Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

Director (b. 1951)
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The ThumbScore for Robert Zemeckis (78.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 22 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Robert's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

22
Movies
78.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Robert Zemeckis’s films higher than 88% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Forrest Gump (YouTube, Kanopy, Tubi) · Romancing the Stone (Tubi) · What Lies Beneath (YouTube, Pluto TV) · Allied (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Used Cars (Tubi, Fawesome) · Flight (Kanopy) and 2 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Tom Hanks (5)Robin Wright (4)Christopher Lloyd (4)Michael J. Fox (3)Lea Thompson (3)

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.

Born 1951-05-14 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

On ThumbScore, Robert Zemeckis appears in 22 films with an average audience score of 78.0%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Robert Zemeckis movie, ranked by audience score

Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
1994
👍 94%
Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III
1990
👍 93%
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
1985
👍 92%
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II
1989
👍 91%
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
👍 89%
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone
1984
👍 87%
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
2009
👍 86%
Cast Away
Cast Away
2000
👍 84%
The Polar Express
The Polar Express
2004
👍 84%
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
2000
👍 83%
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her
1992
👍 82%
Allied
Allied
2016
👍 79%
Contact
Contact
1997
👍 77%
Used Cars
Used Cars
1980
👍 75%
Flight
Flight
2012
👍 74%
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
👍 74%
The Walk
The Walk
2015
👍 73%
Beowulf
Beowulf
2007
👍 65%
Here
Here
2024
👍 62%
Pinocchio
Pinocchio
2022
👍 58%
Welcome to Marwen
Welcome to Marwen
2018
👍 58%
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
👍 56%