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Eric Roth

Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 22, 1945 (79 years)
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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Known For

  • Forrest Gump
  • Dune: Part One
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Munich
  • The Insider
  • A Star Is Born
  • The Good Shepherd
  • Laal Singh Chaddha
  • The Postman
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • House of Cards (US)
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Ali
  • The Horse Whisperer
  • The Alienist
  • Suspect
  • Lucky You
  • Here
  • The Concorde... Airport '79
  • Mank
  • Before (2024)
  • Mr. Jones
  • Berlin Station
  • The Onion Field

Filmography

2024
Here · as Screenplay
2023
2022
Laal Singh Chaddha · as Original Film Writer
2021
Dune: Part One · as Screenplay
2018
A Star Is Born · as Screenplay
2015
Ellis · as Screenplay
2011
2008
2007
Lucky You · as Screenplay
2006
2005
Munich · as Screenplay
2001
Ali · as Screenplay
1999
The Insider · as Screenplay
1998
The Horse Whisperer · as Screenplay
1997
The Postman · as Screenplay
1994
Forrest Gump · as Screenplay
1993
Mr. Jones · as Screenplay
1988
1987
Suspect · as Screenplay
1981
1979
1979
1975
1975
To Catch a Pebble · as Screenplay
1974

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