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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."
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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."
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
MADtv
LIGHT & MAGIC
Waking Sleeping Beauty
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
The Movies That Made Us
Back To the Present: The Special
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Production Credits
Johnny Bago
Amazing Stories
Back to the Future
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Manifest
Cast Away
Tales from the Crypt
WHAT / IF
The Pursuit of Happiness
Ghost Ship
Perversions of Science
Contact
Forrest Gump
The Walk
The Frighteners
Last Holiday
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
A Christmas Carol
1941
Trespass
Allied
Monster House
Finch
The Reaping
Flight
Thir13en Ghosts
Here
Back to the Future
Real Steel
The Polar Express
Mars Needs Moms
Beowulf
Welcome to Marwen
Back to the Future Part III
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Death Becomes Her
Back to the Future Part II
House of Wax
Gothika
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Pinocchio
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