The director was jobless until Michael Douglas hired him in 1984 to film Romancing the Stone. A romantic adventure starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner, Romancing was expected to flop, but the film became a sleeper hit.
Zemeckis has said that, for a long time, he sacrificed his personal life in favor of a career. "I won an Academy Award when I was 44 years old," he explained, "but I paid for it with my 20s. That decade of my life from film school till 30 was nothing but work, nothing but absolute, driving work. I had no money. I had no life.
Robert Zemeckis is The Best Movies: Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000)
Academy Awards for Directing (Oscar): Forrest Gump (1994)
Top Box Office: Forrest Gump (1994) - $329,694,499, Back to the Future Trilogy: Part1: $210,609,762, Part2: $118,450,002, Part3: $87,727,583
Guarantee the blockbuster: 80%
Favourite actor: Tom Hanks
Actors who may thank him: Tom Hanks, Michael J. Fox, Danny De Vito
Favourite actress: -
Actress who may thank him: Kathleen Turner
Robert Zemeckis Interview
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