Focus Features

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Focus Features (formerly USA Films) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distrubutor for foreign films. Focus also serves as a producer and distributor of low-budget action/horror films through its Rogue Pictures division (similar to the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment's Screen Gems).

Focus was formed from the 2002 divisional merger of USA Films and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 by combining October Films, Gramercy Pictures, and USA Home Entertainment. Its most successful release to date was Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned more than $85,000,000 at the boxoffice [1].

Focus is currently led by James Schamus.

Partial List of Films

Focus releases include:

• The Muse (1999)
• Black Cat, White Cat (1999)
• Sugar Town (1999)
• Lucie Aubrac (1999)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Rosetta (1999) – Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
• Ride With the Devil (1999)
• Agnes Browne (1999)
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) – Winner of 2 Academy Awards
• Rear Window (re-release)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Gosford Park (2001) – Academy Award winner (and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director)
• The Pianist (2002) – Winner of 3 Academy Awards (including the Academy Award for Best Director) (and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture)
• Far from Heaven (2002) – Academy Award nominee
• Swimming Pool (2003)
• Lost in Translation (2003) – Academy Award winner (and nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director)
• 21 Grams (2003) – Academy Award nominee
• Ned Kelly (2003)
• Sylvia (2003)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – Academy Award winner
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) – Academy Award winner
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• My Summer of Love (2005)
• The Constant Gardener (2005) – Academy Award winner (for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005) – Academy Award nominee (for 4 awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) – 3-time Academy Award winner (including the Academy Award for Best Director for Ang Lee) (and nominee for 8 Oscars including the Academy Award for Best Picture)
• Broken Flowers (2005) – Winner of the "Grand Prix" at the Cannes Film Festival
• Something New (2006)
• Brick (2005)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)
• Scoop (2006)
• Hollywoodland (2006, with Miramax Films)
• Guerrilla (2007)

Rogue releases include:

• Seed of Chucky (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Unleashed (2005)
• Cry_Wolf (2005)
• Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)
• American Pie Presents Band Camp (2006, direct-to-video sequel to American Pie)

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