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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The President's Cake
2025
Executive Producer
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
2025
as Franklin
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
2025
Executive Producer
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
2024
Screenplay
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
2023
Screenplay
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
2022
Original Film Writer
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
2021
Screenplay
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
2020
Producer
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
2018
Screenplay
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
2015
Screenplay
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
2011
Screenplay
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
2009
as Self
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
2008
Screenplay, Story
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
2007
Screenplay, Story
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
2006
Writer
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
2005
Screenplay
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
2001
Screenplay
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
1999
Screenplay
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
1998
Screenplay
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
1997
Screenplay
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
1994
Screenplay
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
1994
Teleplay
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
1993
Screenplay, Story
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
1988
Writer
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
1987
Screenplay
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
1979
Screenplay
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
1975
Writer
A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.

The Strangers in 7A
1972
Teleplay
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
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
Plot unknown at this time.
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
N/A
Writer
A "small love story" by Lee Isaac Chung.
I'm Waiting for You
N/A
Screenplay
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
N/A
Screenplay
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
N/A
Screenplay
Crime thriller based on a short story by Jo Nesbø.
I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl
N/A
Screenplay
A drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob a family, only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.