James Schamus

Producer
Writer
Director

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. He was the co-founder of the Good Machine production company and of Focus Features. He heads the New York-based production company Symbolic Exchange, and teaches at Columbia University.

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 24 wins & 36 nominations total

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Known for

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

7.9

Producer

2000

Lust, Caution

7.5

Producer

2007

The Ice Storm

7.3

Producer

1997

Brokeback Mountain

7.7

Producer

2005

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Producer

McVeigh
7.1
- executive producer
- 2024
We Grown Now
6.8
- executive producer
- 2023
Somos.
7.1
TV Mini Series
- executive producer
- 2021
The Assistant
6.4
- producer
- 2019
Driveways
7.2
- producer
- 2019
The Tomorrow Man
5.9
- producer
- 2019
Adam
4.3
- producer
- 2019
Furlough
5.5
- executive producer
- 2018
Benji
6.3
- executive producer
- 2018
A Prayer Before Dawn
6.8
- executive producer
- 2017
Casting JonBenet
6.1
- producer
- 2017
Dayveon
6.2
- executive producer
- 2017
Alone in Berlin
6.5
- producer
- 2016
Junction 48
6.6
- executive producer
- 2016
Indignation
6.7
- producer
- 2016

Writer

The King's Daughter
5.2
- screenplay by
- 2022
Somos.
7.1
TV Mini Series
- created by
- written by (creator)
- 2021
Indignation
6.7
- written for the screen by
- 2016
That Film About Money
7.6
Short
- writer
- 2014
Taking Woodstock
6.7
- screenplay
- 2009
Lust, Caution
7.5
- screenplay
- 2007
Hulk
5.6
- screenplay
- story
- 2003
Tortilla Soup
6.7
- earlier screenplay
- 2001
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7.9
- screenplay by
- 2000
Ride with the Devil
6.7
- screenplay
- 1999
The Ice Storm
7.3
- screenplay by
- 1997
Eat Drink Man Woman
7.8
- screenplay
- 1994
The Wedding Banquet
7.6
- written by
- 1993
Pushing Hands
7.2
- Writer
- 1991

Trivia
Winner of NBC Screenwriter's Tribute from Nantucket Film Festival, in Mass., June, 2002

Quotes
I make as many bad movies as a big studio. But when they make a bad movie they spend forty to sixty million telling everyone about it. When I make a bad one, it gets a round of applause at a film festival.