Screenwriting with Eric Roth 

Windward’s MAFL Presents: “Screenwriting with Eric Roth”
Academy Award® winner ERIC ROTH attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, Columbia University and UCLA. His first produced screenplay was Robert Mulligan’s “The Nickel Ride,” which premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. Among the movies Mr. Roth has written include “The Drowning Pool,” “Suspect, and “Mr. Jones.” He wrote the Academy Award Winning for Best Picture “Forrest Gump,” for which he won the Oscar and the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include “The Horse Whisperer,” “The Insider,” “Ali,” “Munich,” “The Good Shepherd,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” “A Star is Born.” He wrote the screenplays for the upcoming films “Dune,” directed by Denis Villeneuve; and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by Martin Scorsese. He produced David Fincher’s “Mank,” which was nominated in 2021 for Best Picture. Mr. Roth has been nominated for six Academy Awards, three British Academy of Film Awards, three Critics Choice Awards and five Writer’s Guild of America Awards including the prestigious Laurel Award for Screen in 2012, the Writers Guild of America West’s lifetime achievement award. In television, Mr. Roth is the executive producer of five-time Emmy Award nominated Best Drama “House of Cards” for Netflix, “Berlin Station” for Paramount Television and Epix, and 2018 Emmy Award nominated Outstanding Limited Series “The Alienist” for Paramount Television and TNT.