James Schamus

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.

詹姆斯·艾伦·沙姆斯（James Allan Schamus）是美国编剧，Good Machine制作公司的联合创始人，也是电影制作、融资和全球发行公司Focus Features的首席执行官，直到该公司与FilmDistrict合并。他的作品包括编剧或合著《冰风暴》、《吃喝》、《男人、女人》、《卧虎藏龙》和《绿巨人》（均由李安执导），以及制作《断背山》和《独自在柏林》。在Focus，他监督了《Lost in Translation》、《Milk》、《Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind》、《Coraline》、《The Kids Are All Right》的制作和发行。他是哥伦比亚大学艺术学院的专业实践教授，教授电影史和理论。

詹姆斯·艾倫·沙姆斯（James Allan Schamus）是美國編劇，Good Machine 製作公司的聯合創始人，也是電影製作、融資和全球發行公司 Focus Features 的首席執行官，直到該公司與 FilmDistrict 合併。他的作品包括編劇或合著《冰風暴》、《吃喝》、《男人、女人》、《卧虎藏龍》和《綠巨人》（均由李安執導），以及製作《斷背山》和《獨自在柏林》。在 Focus，他監督了《Lost in Translation》、《Milk》、《Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind》、《Coraline》、《The Kids Are All Right》的製作和發行。他是哥倫比亞大學藝術學院的專業實踐教授，教授電影史和理論。