Eric Roth

Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and Dune (2021) — winning for Forrest Gump; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). Roth also worked on screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Roth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 1945-03-22 · New York City, New York, USA
Known for
- Forrest Gump (1994) — Screenplay
- Dune (2021) — Screenplay
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) — Screenplay
- A Star Is Born (2018) — Screenplay
- Scream 2 (1997) — Thanks
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) — Screenplay
- House of Cards (2013) — Executive Producer
- Munich (2005) — Screenplay
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) — Screenplay
- The Insider (1999) — Writer
- Ali (2001) — Screenplay
- Mank (2020) — Producer
- The Good Shepherd (2006) — Writer
- The Postman (1997) — Screenplay
- The Horse Whisperer (1998) — Screenplay
- The Alienist (2018) — Executive Producer