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 timetravel Back to the Future film series as well as the Academy Awardwinning liveactionanimation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare including 1994s Forrest Gump for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director His films are characterized by an interest in stateoftheart 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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