WGA honors Roth

Eric Roth will get the Authors Guild of America West's Laurel Award for Screen, praising lifetime achievement in outstanding writing for movies. The award will be provided in the West Coast ceremony on February. 19 in the Hollywood Palladium. "Eric Roth's has tracked the bigger length of our background and the more compact, individual arcs from the human existence. With poetry and humor, he's illuminated some time and love and moral responsibility. He's made visiting the movies both a stirring emotional education along with a true pleasure," stated WGAW Leader Christopher Keyser. Roth's Academy Award- and WGA Award-winning career has spanned 4 decades and includes "Forrest Gump," "The Insider," "Ali," in addition to the 2010 "Very Noisy and extremely Close." Presently, Roth reaches work penning an authentic space-designed feature film for Warner Bros., in addition to becoming co-executive producer around the new drama series "Luck" and executive producer around the political suspense series "House of Cards." Previous those who win from the WGAW's Laurel Award for Screen include Horton Foote, David Mamet, Lawrence Kasdan, Robert Benton, Budd Schulberg, Craig Levinson, and, most lately, Steven Zaillian. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com