Eric Roth is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for Michael Mann's The Insider (1999), the Steven Spielberg film Munich (2005), and David Fincher's film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), all of which were nominated for Oscars.
Wins[]
- 67th Academy Awards, 1994
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Forrest Gump
Nominations[]
- 67th Academy Awards, 1994
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Forrest Gump
- 72nd Academy Awards, 1999
- Best Adapted Screenplay — The Insider (shared with Michael Mann)
- 78th Academy Awards, 2005
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Munich (shared with Tony Kushner)
- 81st Academy Awards, 2008
- Best Adapted Screenplay — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (shared with Robin Swicord)
- 91st Academy Awards, 2018
- Best Adapted Screenplay — A Star is Born (2018) (shared with Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters)
- 93rd Academy Awards, 2020
- Best Picture — Mank (shared with Ceán Chaffin and Douglas Urbanski)
- 94th Academy Awards, 2021
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Dune: Part One (shared with Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve)