James Schamus
Born in Detroit, Michigan, USA — Sep 07 1959
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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 ha…
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Lust, Caution
Writing
Hulk
Production
Brokeback Mountain
Production
Sense and Sensibility
Production
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Writing
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Writing
The Ice Storm
Production
The King's Daughter
Writing
Eat Drink Man Woman
Writing
Suffragette
Production
Somos.
Writing
Happiness
Production
Safe
Production
The Wedding Banquet
Production
Pushing Hands
Writing
Poison
Production
The Wedding Banquet
Production
Walking and Talking
Production
Alone in Berlin
Production
Auto Focus
Production
Driveways
Production
She's the One
Production
Ride with the Devil
Writing
The Assistant
Production
Taking Woodstock
Writing
Furlough
Production
In the Soup
Production
These Amazing Shadows
Self
McVeigh
Production
Buffalo Soldiers
Production
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
Production
Office Killer
Production
We Grown Now
Production
Dayveon
Production
Arresting Gena
Production
Junction 48
Production
Lola and Billy the Kid
Production
The Myth of Fingerprints
Production
Adam
Production
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Directing
Wonderland
Production
What Happened Was...
Production
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Self
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Self
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Self - Screenwriter
Surviving Desire
Production
The Tomorrow Man
Production
Indignation
Directing
Tortilla Soup
Writing
Love God
Production
MOTV (My Own TV)
Production
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Production
Ambition
Production
I Was on Mars
Production
Frames
Narrator (voice)
The Brothers McMullen
Production
Fatale
Production
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective
A Very Quiet Man
Self
A Sense of Character
Self
College Republicans
Directing
Keep It for Yourself
Thank You and Good Night
Production
Casting JonBenet
Production
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
Himself
A Psychic Mom
Production
That Film About Money