Talk:Robert Zemeckis

"interest in Zemeckis has at times been solely limited to his work with special effects"
Is or was there some general online consensus that Zemeckis was only appreciated for his special effects, as the second main paragraph says? Unless there's anything outside of that one NY Times write-up cited, it seems like an unfair generalization given his critical success. Took out for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Somewordswrittendown (talk • contribs) 04:09, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Untitled
I take umbrage with the following: "Zemeckis applied only to University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts..." He attended Northern Illinois University for a few years before transferring to USC. A few sources:

http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/personDetails/104355 http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/10/13/robert_zemeckis_article.shtml

Anyone care to fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.149.143 (talk) 07:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Is Robert Zemeckis really Greek-American? The surname "Zemeckis" might be Lithuanian - e.g. Romualdas Zemeckis (Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics).

Sorry about not answering before, I didn't notice the "History" page. No - he is not Jewish at all. It's a fact misreported by some usually reliable sources, like NNDB. The IMDB has a quote from him: "I was raised a Catholic on the South Side of Chicago, and I felt I had to undo a lot of serious damage. But as I was getting older, I began coming off my absolutely young, arrogant, agnostic beliefs. I was thinking more about coming to terms with human spirituality"... http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0000709/bio

I don't believe he has any Jewish ancestry, either. Sometimes he's listed as being Greek, sometimes as Lithuanian - I'm not sure which.

Thank you for replying - A Greek Wikipedian told me that "the ck gives it away that its almost certainly not greek" though. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Greek_Americans/Archive_1#Is_Robert_Zemeckis_Greek_heritage?) Maybe he is of Lithuanian heritage, because most Lithuanians are Catholic.

The IMDB says Lithuanian - I'm guessing they're probably right this time.

Zemeckis is a Lithuanian name, it says on his NNDB Yugoslavian ancestry, I guess his half Lithuanian half Yugoslavian.

here's the link to his NNDB http://www.nndb.com/people/224/000025149/
 * We need a reliable source. NNDB is an info gathering site with plenty of errors, just like Wikipedia, not a first-hand source. Does anything have anything first hand that he is Lithuanian or Yugoslavian? Mad Jack 05:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed this bit, again. IMDB is fan-submitted trivia junk, and can't be used as a source for anything. Mad Jack 19:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Forrest Gump is regarded as one of the first movies to use CGI for purely narrative purposes, yet it's not mentioned in the intro. I intend to include it, but given that it's so clear stated and in the beginning of the article, I wanted to bring it up here first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prove It (talk • contribs) 00:55, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Selected filmography
Are Zemeckis' first two student films really notable enough to be included in a selective list of his work? The films don't have Wikipedia entries of their own, and are unremarkable outside of the fact that they were early works of Zemeckis. If The Lift is worth putting up, one might as well include the director's childhood fire-cracker home movies. What do others think? Hobbesy3 00:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Filmography
The filmography chart, which is unlike those of most directors on Wikipedia, includes what seem like gild-the-lily awards claims not related to Zemeckis as director/writer. For example, the Death Becomes Her line includes a Golden Globe nomination &mdash; but that wasn't for the movie or for the director, for for Meryl Streep. One could argue that Zemeckis "helped" Streep gain the nomination, but that would be a stretch. The awards sections of biographies are for awards / nominations bestowed on the article subject himself or herself, not for every award or nomination for every single person involved with every movie he or she ever made. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Ancestry
Any Lithuanian descent is suspicious for me, since most "Lithuanian Americans" ar Jewish. What's the proof this one isn't?--108.60.248.184 (talk) 01:34, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Disruptive editor TregRyder001
has been warned multiple times over the past few months not to contravene WP:FILM guidelines by add films are are not in production, and which might never be in production, to the filmography. Multiple editors have warned this about other transgressions, and he was blocked in December for edit-warring. I've asked him to take his issues to the talk page, but he never does. He also forces editors to correct disruptive editors such as this one at Mad Max: Fury Road. A continually disruptive editor, who is wasting multiple editors time, might not be appropriate to keep as a Wikipedia contributor and if his disruption continues, we may be forced to begin ANI proceedings against him. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * User has been reported to AIV.  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 22:38, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Writer of Five Seconds of Silence?
The table here states that he wrote Five Seconds of Silence but if you click on the link to the page for that film it lists someone else as the writer. Did he actually write this? If not it should be removed from the table. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.17.69 (talk) 01:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Zelig reference
The reference to Woody Allen's Zelig (as a source for Forrest Gump) looks to me like an opinion, original research in other words. I will delete within the week unless there are strenuous objections. Point of information too: Forrest Gump doesn't borrow from Zelig. The character from Zelig has no personality, and so he magically morphs into whoever he is close to. Forrest Gump has a very distinct personality. The only point of contact between the two films is in the techniques used by the directors to insert a fictional character into an historical setting. If that's borrowing, then any film that has ever used, for example, stop-motion animation, has "borrowed" from Willis O'Brian. Theonemacduff (talk) 23:16, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

"Compari Entertainment" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Compari Entertainment. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 30 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:18, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Frequent collaborators
If there are sources talking about how Zemeckis has collaborated a lot with a group of actors or production people, then we can have a section about frequent collaborators. I looked and did not see anything except two Deadline articles mentioning Tom Hanks. Since Tom Hanks being a frequent collaborator is not worth having a whole section about it, I removed the section and put a note near Hanks' first work in Gump.

This same topic has arisen at a couple of film biographies, and in one of them there were a ton of sources writing about collaborators. So for that biography it makes sense. This one? Not so much. Binksternet (talk) 02:38, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

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Unsourced birthdate removed
Because it was not properly sourced, and has proven to be contentious (people can't decide whether it's 1951 or 1952), I have removed the date of birth from the article until it can be properly sourced, per WP:BLPREMOVE. Elizium23 (talk) 18:59, 31 May 2021 (UTC)