Robert Zemeckis Biography
Robert Lee Zemeckis is a renowned American director, screenwriter and film producer, born in Chicago on May 14, 1952. After achieving his first box office success with the film “Romancing the Stone” in 1984, Zemeckis became famous in worldwide thanks to the “Back to the Future” trilogy, made up of three films directed between 1985 and 1990, and his award-winning “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” from 1988, which have become cult hits.
In 1994, Zemeckis directed Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump,” which proved to be his most critically and critically successful work, earning him an Oscar nomination and establishing a fruitful professional relationship with the actor. Other successful titles in his filmography include 1992's "Death Becomes Her," 1997's "Contact," 2000's "The Hidden," 2000's "Cast Away," 2012's "Flight" and 2015's "The Walk."
Zemeckis has also proven to be an innovator in the field of animation, revolutionizing the use of motion capture with his films “Polar Express” in 2004, “Beowulf” in 2007 and “A Christmas Carol” in 2009, all made entirely with this technique.