Focus Features

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Image:FocusFeaturesLogo.jpg Focus Features 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.

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.

Partial List of Films

Focus releases include:

• The Muse (1999)
• Black Cat, White Cat (1999)
• Sugar Town (1999)
• Lucie Aubrac (1999)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Being John Malkovich (1999) – Academy Award nominee (including the Academy Award for Best Director)
• 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 Le Grande Prix at the Cannes Film Festival
• Something New (2006)
• Brick (2005)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)
• Guerrilla (2007)

Rogue releases include:

• Seed of Chucky (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Unleashed (2005)
• Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (2006)

Website

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