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Eric Roth

1945 - Today

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Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and Dune (2021) — winning for Forrest Gump; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Roth has received more than 2,128,392 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eric Roth is the 2,716th most popular writer (down from 2,518th in 2019), the 3,444th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,264th in 2019) and the 299th most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.1M

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  • 60.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eric Roth ranks 2,716 out of 7,302. Before him are Dezső Kosztolányi, Giovanni Pontano, Champfleury, László Polgár, Henry Darger, and Olympiodorus of Thebes. After him are Kjeld Abell, Paula von Preradović, Vladimir Stasov, André Salmon, Peter James, and Yasushi Inoue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Eric Roth ranks 223. Before him are John Leslie, Wilfried Van Moer, Edwin Catmull, Eric Woolfson, Ferdi Tayfur, and Barbara Kruger. After him are Elisabeth Leonskaja, Francesca Annis, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Joseph Delaney, Thilo Sarrazin, and Revaz Dzodzuashvili.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Roth ranks 3,444 out of 20,380. Before him are James J. Gibson (1904), Chaka Khan (1953), Jay-Z (1969), Dolores Costello (1903), Henry Darger (1892), and Bruce McGill (1950). After him are Julie Harris (1925), Richard Belzer (1944), Moses Malone (1955), Andrea True (1943), Tony Musante (1936), and Benny Golson (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Eric Roth ranks 299. Before him are Michael Cunningham (1952), Harlan Ellison (1934), Alex Haley (1921), Horace McCoy (1897), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), and Henry Darger (1892). After him are Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Harold Robbins (1916), Carl Bernstein (1944), John Zerzan (1943), and Varian Fry (1907).

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