| Helmed the wildly successful Back to the Future trilogy. |
| Won a Special Jury Award for his 1973 short A Field of Honor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Second Annual Student Film Awards. |
| Made his feature-film directing debut in 1978 with the Beatles-themed comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand. |
| Received the Saturn Awards' George Pal Memorial Award in 1994. |
| Was nominated for Best Director at the 1988 Directors Guild Awards for the live-action/cartoon hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and won in 1994 for Forrest Gump. |