
Eric Roth
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Roth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dune (2021)
Screenplay

Forrest Gump (1994)
Screenplay

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Screenplay

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Screenplay

A Star Is Born (2018)
Screenplay

Here (2024)
Screenplay

Munich (2005)
Screenplay

The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Screenplay

The Postman (1997)
Screenplay

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Screenplay

Ali (2001)
Screenplay

Suspect (1987)
Screenplay

The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
Screenplay

Lucky You (2007)
Screenplay

Mr. Jones (1993)
Screenplay
Midnight Vendetta (—)
Screenplay

London (—)
Screenplay
To Catch a Pebble (1970)
Screenplay
I'm Waiting for You (—)
Screenplay
I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl (—)
Screenplay

Ellis (2015)
Screenplay





