Director
Robert Zemeckis
16 films•1984–2016•Adventure · Drama · Comedy
72%average critics74%average audience$129.0Mdomestic average
Films
16
1984–2016
Domestic
$2.06B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.30B
lifetime
Avg opening
$19.7M
3-day
Avg legs
6.47x
opening → total
Return
3.4x
on $1.25B of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Forrest Gump | 1994 | $24.5M | $327.0M | 13.4x | $678.0M | A+ | 75% | — |
 Cast Away | 2000 | $28.9M | $234.0M | 8.09x | $430.0M | B | 88% | #2 |
 Back to the Future | 1985 | $11.3M | $225.0M | — | $398.2M | — | 93% | — |
 The Polar Express | 2004 | $23.3M | $163.0M | 6.98x | $286.0M | A+ | 55% | #10 |
 What Lies Beneath | 2000 | $29.7M | $155.0M | 5.23x | $291.0M | B+ | 49% | #10 |
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | $11.2M | $154.1M | 13.7x | $351.5M | — | 96% | — |
 A Christmas Carol | 2009 | $30.1M | $138.0M | 4.59x | $325.0M | B+ | 52% | #21 |
 Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | $27.8M | $118.5M | 4.30x | $332.0M | — | 63% | — |
 Contact | 1997 | $20.6M | $100.9M | 4.90x | $165.9M | — | 69% | — |
 Flight | 2012 | $24.9M | $93.8M | 3.77x | $162.0M | A- | 77% | #32 |
 Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | $23.7M | $88.1M | 3.70x | $244.1M | — | 79% | — |
 Beowulf | 2007 | $27.5M | $82.3M | 2.99x | $196.0M | B- | 71% | #32 |
 Romancing the Stone | 1984 | $5.1M | $75.1M | 14.7x | $115.1M | — | 86% | — |
 Death Becomes Her | 1992 | $12.1M | $58.4M | 4.80x | $149.0M | — | 58% | — |
 Allied | 2016 | $12.7M | $40.1M | 3.20x | $119.3M | — | 60% | — |
 The Walk | 2015 | $1.6M | $10.2M | 2.70x | $61.5M | — | 83% | — |
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
0$250M$500M
Romancing the Stone1984Back to the Future1985Who Framed Roger Rabbit1988Back to the Future Part II1989Back to the Future Part III1990Death Becomes Her1992Forrest Gump1994Contact1997Cast Away2000What Lies Beneath2000The Polar Express2004Beowulf2007A Christmas Carol2009Flight2012The Walk2015Allied2016DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.4x
$4.19B worldwide on $1.25B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.99BInternational $2.20B
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, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#5Most weekends in the top 10Forrest Gump26 weekends#6Most weeks at #1Back to the Future11 weeks#6Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Cast Away+7.3%#8Most weekends in the top 10Back to the Future25 weekends#14Biggest horror filmsWhat Lies Beneath$155.5M#15Biggest 8th weekendsForrest Gump$9.9M#19All-time G domesticThe Polar Express$162.8M
Top 7 of 9 placings across 8 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
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.