Flight was a major swing for Zemeckis at the time; up until that point, the 21st century for the director had mostly involved dabbling in computer-animated films like The Polar Express, Beowulf ...

Here are five heartwarming dramas directed by Zemeckis. Forrest Gump, which hit theatres in 1994, is one of Zemeckis's most ...

Zemeckis himself is an experienced pilot who had logged over 1,600 hours in the cockpit by the time Flight debuted, and it took the legendary filmmaker more than a decade to get the project off ...

Flight (2012) Paramount. One of Zemeckis’s more recent hits, Flight follows a drug and alcohol-addicted pilot (Gladiator 2‘s Denzel Washington) who is forced to crash-land a plane full of ...

Robert Zemeckis? That’s easy. He’s a technological wizard, an unsettling populist, a shameless heartwarmer, a blackhearted satirist, an Oscar winner, a frequent financial and critical d… ...

Aviation movies mark a deep and emotional connection with the audience, primarily because of their compelling storylines, ...

Then, in 1985, Schmidt’s career reached a new level when his partnership with Robert Zemeckis began with “Back to the Future,” the first of ten films the duo would work on together.