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Robert Zemeckis
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 visua…
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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.
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2025
A Future on Stage
Movie Self
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2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie Self
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2025
You Know: Uncovering What Lies Beneath
Movie Self
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2024
Here
Movie Producer
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2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Pinocchio
Movie Producer
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2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV show Self - Director, Back to the Future
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2021
Finch
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Movie Screenplay
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2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Movie Thanks
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2020
Reunited Apart
TV show Self
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2020
Project 88: Back to the Future Too
Movie Creator
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2019
WHAT / IF
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Project Blue Book
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Welcome to Marwen
Movie Director
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2018
Manifest
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles
TV show Director
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2017
Spielberg
Movie Self
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2017
Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Allied
Movie Director
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2015
Doc Brown Saves the World
Movie Writer
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2015
Back in Time
Movie Self
- 2015
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2015
The Walk
Movie Screenplay
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2014
The Director's Chair
TV show Self
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2013
Milius
Movie Self
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2012
Bound by Flesh
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Persistence of Vision
Movie Himself
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2012
Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica
Movie Thanks
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2012
Flight
Movie Producer
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2011
Real Steel
Movie Executive Producer
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2011
Brian May's Brief History of 3D
Movie Self
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2011
Mars Needs Moms
Movie Producer
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2010
Tales from the Future
Movie Self
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2010
Behind the Burly Q
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
A Christmas Carol
Movie Screenplay
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2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Looking Back to the Future
Movie Self
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2007
Beowulf
Movie Director
