Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis was born in 1951 in Chicago and as a child shot his first films with his parents' eight-millimetre camera. He began his studies at Northern Illinois University in 1969, spent a summer editing items for a Chicago news channel, as well as commercials, then moved on to the University of Southern California, from which he graduated in 1973; his student short film won an Academy award there. Steven Spielberg, who became his mentor, produced his first feature film in 1978, and he achieved popular success in 1984.

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• CinemaForrest GumpRobert Zemeckis · 1994Cinema