Eric Roth

Article summary

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 the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). In 2026, Roth made his playwriting debut on London's West End with his stage adaptation of High Noon.

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1. date of birth: 1945-03-22 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 2018 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of death: 2010-09-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373544022