James Schamus

Produtor, Escritor, Diretor

7 de setembro de 1959 (66 anos)
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.

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Filmes e Séries no Plex

  • A Assistente
    A Assistente2020
  • O Banquete de Casamento
    O Banquete de Casamento1993
  • Criação dos Deuses I: Reino das Tempestades
    Criação dos Deuses I: Reino das Tempestades2023
  • A Arte de Viver
    A Arte de Viver1991
  • Romance entre Amigos
    Romance entre Amigos1994
  • À Espera do Amanhã
    À Espera do Amanhã2019

Conhecido Por

  • O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain
    O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain2005
  • Hulk
    Hulk2003
  • O Tigre e o Dragão
    O Tigre e o Dragão2000
  • Tempestade de Gelo
    Tempestade de Gelo1997
  • Aconteceu em Woodstock
    Aconteceu em Woodstock2009
  • O Banquete de Casamento
    O Banquete de Casamento1993
  • Desejo e Perigo
    Desejo e Perigo2007
  • Comer Beber Viver
    Comer Beber Viver1994
  • Cavalgada com o Diabo
    Cavalgada com o Diabo1999
  • Indignação
    Indignação2016
  • Driveways: Uma Amizade Inesperada
    Driveways: Uma Amizade Inesperada2019
  • Nosso Tipo de Mulher
    Nosso Tipo de Mulher1996
  • A Assistente
    A Assistente2020
  • A Arte de Viver
    A Arte de Viver1991
  • Guerreiros Buffalo
    Guerreiros Buffalo2001
  • O Banquete de Casamento
    O Banquete de Casamento2025
  • Os Irmãos McMullen
    Os Irmãos McMullen1995
  • Quem é JonBenet
    Quem é JonBenet2017
  • Veneno
    Veneno1991
  • Mente Paranóica
    Mente Paranóica1997

Filmography

2026
The Boroughs · as Consulting Producer
2026
2025
2024
McVeigh · as Executive Producer
2023
We Grown Now · as Executive Producer
2021
Somos. · as Executive Producer
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
Benji · as Executive Producer
2018
Furlough · as Executive Producer
2017
A Prayer Before Dawn · as Executive Producer
2017
Dayveon · as Executive Producer
2017
2016
2016
2016
Junction 48 · as Executive Producer
2015
Suffragette · as Executive Producer
2014
2009
2007
Lust, Caution · as Executive Producer
2005
2003
2002
Auto Focus · as Executive Producer
2001
Buffalo Soldiers · as Executive Producer
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · as Executive Producer
1999
1999
The Lifestyle · as Executive Producer
1999
Lola and Billy the Kid · as Executive Producer
1998
Happiness · as Executive Producer
1997
Office Killer · as Executive Producer
1997
Wonderland · as Executive Producer
1997
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints · as Executive Producer
1997
Love God · as Executive Producer
1997
The Sticky Fingers of Time · as Executive Producer
1997
Arresting Gena · as Executive Producer
1996
1996
1995
Greetings from Africa · as Executive Producer
1995
Sense and Sensibility · as Co-Producer
1995
The Brothers McMullen · as Executive Producer
1995
Safe · as Executive Producer
1994
What Happened Was... · as Executive ProducerNo Plex
1994
Eat Drink Man Woman · as Associate Producer
1994
1993
Terminal USA · as Executive Producer
1993
1992
Swoon · as Executive Producer
1992
In the Soup · as Associate Producer
1992
1992
Surviving Desire · as Associate Producer
1991
1991
Pushing Hands · as Executive ProducerNo Plex
1991
Poison · as Executive Producer
1990

2026
2026
2025
The Wedding Banquet · as Screenplay
2022
The King's Daughter · as Screenplay
2021
2016
Indignation · as Screenplay
2009
Taking Woodstock · as Screenplay
2007
Lust, Caution · as Screenplay
2001
Tortilla Soup · as Original Film Writer
2000
1999
Ride with the Devil · as Screenplay
1997
The Ice Storm · as Screenplay
1994
Eat Drink Man Woman · as Screenplay
1993
1991

2021
Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! · as Self - Screenwriter
2019
The Movies · as Self - Screenwriter
2011
2006
2006 Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Winner
2006
2006
The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 · as Self - Accepting Award
2005
1991
Charlie Rose · as Self - Guest
1971
Film · as Self - Interviewee

2025
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force · as Screenplay Consultant
2023
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms · as Script ConsultantNo Plex
2003
Hulk · as Story
1993
Dottie Gets Spanked · as Coordinating Producer
1993
MOTV (My Own TV) · as Coordinating Producer
1991
I Was on Mars · as Line Producer