James Schamus
Production
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…
Filmography
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The Boroughs
2026
Son-in-Law
2026
The Wedding Banquet
2025
McVeigh
2024
We Grown Now
2024
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
2023
The King's Daughter
2022
Somos.
2021
Driveways
2020
The Assistant
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Frames
2019
Adam
2019
The Tomorrow Man
2019
Furlough
2018
Dayveon
2017
Casting JonBenet
2017
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective
2016
Indignation
2016
Junction 48
2016
Alone in Berlin
2016
Suffragette
2015
That Film About Money
2014
Taking Woodstock
2009
Lust, Caution
2007
Brokeback Mountain
2005
Hulk
2003
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
Auto Focus
2002
Tortilla Soup
2001
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Love God
1999
Ride with the Devil
1999
Lola and Billy the Kid
1999
Happiness
1998
Office Killer
1997
Wonderland
1997
The Ice Storm
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
Arresting Gena
1997
She's the One
1996
Walking and Talking
1996
Sense and Sensibility
1995
The Brothers McMullen
1995
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
1995
Safe
1995
What Happened Was...
1994
Eat Drink Man Woman
1994
A Psychic Mom
A Psychic Mom
1993
The Wedding Banquet
1993
MOTV (My Own TV)
1993
In the Soup
1992
Ambition
1992
Thank You and Good Night
1992
Surviving Desire
1992
Pushing Hands
1991
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
1991
I Was on Mars
1991
Poison
1991
Keep It for Yourself
1991
Fatale
Fatale
The Spacesuit
The Spacesuit
