David Arata
David Arata is an American screenwriter who gained international fame through films such as Brokedown Palace - The Hope Is Last , Spy Game - The Final Countdown and Children of Men .
life and career
David Arata has been in the film business as a screenwriter since the late 1980s. He got his first credits in 1987 together with Mark Herder for the television film Two Frogs in High School by director David Grossman. In the late 1990s, he wrote the script for the Jonathan Kaplan film drama Brokedown Palace with Adam Fields - Hope dies last with Claire Danes , Kate Beckinsale and Bill Pullman in the leading roles. In 2001 he worked on Tony Scott's action thriller Spy Game - The Final Countdown with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt . ForAlfonso Cuarón's science fiction drama Children of Men with Clive Owen in the lead role received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2007 together with Cuarón, Mark Fergus , Hawk Ostby and Timothy J. Sexton .
David L. Arata lives and works in Pacific Palisades, California.
Awards
- 2007: Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2007 Awards for Children of Men with Alfonso Cuarón , Timothy J. Sexton , Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Filmography
- 1987: Two Frogs in High School (Frog) (TV movie)
- 1999: Brokedown Palace - Hope dies last (Brokedown Palace)
- 2001: Spy Game - The Final Countdown (Spy Game)
- 2006: Children of Men
- 2018: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel (The Angel)
literature
- David Arata . in: Film Writers Guide. , Lone Eagle, 1998,
Web links
- David Arata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography by David Arata in: The New York Times
- Films by David Arata with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Arata . in: Manhola Dargis: Apocalypse Now, but in the Wasteland a Child Is Given. , The New York Times , December 25, 2005
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arata, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |