Rob Marshall is a director. In 2003 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for his first feature film, Chicago, starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere. In 2005, he directed Memoirs of a Geisha starring Zhang Ziyi. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Chicago is a movie musical released in 2002 about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. ... Movie poster of Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden published in 1997. ... Zhang Ziyi from the movie Hero This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang. ...

He went to Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious School of Drama.