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ERIC ROTH (Screenplay by) won the Academy Award and Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Roth also received an Oscar nomination, a Writers Guild nomination and the Humanitas Award for his screenplay for The Insider, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe and directed by Michael Mann.
Eric Roth attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, Columbia University and UCLA. He won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award while attending UCLA. His first produced screenplay was The Nickel Ride, in 1975, directed by Robert Mulligan, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Among the films Roth has written or co-written are Suspect, with Cher and Dennis Quaid; Mr. Jones, starring Richard Gere and directed by Mike Figgis; The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford; and Ali, for Michael Mann, and starring Will Smith in the title role.
Upcoming for Roth are the films The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro; and Lucky You, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall. He is currently working on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for producer Kathleen Kennedy; The Hatfields and the McCoys, for Brad Pitt's Plan B Productions; and an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, for producer Scott Rudin.
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