Robert Zemeckis
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
Credits
- 2023 · Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · Reunited Apart as Self
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2015 · Back in Time as Self
- 2015 · Back To the Present: The Special as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · The Director's Chair as Self
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2012 · Persistence of Vision as Himself
- 2011 · Brian May's Brief History of 3D as Self
- 2010 · Tales from the Future as Self
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Looking Back to the Future as Self
- 2003 · Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit as Self
- 2002 · Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy as Self
- 1999 · From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic as Self
- 1998 · The Making of 'The Frighteners' as Himself
- 1996 · The Making of '1941' as
- 1995 · MADtv as Self
- 1994 · Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
- 1990 · Parker Lewis Can't Lose as Robert Zemeckis
- 1990 · The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy as Self
- 1989 · Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation as Himself
- 1989 · First Works as Self
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Screenwriter
- 1986 · The Making of Back to the Future as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self