Eric Roth

American screenwriter (born 1945)

Eric R. Roth 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 the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 1 film (1998) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1998 The Horse whisperer Robert Redford 169 min Color