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Focus Features
TypeSubsidiary
FoundedApril 1998
HeadquartersUniversal City, California, United States
IndustryMotion pictures
OwnerGeneral Electric (80%) and Vivendi (20%)
ParentNBC Universal
DivisionsRogue Pictures
Websitehttp://www.focusfeatures.com

Focus Features (formerly USA Films) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor 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, Universal Focus and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 by combining October Films, Gramercy Pictures, and USA Home Entertainment. Vivendi sold the studio, among other entertainment assets, to GE in 2004 to form NBC Universal.

Focus' most successful release to date (under the Focus Features banner) is Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned $83,043,761 at the North American box office. However, this is not counting the domestic total of Traffic (2000), which earned $124,107,477 under the USA Films banner.[1][2]

Contents

[edit] Partial list of films

[edit] USA Films releases

[edit] 1999

[edit] 2000

  • Traffic - December 27
    • 4 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Supporting Actor'
    • 5 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture'

[edit] 2001

  • Gosford Park - December 26 (LA/NY)
    • 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Screenplay'
    • 7 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'

[edit] Focus Features releases

[edit] 2002

  • The Pianist - December 27 (NY/LA only)
    • 3 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Leading Actor'
    • 7 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'

[edit] 2003

  • Lost In Translation - September 12
    • 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Screenplay'
    • 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'
  • Scarface (20th anniversary reissue) September 19, 2003
  • 21 Grams - November 21
    • 2 Academy Award nominations - 'Best Leading Actress' and 'Best Supporting Actor'

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

  • The Constant Gardener - August 31
    • 1 Academy Award - 'Best Supporting Actress'
    • 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Adapted Screenplay' and 'Best Original Score'
  • Brokeback Mountain - December 9
    • 3 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Adapted Screenplay'
    • 8 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Leading Actor'

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

[edit] 2009

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=allmovies&studio=focus.htm
  2. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=usa.htm

[edit] External links

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