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."

Robert Lee Zemeckis (nato il 14 maggio 1952) è un regista, produttore e sceneggiatore americano. Zemeckis è venuto all'attenzione del pubblico per la prima volta negli anni '80 come regista della serie di film comici Ritorno al futuro sul viaggio nel tempo, così come del film epico live-action / animazione vincitore di un Oscar Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit (1988), anche se nel Negli anni '90 si è diversificato in piatti più drammatici, incluso Forrest Gump del 1994, per il quale ha vinto un Academy Award come miglior regista.

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Американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и продюсер. Лауреат премии «Оскар» в категории «Лучший режиссёр». Постановщик знаковых картин: «Форрест Гамп», «Контакт», «Изгой», «Кто подставил кролика Роджера», «Прогулка» и трилогии «Назад в будущее»

Robert Zemeckis est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain, né le 14 mai 1951 à Chicago.

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