Eric Roth (born 22 March 1945 in New York City) is an American screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). His later credits include The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star Is Born, Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. Roth departed substantially from Winston Groom’s source novel — director Robert Zemeckis noted that the book was “cynical and colder than the movie” — and the chocolates line as audiences know it is Roth’s writing, not Groom’s.