Eric Roth

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Eric Roth (born 1945) is an American screenwriter.

He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplay for Michael Mann's The Insider (1999) and for the controversial Steven Spielberg film Munich (2005). He has got a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from UCLA Film School.

Roth is Jewish.^[1]

[edit] Selected filmography

• Shantaram (2007)
• Benjamin Button (2007)
• Lucky You (2006)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• Munich (2005)
• Ali (2001)
• The Insider (1999)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)
• The Postman (1997)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Suspect (1987)

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Eric Roth at the IMDB