Peter Kujawski

Peter Kujawski is an American film studio executive who is the Chairman of Focus Features.

Biography Kujawski is a native of Philadelphia who graduated from Columbia University in 2000. At Columbia, he studied with Award-winning filmmaker James Schamus, who hired him as his assistant at Good Machine.

After the studio was absorbed into Focus Features, Kujawski worked on Focus’ sales team, where he sold international movie rights of movies such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Lost in Translation.

In 2011, Kujawski joined Universal Pictures, where he served as EVP of Worldwide Acquisitions until 2014. Under his leadership, the studio has been the number one specialty studio in market share. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led a successful push for premium video on demand that made up for the company's losses in box office revenues.