Robert Zemeckis
63 movies · 12 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 14, 1951 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Bob Zemeckis · Robert Lee Zemeckis
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.
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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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Known for
Robert Zemeckis: movies and TV shows
Acting (3)
- 2015
- 1990
- 1987 Citizen Steve
as Screenwriter
Behind the camera (74)
- Upcoming School for Scumbags
Executive Producer
- Upcoming The Last Mrs. Parrish
Director
- Upcoming Barracuda
Executive Producer
- Upcoming
- 2024 Here
Producer, Director, Screenplay
- 2022 Pinocchio
Screenplay, Producer, Director
- 2021 Finch
Executive Producer
- 2020 Roald Dahl's The Witches
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018 Welcome to Marwen
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017 Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg
Executive Producer
- 2016 Allied
Director, Producer
- 2015 Doc Brown Saves the World
Director, Writer
- 2015 The Walk
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2012 Bound by Flesh
Executive Producer
- 2012
- 2012 Flight
Director, Producer
- 2011 Real Steel
Executive Producer
- 2011 Mars Needs Moms
Producer
- 2010 Behind the Burly Q
Executive Producer
- 2009 A Christmas Carol
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2009 Looking Back to the Future
Thanks
- 2007 Beowulf
Director, Producer
- 2007 The Reaping
Producer
- 2006 Monster House
Executive Producer
- 2006 Last Holiday
Executive Producer
- 2005 Le court des grands
Director
- 2005 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Producer
- 2005 House of Wax
Producer
- 2004 The Polar Express
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2003 Gothika
Producer
- 2003 Matchstick Men
Executive Producer
- 2002 Ghost Ship
Producer
- 2002 Ritual
Producer
- 2001 Thir13en Ghosts
Producer
- 2000 Cast Away
Director, Producer
- 2000 What Lies Beneath
Director, Producer
- 1999 House on Haunted Hill
Producer
- 1999 The Pursuit of Happiness
Director
- 1999
- 1997 Contact
Director, Producer
- 1997
- 1996 Bordello of Blood
Story, Executive Producer
- 1996 The Frighteners
Executive Producer
- 1995 W.E.I.R.D. World
Executive Producer
- 1995 Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Executive Producer
- 1994 DeGenerazione
Thanks
- 1994 Forrest Gump
Director
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992 Trespass
Writer, Executive Producer
- 1992 The Public Eye
Executive Producer
- 1992 Death Becomes Her
Director, Producer
- 1992 Two-Fisted Tales
Director, Executive Producer
- 1991
- 1990 Back to the Future Part III
Director, Story, Characters
- 1989 Back to the Future Part II
Director, Characters, Story
- 1989
- 1989
- 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Director
- 1986 Amazing Stories
Director
- 1985
- 1985 Back to the Future
Director, Writer
- 1984 Romancing the Stone
Director
- 1980 Used Cars
Director, Writer
- 1979 1941
Story, Screenplay
- 1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Writer, Director
- 1973 A Field of Honor
Director, Writer
- 1972 The Lift
Director
Talk shows and appearances (30)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2023
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC
1 episode
- 2020 Reunited Apart
1 episode
- 2017
- 2015
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2014 The Director's Chair
1 episode
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 1999
- 1998
- 1996
- 1995 MADtv
1 episode
- 1994
- 1990
- 1989
- 1988
- 1986
- 1978 The South Bank Show
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes