Eric Roth

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Eric Roth (born March 22, 1945 in New York City , New York , USA ) is an American screenwriter and television producer.

Life

Eric Roth is the son of Leon Roth , a film producer and university professor, and his wife Miriam, who worked on the radio. He comes from a Jewish family, which can also be found in his works, and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant , New York.

He made his debut as a screenwriter in 1970 with the film To Catch a Pebble . Roth received an Oscar in 1995 for his screenplay for Forrest Gump . He was nominated for an Oscar for his work on Michael Mann's The Insider and Steven Spielberg's Munich . In 2007 he received the International Thriller Award - Best Screenplay for the screenplay for The Good Shepherd . He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar in 2009 for his screenplay for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .

Roth is the producer of the HBO series Luck and produced a season of the series House of Cards in 2013 .

In 2012 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writers Guild of America .

He is currently working on a reboot of Frank Herbert's Dune franchise and adapting David Grann's Das Verbrechen: The Osage Murders and the FBI for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio .

Private life

Eric Roth lives in seclusion in Malibu . He is one of the victims of investment fraudster Bernard L. Madoff and his accomplice Stanley Chais . In the process, he lost all of his retirement savings.

style

Eric Roth has a very idiosyncratic working style. So he continues to write his scripts with an MS-DOS- based program . His work computer has no internet connection. His scripts are only published as bound scripts.

Eric Roth sees himself as a dramaturge. He first tries to visualize both his own scripts and his adaptations in order to optimize them for the cinema. He also tries to immerse himself in the characters' lives. So he converted the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald into a very free adaptation. In The Strange Case of Benjamin Button , he processed his own grieving process, as both parents died while writing. Therefore, he describes the film as his most personal. Even with Extrem loud & incredibly close , he took liberties and concentrated on the relationship between Oskar and his grandfather and the associated grief process.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Roth Biography. In: Filmreference.com. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Naomi Pfefferman: Writer's Guild to Honor 'Extremely' Talented Screenwriter Eric Roth - Jewish Journal . In: Jewish Journal . January 26, 2012 ( jewishjournal.com [accessed March 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Jimy Tallal / Special to The Malibu Times: Salon Series Continues with screenwriter Eric Roth . In: Malibu Times . ( malibutimes.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Justin Kroll: 'Forrest Gump' Writer Eric Roth to Pen Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' Reboot (EXCLUSIVE) . In: Variety . April 5, 2017 ( variety.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese Team on 'Killers of the Flower Moon' . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ LA Investment Manager South for Madoff Investments . In: NY Daily News . ( nydailynews.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  7. ^ E. Scott Reckard: No Hollywood ending in Madoff investment case . In: Los Angeles Times . December 17, 2008, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  8. ^ 'Forrest Gump' screenwriter Eric Roth uses a DOS program to write scripts . In: UPROXX . September 22, 2014 ( uproxx.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Interview: Benjamin Button Writer Eric Roth . In: gamesradar . ( gamesradar.com [accessed March 3, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA