Academy Award-winning producer Steve Starkey is a longtime collaborator with legendary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. After producing Death Becomes Her, his first film with Zemeckis, Starkey went on to produce and win the Academy Award for Best Picture for the film Forrest Gump. Following their film Contact, Zemeckis and Starkey formed the company ImageMovers with agent Jack Rapke and produced a diverse slate of films, including What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, The Polar Express, and Flight. Starkey is also the author of Breaking and Entering: The Education of a Film Producer (2022) and Stupid Is as Stupid Does (2024). Starkey graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Humanities in 1975.
