Eric Roth
Eric Roth was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 22nd, 1945 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 79, Eric Roth biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter.
He has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich, Germany) and A Star Is Born (2018), winning for Forrest Gump.
He also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).
Early life and education
Roth was born in New York City, New York, into a Jewish family, the son of Miriam "Mimi," a lecturer, studio manager, and radio writer, as well as Leon Roth, a university instructor and film director. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He grew up boxing and would attribute some of his later successes to habits learned from the sport.
Roth went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated in 1966. He later attended UCLA Film School as part of the 1973 class.
Personal life
Roth lives in Santa Monica, California. He has five children, including documentary filmmaker Vanessa Roth and filmmakers Geoffrey Roth and Alec Roth; and six grandchildren.
Roth was one of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme defrauded via Stanley Chais. He claimed that his losses were high and that he had lost his retirement funds, but the full extent is uncertain. Roth sued Chais' estate as a result of the fraud and subsequent losses.
Career
Forrest Gump's Best Adapted Screenplay, Roth received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is best known for coding his scripts in a DOS environment without internet access, as well as releasing the scripts only in hard copy forms. He reacted with Academy Award-winning screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films, including The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and A Star Is Born. He lost both of his parents while writing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and as a result, the film is regarded as "my most personal film."