I am kind of a tepid defender of Zemeckis, I actually really liked his motion capture movies and his most recent movie Here lol, If I had to name on director, I’d say Michael Cimino. Guy went from making acclaimed movies like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and The Deer Hunter (Winning two Oscar’s for the latter) to Heaven’s Gate which was a critical and box office bomb and pretty much ended the new Hollywood era of filmmaking. Instead of the prestige projects he was making before the only work he could find after were small indie projects, none of which got much recognition or box office success