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Eric Roth

WriterHollywood4 credits
Born
22 March 1945
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Nationality
Unknown
Industry
Hollywood
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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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4 of 4 credits have a verdict, together taking $1.68B. The biggest was Forrest Gump at $677M. The rest are still counting, or never reported a budget.

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