Eric Roth

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 — for ''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). He also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films ''Ali'' (2001) and ''Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' (2011), as well as Martin Scorsese's epic Western crime drama ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' (2023). Provided by Wikipedia