---
name: "Timothy J. Sexton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/timothy-j-sexton"
fi1m_id: "timothy-j-sexton"
imdb_id: "nm0786694"
tmdb_id: 58588
wikidata_id: "Q3529067"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 November 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T14:06:10.085045+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."
---

# Timothy J. Sexton

## Identity

Timothy J. Sexton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/timothy-j-sexton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** timothy-j-sexton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0786694
- **TMDB ID:** 58588
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3529067
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3529067, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58588

Writer. Born 6 November 1959 in St. Louis, MO.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 November 1959, St. Louis, MO
- **Active:** 2006–2014
- **Also known as:** Tim Sexton
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3529067, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58588

## Biography

Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter and producer, also credited as Tim Sexton. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he studied English at Colorado College. He worked as a copywriter, journalist and translator, including four years in Mexico, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting.

His credits include the teleplay for the HBO film *For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story* (2000), which earned a Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award, and co-writing the screenplay for *Children of Men* (2006) with Alfonso Cuarón and others; the latter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other film work includes *Cesar Chavez* (2014) and *The Liberator* (2013). He has written episodes of *Chicago P.D.* (2015–2020) and created the series *The Lottery* (2014), on which he also served as executive producer.

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, xwhos.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

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

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Fi1m 87, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Cesar Chavez* (2014), Writer
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, Writer
- *Gravity* (2013), Thanks — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)
- *The Liberator* (2013), Screenplay
- *Ghost Recon: Alpha* (2012), Writer
- *Year of the Nail* (2007), Thanks
- *Children of Men* (2006), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-men.md)
- *Walkout* (2006), Teleplay
- *Live from Baghdad* (2002), Writer
- *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md)
- *Boycott* (2001), Writer
- *For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story* (2000), Writer
- *Katuwira, donde nacen y mueren los sueños* (1996), Original Story, Screenplay
- *Billy Please Call Home*, 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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