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
Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popula ...
, the co-founder of the production company
Good Machine
Good Machine Productions was an American independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company started in the early 1990 by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus. David Linde joined as a partner in the la ...
, and the former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company
Focus Features
Focus Features LLC is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as part of Universal Pictures, a division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in th ...
, a subsidiary of
NBCUniversal
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NBCUniversal is primari ...
.
Life and career
Schamus was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
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
Nancy Jean Kricorian (born September 19, 1960) is an American author of the novels ''Zabelle'' (1997) and ''Dreams of Bread and Fire'' (2003). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel ''All the Light There Was'' in March 2013.
Persona ...
, with whom he has two children.
His output includes writing or co-writing ''
The Ice Storm
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung . The film features a cast of actors of Chinese people, Chinese ethnicity, including Ch ...
'' and ''
Hulk
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'' (all directed by
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popula ...
), and producing ''
Brokeback Mountain
''Brokeback Mountain'' is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by O ...
'' and ''
Alone in Berlin
''Every Man Dies Alone'' or ''Alone in Berlin'' (german: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) is a 1947 novel by German author Hans Fallada. It is based on the true story of working-class husband and wife Otto and Elise Hampel who, acting alone, beca ...
''. At Focus he oversaw the production and distribution of '' Lost in Translation'', ''
Milk
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'', ''
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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'', ''
Coraline
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Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
's School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. He has also taught at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
and at
Rutgers University
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. 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
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
Schamus made his feature directorial debut with ''
Indignation
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Background
IndigNation begun as a series of LGBT-themed events meant to f ...
'', an adaptation of
Philip Roth
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Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...
Logan Lerman
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,
Sarah Gadon
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, and
Tracy Letts
Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for '' August: Osage County'' (2007), for which he received ...
, 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
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Lions Gate ...
on July 29, 2016.
Schamus participates as a member of the Jury for the
NYICFF New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) Established in 1997, NYICFF’s mission is rooted in the belief of film as a path for young people to understand themselves and others. All programs are designed to celebrate the beauty and po ...
, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. He was president of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
Schamus founded Symbolic Exchange, a film development company based in New York City. In May 2015, it was announced that Symbolic Exchange signed a first-look deal with Beijing's Meridian Entertainment.
Film credits
Executive producer only
* ''
Poison
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Safe
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'' (1995)
* ''
Happiness
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Buffalo Soldiers
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'' (2001)
* ''
Auto Focus
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''Auto Focus ...
'' (2002)
* ''
Suffragette
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'' (2015)
* ''
Junction 48
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'' (2015)
* ''
Dayveon
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* ShowEast's Bingham Ray Spirit Award, October 2016
* 18th annual
Outfest
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Achievement Award, June 2014
* President of the Jury,
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
, February 2014
* Evelyn Burkey Award,
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers:
* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO
* The Writers Guil ...
San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco International Film Festival (abbreviated as SFIFF), organized by the San Francisco Film Society, is held each spring for two weeks, presenting around 200 films from over 50 countries. The festival highlights current trends in in ...
Kanbar Lifetime Achievement Award for Screenwriting, April 2010
*
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...
Independent Icon Award, Sundance, January 2010
* National Arts Club, Medal of Honor for Film, November 2009.
* 9th Annual
Woodstock Film Festival
The Woodstock Film Festival is an American film festival that was launched in 2000 by filmmakers Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto with the goal to bring high quality independent film to the Hudson Valley region. The festival takes place each fa ...
, Trailblazer Award, October 2008
* 19th Annual
GLAAD
GLAAD (), an acronym of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals ...
(Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination) Media Awards, Golden Gate Award, May 2008
*
American Museum of the Moving Image
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Honoree, April 2008
* ShoWest/NATO (National Association of Theatre Owners) Freedom of Expression Award, March 2008
*
Golden Horse Award
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards () is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is us ...
, Best Film, Best Screenplay Adaptation (James Schamus and Wang Hui-ling), "Lust, Caution," 2007
*
Jacob Burns Film Center
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center located in Pleasantville, New York. It occupies the old Rome Theater, a Spanish mission-style theater built in 1925.
Along with independent and documentary films, the cente ...
, Vision Award, September 2007
* British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Best Film, "Brokeback Mountain," 2005
* 21st
Israel Film Festival
The Israel Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the United States in three cities: Los Angeles, New York and Miami. It is the largest showcase of Israeli cinema in the United States. Founded in 1982 by Meir Fenigstein, a fo ...
, Visionary Award, November 2005
* Presidential Fellow in the Arts,
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
, November 2005
*
Producers Guild of America
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing television producers, film producers and New media, New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 8,000 members of the producing esta ...
, Darryl Zanuck Award for Producer of the Year, 2005
*
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975.
Background
Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...
, Best Picture of the Year, "Brokeback Mountain," 2005
*
New York Film Critics Circle
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935 by Wanda Hale from the New York ''Daily News''. Its membership includes over 30 film critics from New York-based daily and weekly newspapers, magaz ...
, Best Picture, "Brokeback Mountain," 2005
*
Out Magazine
''Out'' is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States. It presents itself in an editorial manner similar to '' Details'', ''Esquire' ...
, Out 100 Award, 2005
* Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award,
Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law. It was founded in late Septe ...
, 2005
*
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers:
* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO
* The Writers Guil ...
East, Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to the Guild, March 2002
* NBC Screenwriters Tribute,
Nantucket Film Festival
The Nantucket Film Festival is a film festival founded in 1996 which focuses on screenwriting. Board members include Donick Cary, Nancy Dubac, Chris Matthews, Kathleen Matthews, Ben Stiller, and Tom Scott.
History
The Nantucket Film Festival ...
