Eric Roth
| Eric Roth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 22, 1945 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Malibu, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Santa Barbara UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1970– |
| Notable work |
Forrest Gump Munich The Insider The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| Home town | Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Debra Greenfield |
| Children | 5 |
| Awards |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2012) |
Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
Roth was born in New York City, New York, into a Jewish family, the son of Miriam "Mimi", a teacher, studio executive, and radio writer, and Leon Roth, a university teacher and film producer. He grew up in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in New York. He grew up boxing and would credit some of his later successes to it.
Roth went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is part of the class of 1966. He would later attend UCLA Film School as part of the class of 1973.
Roth won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump. He is known for writing his scripts in a DOS program without internet access as well as distributing the scrips only in hard copy formats. He followed his Academy Award win by co-writing screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films including The Insider, Munich, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. While writing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, he lost both of his parents and as a result views the film as "...my most personal movie."
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