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Eric Roth
Born March 22, 1945 in New York City, New York, USA30 films
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).
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30 films- TBAUntitled Cher BiopicWriter
- TBAUntitled Lee Isaac Chung ProjectWriter
- TBALondonScreenplay
- TBAI Pretended to Be a Missing GirlScreenplay
- TBAComancheWriter
- TBAMidnight VendettaScreenplay
- 2024HereScreenplay
- 2023Killers of the Flower MoonScreenplay
- 2022Laal Singh ChaddhaOriginal Film Writer
- 2021DuneScreenplay
- 2018A Star Is BornScreenplay
- 2015EllisScreenplay
- 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseScreenplay
- 2008The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonScreenplay
- 2007Lucky YouScreenplay
- 2006The Good ShepherdWriter
- 2005MunichScreenplay
- 2001AliScreenplay
- 1999The InsiderWriter
- 1998The Horse WhispererScreenplay
- 1997The PostmanScreenplay
- 1994Forrest GumpScreenplay
- 1994Jane's HouseTeleplay
- 1993Mr. JonesScreenplay
- 1988Memories of MeWriter
- 1987SuspectScreenplay
- 1979The Concorde... Airport '79Screenplay
- 1975The Nickel RideWriter
- 1972The Strangers in 7ATeleplay
- 1970To Catch a PebbleScreenplay