Eric Roth is an Academy Award–winning screenwriter who’s written some 40 motion pictures with a career spanning nearly six decades. He studied at UC Santa Barbara, Columbia University, and UCLA where he won the Samuel Goldwyn writing award as a student. His first produced feature, The Nickel Ride, premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. Roth won an Oscar and the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump, and has earned five additional Oscar nominations for The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star Is Born, and Dune. Mr. Roth has written the most Oscar Nominated Best Pictures (eight). His many other films include The Drowning Pool, Suspect, Mr. Jones, Rhapsody in August for the legendary Akira Kurosawa, The Horse Whisperer, Ali, The Good Shepherd, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here. He also co-wrote Killers of the Flower Moon with Martin Scorsese, which received ten Academy Award nominations, and produced David Fincher’s Mank, a Best Picture nominee. In television, Roth was an executive producer of Netflix’s “House of Cards,” Epix’s “Berlin Station,” TNT’s “The Alienist,” and Apple TV+’s “Before.” In 2026 Roth made his playwriting debut on London’s West End with his stage adaptation of HIGH NOON. Roth received the Writers Guild of America West’s Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012. He lives in Los Angeles and is lucky enough to have many children and grandchildren.
