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Robert Lee Zemeckis: Academy Award for best director for the film ‘Forrest Gump’ winner is of Lithuanian descent

Robert Zemeckis „The Walk“ at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May, 1, 1952, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Lithuanian American father and Italian American mother and was raised in a working-class Roman Catholic family. As a child, he loved television and was fascinated by his parents’ 8 mm film home movie camera. So, later Zemeckis studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California. However, even before Zemeckis graduated, his work caught the eye of American director Steven Spielberg, who produced Zemeckis and his friends Robert Gale’s first full-length film called ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’.

Robert Lee Zemeckis rose to fame in the 1990s with his trilogy of films ‘Back to the future’ and won an Academy Award for the Best Director for ‘Forest Gump’ in 1995.

Film director has visited Lithuania in 2013.

More: https://walkoffame.com/robert-zemeckis/