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.

Filmography

• 2024Here — Producer, Screenplay, Director
• LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - Director, Back to the Future
• 2022Pinocchio — Producer, Screenplay, Director
• 2021Finch — Executive Producer
• 2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things — Thanks
• 2020Project 88: Back to the Future Too — Creator
• 2020Roald Dahl's The Witches — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• Project Blue Book — Executive Producer
• WHAT / IF — Executive Producer
• Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles — Director, Writer
• Manifest — Executive Producer
• 2018Welcome to Marwen — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2017Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg — Executive Producer
• 2016Allied — Director, Producer
• 2015Back To the Present: The Special
• 2015Doc Brown Saves the World — Writer, Director
• 2015The Walk — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2012Bound by Flesh — Executive Producer
• 2012Flight — Producer, Director
• 2012Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica — Thanks
• 2011Mars Needs Moms — Producer
• 2011Real Steel — Executive Producer
• 2010Behind the Burly Q — Executive Producer
• 2009A Christmas Carol — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2009Looking Back to the Future — Self, Thanks
• 2007Beowulf — Director, Producer
• 2007The Reaping — Producer
• 2006Last Holiday — Executive Producer
• 2006Monster House — Executive Producer
• 2005House of Wax — Producer
• 2005Le court des grands — Director
• 2005The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio — Producer
• 2004The Polar Express — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2003Gothika — Producer
• 2003Matchstick Men — Executive Producer
• 2002Ghost Ship — Producer
• 2002Ritual — Producer
• 2001Thir13en Ghosts — Producer
• 2000Cast Away — Director, Producer
• 2000What Lies Beneath — Director, Producer
• 1999House on Haunted Hill — Producer
• 1999Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection — Director
• 1999The Pursuit of Happiness — Director
• 1997Contact — Director, Producer
• Perversions of Science — Executive Producer
• 1996Bordello of Blood — Story, Executive Producer
• 1996The Frighteners — Executive Producer
• 1995Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight — Executive Producer
• 1995W.E.I.R.D. World — Executive Producer
• 1994DeGenerazione — Thanks
• 1994Forrest Gump — Director
• Johnny Bago — Director
• Tales from the Cryptkeeper — Producer
• 1992Death Becomes Her — Director, Producer
• 1992The Public Eye — Executive Producer
• 1992Trespass — Writer, Executive Producer
• 1992Two-Fisted Tales — Director, Executive Producer
• Back to the Future — Characters
• 1990Back to the Future Part III — Director, Story, Characters
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose — Robert Zemeckis
• 1989Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation — Self, Thanks
• 1989Back to the Future Part II — Director, Characters, Story
• Tales from the Crypt — Director, Producer
• 1988Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Director
• 1987Citizen Steve — Screenwriter
• 1986Amazing Stories — Director
• Amazing Stories — Director
• 1985Back to the Future — Director, Writer
• 1984Romancing the Stone — Director
• 1980Used Cars — Director, Writer
• 19791941 — Story, Screenplay
• 1978I Wanna Hold Your Hand — Director, Writer
• The South Bank Show
• 1973A Field of Honor — Director, Writer
• 1972The Lift — Director
• Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery — Executive Producer
• Barracuda — Executive Producer
• School for Scumbags — Executive Producer
• The Last Mrs. Parrish — Director

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2025A Future on Stage — Self
• 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
• 2025You Know: Uncovering What Lies Beneath — Self
• 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad — Self (archive footage)
• Reunited Apart — Self
• 2017Spielberg — Self
• 2015Back in Time — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• The Director's Chair — Self
• 2013Milius — Self
• 2012Persistence of Vision — Himself
• 2011Brian May's Brief History of 3D — Self
• 2010Tales from the Future — Self
• 2010Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
• 2003Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit — Self
• 2002Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy — Self
• 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
• 1998The Making of 'The Frighteners' — Self
• 1996The Making of '1941' — Self
• MADtv — Self
• 1994Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump — Self
• 1990The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy — Self
• 1989First Works — Self
• 1988Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town — Self – Director
• 1986The Making of Back to the Future — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf — Self