Robert Lee "Bob" 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 films as well as the live-action/animated film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's
Forrest Gump,
[1] for which he won an
Academy Award for Best Director.
