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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 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 addition to his tenure at Columbia University, he has also taught at Yale University and at Rutgers University. He is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, published by the University of Washington Press. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Schamus made his feature directorial debut with Indignation, an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel of the same name. Schamus also wrote the script for the film, which stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, and Tracy Letts, and is the story of a Jewish student at an Ohio college in 1951. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released by Roadside Attractions on July 29, 2016. He was president of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. He has also been on the jury of the New York International Children's Film Festival and has served on the editorial boards of Film Quarterly and Cinema Journal, as well as on the board of Creative Capital and the Heyman Centre for the Humanities. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Rosenbaum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1959-09-07
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by James Schamus
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Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021-09-27
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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
2013-10-11
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These Amazing Shadows
2011-01-22
5.7
Keep It for Yourself
1991-01-01
5.7
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006-02-12
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Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
2011-11-22
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - A Retrospective
2016-10-18
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Frames
2019-12-14
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Brokeback Mountain
2005-10-22
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000-07-06
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Hulk
2003-06-19
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Hulk
2003-06-19
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Hulk
2003-06-19
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Eat Drink Man Woman
1994-08-03
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Lust, Caution
2007-09-24
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Ride with the Devil
1999-11-24
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Ride with the Devil
1999-11-24
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Buffalo Soldiers
2002-10-31
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The Wedding Banquet
1993-03-01
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The Wedding Banquet
1993-03-01
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Pushing Hands
1991-12-07
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Taking Woodstock
2009-08-26
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Taking Woodstock
2009-08-26
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What Happened Was...
1994-09-09
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We Grown Now
2024-04-19
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Ambition
1992-01-31
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
1995-08-04
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The Brothers McMullen
1995-08-09
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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
2023-07-15
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Walking and Talking
1996-07-17
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The Ice Storm
1997-09-27
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Indignation
2016-07-29
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Indignation
2016-07-29
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Auto Focus
2002-10-18
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The King's Daughter
2022-01-21
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Lust, Caution
2007-09-24
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Office Killer
1997-12-03
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Junction 48
2016-04-15
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In the Soup
1992-10-23
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Love God
1999-12-18
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That Film About Money
2014-10-21
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That Film About Money
2014-10-21
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That Film About Money
2014-10-21
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Surviving Desire
1992-01-22
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Indignation
2016-07-29
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She's the One
1996-08-26
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Dayveon
2017-09-13
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Casting JonBenet
2017-04-28
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Arresting Gena
1997-01-27
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Lola and Billy the Kid
1999-02-12
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I Was on Mars
1991-10-01
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McVeigh
2024-06-07
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The Wedding Banquet
2025-04-18
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The Wedding Banquet
2025-04-18
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Alone in Berlin
2016-02-15
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Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
1991-11-01
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MOTV (My Own TV)
1993-01-01
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The Ice Storm
1997-09-27
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Furlough
2018-03-16
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Safe
1995-06-23
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The Wedding Banquet
2025-04-18
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000-07-06
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Driveways
2020-12-17
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The Tomorrow Man
2019-05-22
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Adam
2019-08-14
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Eat Drink Man Woman
1994-08-03
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Wonderland
1997-10-17
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The Assistant
2020-01-31
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019-12-14
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Poison
1991-04-05
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Frames
2019-12-14
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College Republicans
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College Republicans
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Thank You and Good Night
1992-01-29
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Pushing Hands
1991-12-07
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Suffragette
2015-10-16
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The Myth of Fingerprints
1997-09-17
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Sense and Sensibility
1995-12-13
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A Psychic Mom
1993-09-01
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Happiness
1998-10-11
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Somos.
2021-06-30
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Somos.
2021-06-30
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Somos.
2021-06-30
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Somos.
2021-06-30