Robert Zemeckis has an estimated net worth of $80 million as a film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is a well-known Hollywood director who has directed films such as “Romancing the Stone,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Forrest Gump,” and the “Back to the Future” trilogy.
For “Forrest Gump,” he received the Academy Award for Best Director. Zemeckis is regarded as an innovator in the use of special effects, particularly performance capture, and has directed computer-animated films such as “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf.”
Who is Robert Zemeckis?
Robert Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1952, to Rose and Alphonse Zemeckis. Carol is his sister’s name. He was raised on the city’s South Side and attended a Catholic elementary school before transferring to Fenger Academy High School. Zemeckis was attracted by his parents’ 8 mm film camera as a child, and he would tape numerous family occurrences. Eventually, he and his buddies began making narrative films with special effects such as stop-motion animation.
After watching Arthur Penn’s 1967 picture “Bonnie and Clyde,” Zemeckis decided to attend film school. He began his college career at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb before moving to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Zemeckis won a Student Academy Award at USC for his short film “A Field of Honor,” which grabbed the attention of fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
How old is Robert Zemeckis?
He is currently 71 years old’
What is Robert Zemeckis’s net worth?
He is estimated to be worth 80 Million.
What is Robert Zemeckis’s career?
In 1978, Zemeckis made his directorial debut with the historical comedy “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” which he co-wrote with fellow USC alum Bob Gale. It follows a group of teens as they try to get into the Beatles’ first live appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in early 1964 over the course of one day. Zemeckis then collaborated with Gale on the writing for Steven Spielberg’s 1979 military comedy “1941.” The black comedy “Used Cars,” co-written by Gale and starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden, was Zemeckis’ second film as director the following year.
Following “Used Cars,” Zemeckis struggled to find work in the industry. He was eventually hired by Michael Douglas to helm “Romancing the Stone,” an action-adventure romantic comedy starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner. T he picture was a sleeper hit when it was released in 1984, and it marked Zemeckis’ commercial breakthrough. In 1985, Spielberg scored an even larger hit with the science-fiction film “Back to the Future,” which he eventually made after his script was rejected by every major studio earlier in the decade.
The time-travel thriller, starring Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, and Christopher Lloyd, was a blockbuster hit and garnered Zemeckis his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In 1989 and 1990, two sequels to “Back to the Future” were released. Prior to the sequels’ release, Zemeckis directed the fantasy period comedy “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” which utilized a novel blend of live-action and traditional animation. It was a major commercial and critical success, winning three Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects.
Following the completion of the “Back to the Future” trilogy, Zemeckis co-wrote and directed the action thriller “Trespass” and the black comedy fantasy film “Death Becomes Her,” both of which were released in 1992. He went on to have the biggest hit of his career with the epic dramedy “Forrest Gump,” based on Winston Groom’s novel.
“Forrest Gump” was the highest-grossing picture in the United States in 1994, starring Tom Hanks as the eponymous character, a dimwitted guy who unknowingly participates in some of the twentieth century’s most significant cultural events. It also won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Zemeckis.
The 1997 science-fiction picture “Contact,” based on Carl Sagan’s novel and starring Jodie Foster, was Zemeckis’s next film as director. Following that, in 2000, he directed two films: the supernatural horror picture “What Lies Beneath,” starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the survival drama “Cast Away,” starring an Academy Award-nominated Tom Hanks. Both were commercial successes.
In 2004, Zemeckis co-wrote and directed his first computer-animated feature, “The Polar Express,” based on the children’s Christmas book “The Polar Express.” It was his third picture with Tom Hanks, and it used the digital animation performance capture technique. Zemeckis employed performance capture technology once more in his next film, a retelling of the Old English epic poem “Beowulf.” It came out in 2007.
Zemeckis went on to write and direct another computer-animated picture utilizing performance capture, this time an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” It was released in 2009 and starred Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. Zemeckis returned to live-action filmmaking with “Flight,” a 2012 drama starring Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance. Following that, he co-wrote and directed “The Walk,” a 2015 biographical drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as legendary French high-wire artist Philippe Petit. Zemeckis has since directed films such as “Allied,” “Welcome to Marwen,” and “Here.”
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