Movies
James Schamus, the former Focus Features chief, is set to make his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel “Indignation.”
Nov. 12, 2014
It really is quite a resume: Head of the prestigious studio Focus Features for 13 years, an Oscar-nominated producer, screenwriter and even songwriter with an longstanding collaboration with director Ang Lee, author of a book on Carl Theodor Dreyer, a PhD from Berkeley and a teaching position at Columbia University.
July 30, 2016
Kelly Reichardt and James Schamus are stalwarts of the independent world, and both debuted excellent films Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.
Jan. 25, 2016
Entertainment & Arts
It’s up to James Schamus to keep up the specialty film label’s momentum.
May 20, 2006
Archives
As chief executive of Universal’s Focus Features, James Schamus knows firsthand what his awards nominees feel because he’s been there himself.
Nov. 22, 2006
Awards
In an overhaul of its Focus Features imprint, Universal Pictures is installing FilmDistrict founder Peter Schlessel as the new head of the specialty movie label.
Oct. 2, 2013
With Focus Features restructuring and shifting its identity toward the mainstream, “Dallas Buyers Club” represents the last Oscar hurrah for the division’s James Schamus-led era that gave us great movies such as “The Pianist,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Lost in Translation” and “Moonrise Kingdom.”
Dec. 18, 2013
Your profile of Taiwanese film director Ang Lee (“Ang Lee Braves New Territory,” by John Clark, Sept. 18) quotes James Schamus, Lee’s producing partner, as saying that he begins every interview by asking Lee, “Ang Lee, you’re a yellow, Asian guy.
Sept. 25, 1999
“Indignation” tells a very particular story, one that’s bittersweet, heartbreaking and bleakly comic all at once, and it gets it right.
July 28, 2016
Come Oscar time, Ang Lee’s martial-arts romance “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” will surely win awards.
Dec. 12, 2000