Robert Zemeckis
American screenwriter, film producer and director (born 1952)
- Fame63.9
- Momentum1.9
- Writers rank#228
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- Fame63.9
- Momentum1.9
- Writers rank#228
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Born 1952 · age 74United States
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He put a DeLorean through time, dropped a cartoon rabbit into noir Los Angeles, and sat Tom Hanks on a bench that half the planet can quote from memory. Zemeckis doesn't chase trends—he builds the visual-effects scaffolding other directors climb on later.
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Born May 14, 1951, Zemeckis won a Student Academy Award at USC in 1973 for A Field of Honor, then spent the late '70s and early '80s directing comedies that showed flashes but didn't break through—I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Used Cars—until Romancing the Stone in 1984 proved he could carry a hit. The Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit turned him into Hollywood's go-to architect for effects-driven spectacle that still felt human, a balance he struck again with Forrest Gump in 1994, which won him the Best Director Oscar. He's since toggled between grounded drama—Contact, Cast Awa…
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