Eric Roth

Eric Roth

1945-03-22 New York City, New York, USA 35 Credits

Biography

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), an...

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The President's Cake

The President's Cake

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

It’s “draw day” across Iraq, when schools select students for the honour of bringing items to their mandatory local celebrations of President Saddam H...

Bunny

Bunny

2025

as Franklin

Acting

Two best friends rally the neighbors in their tenement building to help them hide a dead body over the best/worst night of their lives.

One Girl Infinite

One Girl Infinite

2025

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

Two teenage girls, Yin Jia and Tong Tong, live together in this colour-drenched vision of Changsha, China. When Tong Tong drifts away and falls in wit...

Here

Here

2024

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope a...

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the myste...

Laal Singh Chaddha

Laal Singh Chaddha

2022

Original Film Writer

6.4
Writing

Events in India's history — from the Emergency and the famous Cricket World Cup win to the Punjab riots — unfold from the perspective of an innocent S...

Dune

Dune

2021

Screenplay

7.8
Writing

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the un...

Mank

Mank

2020

Producer

6.7
Producing

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the sc...

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

2018

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big a...

Ellis

Ellis

2015

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose purs...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a s...

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009

as Self

6.9
Acting

A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Finch...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Screenplay, Story

7.6
Writing

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Lucky You

Lucky You

2007

Screenplay, Story

5.6
Writing

A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poke...

The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

2006

Writer

6.3
Writing

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...

Munich

Munich

2005

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Ali

Ali

2001

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an enti...

The Insider

The Insider

1999

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer

1998

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

The Postman

The Postman

1997

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this ...

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump

1994

Screenplay

8.5
Writing

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what any...

Jane's House

Jane's House

1994

Teleplay

5.0

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When he unexpectedly falls in love with Mary, a former ...

Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones

1993

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his t...

Memories of Me

Memories of Me

1988

Writer

5.2
Writing

After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king...

Suspect

Suspect

1987

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and ...

The Concorde... Airport '79

The Concorde... Airport '79

1979

Screenplay

4.7
Writing

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alp...

The Nickel Ride

The Nickel Ride

1975

Writer

5.5
Writing

A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.

The Strangers in 7A

The Strangers in 7A

1972

Teleplay

6.2

A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices.

To Catch a Pebble

1970

Screenplay

Writing

An American stewardess escaping from a bad relationship flees to Israel. She gets involved with an Israeli who takes her to the kibbutz where he grew ...

Untitled Cher Biopic

N/A

Writer

Writing

Plot unknown at this time.

Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project

N/A

Writer

Writing

A "small love story" by Lee Isaac Chung.

I'm Waiting for You

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A man journeys through time and space in an increasingly desperate and unlikely attempt to reunite with his fiancée. However, small incidents wreak ha...

Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

In the 2130s, a team of astronauts is tasked with intercepting a mysterious 50-by-20-kilometre cylindrical alien starship that enters the solar system...

London

London

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

Crime thriller based on a short story by Jo Nesbø.

I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob a family, only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.