Brokeback Mountain
2006
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James Schamus is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and film historian. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee and the co-founder of Focus Features.
James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee, including the films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, Pushing Hands, The Ice Storm, the cult classic Marvel film Hulk, Taking Woodstock and Lust, Caution.
- January 1, 1
- Producer, Writer, Director
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- James Schamus
James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who has worked with Ang Lee on several acclaimed films. He is also the co-founder of Focus Features and a professor at Columbia University.
- September 7, 1959
Dec 1, 2023 · Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter (The Ice Storm, Hulk), producer (Brokeback Mountain), director (Indignation), showrunner (Somos), and former CEO of Focus Features. In addition to his industry achievements, he’s a professor at the School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory.
Nov 26, 2010 · James Schamus of Focus Features makes the most successful “small” movies around. His secret? Spiking the mainstream with just a touch of weird.
Indignation: Directed by James Schamus. With Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman, Jason Jiang, Logan Lerman. In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
May 25, 2021 · Schamus presents the trailer and key art for his new drama series Somos. premiering June 30. Reading Pulitzer Prize-winner Ginger Thompson’s oral history of a little-known 2011 massacre in the Mexican border town of Allende, and of the role the U.S. government played in triggering it, is an experience at once intimate and vast.