, 2002
*
Grammy
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Award Nomination, Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television, Or Other Media, "A Love Before Time" from ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', 2002
*
Hugo Award
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, Best Dramatic Presentation for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', 2001
* Excellence in Achievement Award, California Alumni Association, 2001
* Crystal Apple Award, New York City Mayor's Office, 2001
*
Provincetown International Film Festival The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) is an annual film festival founded in 1999 and held on Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The festival presents American and international narrative features, documentaries and short films f ...
, Filmmaker on the Edge Award, 2001
* Yale Film Studies Award,
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
, 2000
* Achievement Award,
Jerusalem Cinematheque
The Jerusalem Cinematheque is a cinematheque and film archive in Jerusalem. History
The Jerusalem Cinematheque was founded in 1973 by Lia van Leer. It was originally located in Beit Agron in the center of Jerusalem. A new building overlooking the ...
, 2000
* British Film Critics' Circle Awards Nomination, Best Screenwriter, "The Ice Storm," 1999.
* Gladys Borchers Lecturer,
University of Wisconsin
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
, 1998.
* Nuveen Fellow,
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
, 1997
* University Lecturer,
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, 1997
* Cable Ace Award, Best Historical Documentary Special or Series, " Wonderland," (Executive Producer), 1997
* IFP Gotham Award, Producer of the Year, 1996
* Zanuck Award Nominee, Producers Guild of America, 1996
* Nova Award, Producers Guild of America, 1996
* The Philip and Ruth Hettleman Award,
Columbia University School of General Studies
The School of General Studies, Columbia University (GS) is a liberal arts college and one of the undergraduate colleges of Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights, New York City. GS is known primarily ...
, 1996
*
Independent Spirit
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Brian Greenbaum Memorial Award for Producing, 1994
Writing
Books
* ''Taking Woodstock''. New York: Newmarket Press, 2009. Screenplay and Introduction.
* ''Carl Theodor Dryer's Gertrud: The Moving Word''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
* ''Lust, Caution''. New York: Pantheon, 2007. Screenplay (with Wang Hui-Ling) and Introduction.
* ''The Hulk''. New York: Newmarket Press, 2003. Screenplay and Introduction.
* ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Portrait of the Ang Lee Film''. New York: Newmarket Press, 2000. Screenplay (with Wang Hui-Ling) and Notes.
* ''Ride With the Devil''. London: Faber & Faber, 1999. Screenplay, Introduction, and Notes.
* ''The Ice Storm''. New York: Newmarket Press, 1997. Screenplay, Introduction, and Notes.
* ''Two Films By Ang Lee: "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "The Wedding Banquet"''. New York: The Overlook Press, 1994. Introduction and Screenplays (with Ang Lee, Neal Peng, and Wang Hui-Ling).
Filmmaker (magazine)
''Filmmaker'' is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP ( Independent Fi ...
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based ...
'', January 8, 2014.
* "Preface." "Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About The Movies". By
David Picker
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. Charleston: CreateSpace, 2013.
* "See Here Now: Festival Red Carpets and the Cost of Film Culture," in ''Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals'', ed. Jeffrey Ruoff. Scotland, UK: St. Andrews Film Books, 2012.
"Raul Ruiz Remembered by James Schamus" ''
Filmmaker (magazine)
''Filmmaker'' is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP ( Independent Fi ...
'', August 19, 2011.
* "Afterword." ''A Killer Life''. By
Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon (; born November 21, 1962) is an American film producer active in the American independent film sector.
Christine Vachon produced Todd Haynes' first feature, ''Poison'', which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundan ...
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', November 4, 2007.
* "Next Year in Munich: Masculinity, Zionism and Diaspora in Spielberg's Epic," ''Representations'', Fall 2007, no. 100.
"'Brokeback Mountain': An Exchange" ''
The New York Review of Books
''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...
'', April 6, 2006.
"Oy" ''Filmmaker'', March 24, 2006.
''Cinema Journal'', Summer 2004, Volume 43, Number 4.
* "Dreyer's Textual Realism." ''Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema'',
Ivone Margulies
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* Dona Ivone Lara (born 1921), Brazilian singer
* Ivone De Franceschi (born 1974), Italian footballer
* Ivone Gebara (born 1944), Brazilian feminist theologian
* Ivo ...
Filmmaker (magazine)
''Filmmaker'' is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP ( Independent Fi ...
'', Fall, 2002 (reprinted from The Off Hollywood Report, Fall 1990).
* "A Rant." ''The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties'', Jon Lewis, ed., NYU Press, 2002.
* "Fragments Towards an Introduction to Elia Sulieman's Chronicles." ''Filmmaker'', Winter 2002.
* "16 Fragments on Auteur Theory, or Sarris's Revenge." ''Citizen Sarris: American Film Critic'',
Emanuel Levy
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, ed., Scarecrow Press, 2001.
"Talking Pictures" ''Filmmaker'', Winter, 2001.
''The New York Times'', November 5, 2000.
"IFP Rant" ''Filmmaker'', Spring, 2000.
''The Nation'', April 5–12, 1999.
* "20 Fragments on the Art of Screenwriting." ''Scenario'', Summer 1996.
"Long Live Indie Film" ''Filmmaker'', Fall, 1995.
The Guardian
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Amer ...
. November 9, 2007.
"The Professor in the Back Lot" ''The New York Times''. September 17, 2006.
* "A Conversation with Tony Kushner," ''On Writing'' (
Writers Guild of America, East
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The Writers Guild of America, East is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America West. Together the guilds admin ...
The Minnesota Review
''The Minnesota Review'' is a literary magazine covering literary and cultural studies which places a special emphasis on politically engaged criticism, fiction, and poetry. Issues are often "themed," recent issues examining the nature of acade ...