Director
Robert Zemeckis
14 films•1985–2016•Adventure · Drama · Comedy
70%average critics74%average audience$141.3Mdomestic average
Films
14
1985–2016
Domestic
$1.98B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.13B
lifetime
Avg opening
$22.0M
3-day
Avg legs
6.13x
opening → total
Return
3.4x
on $1.21B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films directed by Robert Zemeckis, from Back to the Future (1985) to Allied (2016), together grossing $1.98B domestic and $4.13B worldwide. The biggest hit is Forrest Gump (1994) at $678.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to A Christmas Carol (2009) at $30.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Allied | 2016 | $12.7M | $40.1M | 3.20x | $119.3M | — | 60% | — |
 Flight | 2012 | $24.9M | $93.8M | 3.77x | $162.0M | A- | 77% | #32 |
 A Christmas Carol | 2009 | $30.1M | $138.0M | 4.59x | $325.0M | B+ | 52% | #21 |
 Beowulf | 2007 | $27.5M | $82.3M | 2.99x | $196.0M | B- | 71% | #32 |
 The Polar Express | 2004 | $23.3M | $163.0M | 6.98x | $286.0M | A+ | 55% | #10 |
 Cast Away | 2000 | $28.9M | $234.0M | 8.09x | $430.0M | B | 88% | #2 |
 What Lies Beneath | 2000 | $29.7M | $155.0M | 5.23x | $291.0M | B+ | 49% | #10 |
 Contact | 1997 | $20.6M | $100.9M | 4.90x | $165.9M | — | 69% | — |
 Forrest Gump | 1994 | $24.5M | $327.0M | 13.4x | $678.0M | A+ | 75% | — |
 Death Becomes Her | 1992 | $12.1M | $58.4M | 4.80x | $149.0M | — | 58% | — |
 Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | $23.7M | $88.1M | 3.70x | $244.1M | — | 79% | — |
 Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | $27.8M | $118.5M | 4.30x | $332.0M | — | 63% | — |
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | $11.2M | $154.1M | 13.7x | $351.5M | — | 96% | — |
 Back to the Future | 1985 | $11.3M | $225.0M | — | $398.2M | — | 93% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.4 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.4x
$4.13B worldwide on $1.21B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.98BInternational $2.15B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven21.0x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#6Most weeks at #1Back to the Future11 weeks#15Biggest 8th weekendsForrest Gump$9.9M#19All-time G domesticThe Polar Express$162.8M
Top 3 of 5 placings across 5 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.