Talk:Robert Zemeckis

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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_American) 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 — 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

@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.