On May 14, 2019, Oscar winning director Robert Zemeckis will celebrate his 67th birthday. The director developed an interest in film and television at an early age and first worked in his native Chicago as an editor for TV commercials and news programs. This work led him to apply as a transfer student to the University of Southern California film school where his application material included a music video, set to a song by The Beatles. (Not surprisingly his first film would be “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” about a bunch of high school students obsessed with Beatlemania.)
SEESteven Spielberg movies: All 31 feature films ranked from worst to best
He was initially rejected by USC but he begged an official to reconsider and promised to bring his low grade point average up by attending summer school. This brashness would also play a big part in his initial success as a director when...
SEESteven Spielberg movies: All 31 feature films ranked from worst to best
He was initially rejected by USC but he begged an official to reconsider and promised to bring his low grade point average up by attending summer school. This brashness would also play a big part in his initial success as a director when...
- 5/14/2019
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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