Real Steel · Executive producer
- Brian May's Brief History of 3D · Self
- Mars Needs Moms · Producer
- Tales from the Future · Self
- Behind the Burly Q · Executive producer
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · Self
- A Christmas Carol · Screenplay, Director
- Looking Back to the Future · Self, Thanks
- Beowulf · Director, Producer
- The Reaping · Producer
- Monster House · Executive producer
- Last Holiday · Executive producer
- Le court des grands · Director
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio · Producer
- House of Wax · Producer
- The Polar Express · Screenplay, Director
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing · Self
- Gothika · Producer
- Matchstick Men · Executive producer
- Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit · Self
- Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy · Self
- Ghost Ship · Producer
- Ritual · Producer
- Thir13en Ghosts · Producer
- Cast Away · Director, Producer
- What Lies Beneath · Director, Producer
- House on Haunted Hill · Producer
- The Pursuit of Happiness · Director
- Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection · Director
- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic · Self
- The Making of 'The Frighteners' · Self
- Contact · Director, Producer
- Perversions of Science · Executive producer
- Bordello of Blood · Story, Executive producer
- The Frighteners · Executive producer
- The Making of '1941' · Self
- MADtv · Self
- W.E.I.R.D. World · Executive producer
- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight · Executive producer
- DeGenerazione · Thanks
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump · Self
- Forrest Gump · Director
- Tales from the Cryptkeeper · Producer
- Johnny Bago · Director
- Trespass · Writer, Executive producer
- The Public Eye · Executive producer
- Death Becomes Her · Director, Producer
- Two-Fisted Tales · Director, Executive producer
- Back to the Future · Characters