# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-schamus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:55:58.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-schamus"
name: "James Schamus"
slug: "james-schamus"
description: "James Allan Schamus 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."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Schamus_Berlinale_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.6
  momentum:             2.46940440576557
  historical:           13.23172666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770005/"
    handle:    "nm0770005"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيمس شيموس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "جیمز شیمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジェームズ・シェイマス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schamus"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%A4%8F%E6%85%95%E6%96%AF"
    title: "詹姆斯·夏慕斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354081"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1617"
    title: "James Schamus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump