‘I would like to thank motion picture audiences all around the world’ — List of Robert Zemeckis Oscar nominations
Posted: February 2026
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Robert Zemeckis. Robert Zemeckis has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and won 1. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
WON: 1994: Forrest Gump (Best Director) — Other nominees: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors: Red), Robert Redford (Quiz Show)
1985: Back to the Future (Best Original Screenplay (shared with Bob Gale) — lost to Witness (Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace). Other nominees: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown), The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, Aída Bortnik)