Robert Zemeckis Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) 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 Dav

User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. magb I did quite like a lot of the stuff on the island, especially the parts where Hanks wasn't talking at all -- showing his character's emotions through physical acting only. But everything that happened after he was rescued was predictable and unnecessary. If I had my way the movie would end much sooner, perhaps even before he was rescued. Stain A big star and a big director decide to do a very small movie. We've seen this Robinson Crusoe stuff before, but this is a well-made, entertaining movie. Tom Hanks has to be the whole show for a very large part of the movie, and he actually pulls it off