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James Schamus

James Schamus

Production · Born 1959-09-07 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Biography

James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee, the co-founder of the production company Good Machine, and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company Focus Features, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. He is currently president of the New York–based production company Symbolic Exchange and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1989. Schamus was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a Jewish family.He is the son of Clarita (Gershowitz) Karlin and Julian John Schamus and was raised in Los Angeles. He is married to writer Nancy Kricorian, with whom he has two children. His output includes writing or co-writing The Ice Storm, Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hulk (all directed by Ang Lee) and producing Brokeback Mountain and Alone in Berlin. At Focus he oversaw the production and distribution of Lost in Translation, Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Coraline, and The Kids Are All Right. In…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (2021) — Self - Screenwriter
  2. These Amazing Shadows (2011) — Self
  3. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006) — Self
  4. Keep It for Yourself (1991)
  5. Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery (2013) — Self
  6. Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation (2011) — Himself
  7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective (2016)
  8. Frames (2019) — Narrator (voice)
  9. That Film About Money (2014)
  10. A Sense of Character (2009) — Self
  11. A Very Quiet Man (2009) — Self
  12. The Making of 'Hulk' (2003) — Self
  13. Evolution of the Hulk (2003) — Self
  14. The Incredible Ang Lee (2003) — Self
  15. A Feast for the Eyes: Ang Lee in Taipei (2002) — Self

Directed

  1. Indignation (2016) — Director
  2. 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
  3. That Film About Money (2014) — Director
  4. Frames (2019) — Director