University of California, Santa Barbara UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Occupation
Screenwriter
Years active
1970–present
Notable work
Forrest Gump Munich The Good Shepherd The Insider The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Dune Killers of the Flower Moon
Spouse
Anne L. Peters[1]
Children
5, including Vanessa
Awards
Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2012)
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 — for 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). He also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), as well as Martin Scorsese's epic Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
^Fleishman, Jeffrey (October 19, 2023). "Screenwriter Eric Roth on 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and a life of big scripts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
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 — for...
American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by EricRoth. It is an adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom...
Gump reteam with director Robert Zemeckis, actor Tom Hanks and writer EricRoth for a 2023 release. From 1986 to 1988, Wright was married to actor Dane...
full-length albums of orchestral Final Fantasy music. Roth's son Eric (born 1977) is also a famed conductor. Roth is a classically trained violinist. As a freelance...
Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and EricRoth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily...
Richard McGuire, with Tom Hanks set to star and Forrest Gump screenwriter EricRoth working on the screenplay with Zemeckis. On May 11, it was announced that...
the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. With a screenplay by EricRoth and starring popular actor Tom Hanks, the film premiered in Los Angeles...
Martin Scorsese to direct. During the development phase, screenwriter EricRoth gave De Niro a book to read as research for the role. De Niro became so...
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely...
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