---
name: "David Arata"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-arata"
fi1m_id: "david-arata"
imdb_id: "nm0033153"
tmdb_id: 21204
wikidata_id: "Q3017397"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T08:23:11.401179+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# David Arata

## Identity

David Arata

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-arata
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-arata
- **IMDb ID:** nm0033153
- **TMDB ID:** 21204
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3017397
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Arata, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033153/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21204

Writer. Born 1 January 1950 in San Francisco suburbs, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, San Francisco suburbs, California
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Arata, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033153/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21204

## Biography

David Arata is an American screenwriter and producer. He was raised in the San Francisco suburbs and attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied painting, theatre and film. He subsequently attended the American Film Institute Conservatory.

Arata made his screenwriting debut with *Brokedown Palace* (1999). His subsequent credits include *Spy Game* (2001) and *Children of Men* (2006), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay along with several other awards for the screenplay. He later wrote *The Angel* (2018). He has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Film Institute's screenwriting lab.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Children of Men* (2006), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-men.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Angel* (2018), Writer
- *Children of Men* (2006), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-men.md)
- *Spy Game* (2001), Screenplay
- *Brokedown Palace* (1999), Screenplay, Screenstory
- *Frog* (1987), Writer
- *Inversion*, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2007: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Children of Men*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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