Eric Roth

Biography

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.

Awards & recognition

• ★Laurel Award — Screenwriting Achievement · 2012
• ★Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1995
• ★Writers Guild of America Award
• ☆Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2022 · nominated
• ☆Academy Award — Best Picture · 2021 · nominated