Eric Roth

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-03-22 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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 Wi...

Acting

Production

1994

Forrest Gump

as Screenplay

2006

1998

The Horse Whisperer

as Screenplay

2005

Munich

as Screenplay

1993

Mr. Jones

as Screenplay

2007

Lucky You

as Screenplay

2001

Ali

as Screenplay

1999

The Insider

as Screenplay

1987

Suspect

as Screenplay

1997

The Postman

as Screenplay

1975

1988

2022

Laal Singh Chaddha

as Original Film Writer

2024

Here

as Screenplay

2015

Ellis

as Screenplay

2007

Lucky You

as Story

-

I'm Waiting for You

as Screenplay

2018

A Star Is Born

as Screenplay

-

2021

Dune

as Screenplay

2020

Mank

as Producer

1970

To Catch a Pebble

as Screenplay

1994

Jane's House

as Teleplay

1972

-

London

as Screenplay

2025

One Girl Infinite

as Executive Producer

1993

Mr. Jones

as Story

2025

The President's Cake

as Executive Producer

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