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James Cameron
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker and explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing film director of all time. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, Cameron has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards,…
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s novel The Devils and that he would begin working on a screenplay for a film based on the novel after completion of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Avatar: Fire and Ash was released in December 2025. Cameron directed Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a concert film documenting Billie Eilish
2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Out of the blue: James Cameron’s surprise departure would be good for Avatar
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2025· 2 entries
Cameron announced that Lightstorm Entertainment had acquired the rights to Joe Abercrombie's novel The Devils and that he would begin working on a screenplay for a film based on the novel after completion of Avatar: Fire
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“s novel The Devils and that he would begin working on a screenplay for a film based on the novel after completion of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Avatar: Fire and Ash was released in December 2025. Cameron directed Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a concert film documenting Billie Eilish”
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2024· 4 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (2024).
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A new “Titanic Versus Godzilla” movie directed by James Cameron is slated for release in September 2024.” Labeled Satire.
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Deadline Hollywood confirmed that Cameron had purchased the rights of not only The Last Train from Hiroshima, but also of Pellegrino's forthcoming Ghosts of Hiroshima, to make an "uncompromising theatrical epic motion pi
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Cameron joined the board of directors of AI company Stability AI in September 2024.
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Oscar-winning film director James Cameron was exploring the wreckage of Titanic on Sept. 11, 2001.” True.
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2022· 1 entry
And as of 2023 stood as the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time, behind only Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, and just ahead of Titanic
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2021· 1 entry
While giving a MasterClass during a break from his work on the Avatar sequels, Cameron acknowledged his past demanding behaviour, opining that if he could go back in time, he would improve the working relationship with h
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Film director James Cameron said that he chose a cop for the villain of "Terminator 2" in part because "cops think of all non-cops as less than they are."” True.
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2019· 2 entries
To generally positive reviews and $404 million (equivalent to $487,500,000 in 2024) at the worldwide box office
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After being in parallel development with Avatar
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2017· 1 entry
On its 20th anniversary, Titanic became Cameron's second film to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry
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2016· 1 entry
Premier Exhibitions, owner of many RMS Titanic artifacts, filed for bankruptcy
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2015· 2 entries
“He can do every other job [than acting]. I”
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Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis both applauded Cameron in an interview
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2014· 1 entry
And releases in December 2016, 2017, and 2018
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Nierenberg Prize (2013).
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Won Hubbard Medal (2013).
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2012).
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Titanic 3D premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall
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Dived five miles deep to the bottom of the New Britain Trench with the Deepsea Challenger
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Became the first person to complete a solo descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth's ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible
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About his reputation, Cameron dryly responded: "I don't have to shout any more, because the word is out there already"
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2011· 3 entries
Cameron became a National Geographic explorer-in-residence
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Cameron served as an executive producer for Sanctum, a disaster-survival film about a cave diving expedition which turns deadly
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Cameron is an atheist; he formerly associated himself with agnosticism, a stance he said he had come to see as "cowardly atheism." Since 2011, he is vegan.
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2010).
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Cameron was honored with a Visual Effects Society (VES) Lifetime Achievement Award
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Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Indicated he would adapt the Charles R
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2009· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Avatar (2009).
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Was nominated for awards in Best Film Editing (shared with John Refoua and Stephen E
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2008).
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The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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Cameron received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and a year later, received the 2,396th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2007· 1 entry
Cameron and fellow director Simcha Jacobovici, produced The Lost Tomb of Jesus
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2006· 1 entry
Cameron co-created and narrated The Exodus Decoded, a documentary exploring the Biblical account of the Exodus
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2005· 1 entry
Cameron co-directed Aliens of the Deep, a documentary about the various forms of life in the ocean
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Hans Hass Award (2004).
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But withdrew his application after President George W
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2003· 1 entry
Directed Ghosts of the Abyss, a documentary about RMS Titanic which was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, and designed for 3D theaters
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2002· 2 entries
Spider-Man was released, with the screenplay credited solely to Koepp
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Cameron served as producer on the 2002 film Solaris, a science fiction drama directed by Steven Soderbergh
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2000· 1 entry
Cameron made his debut in television and, with Charles H
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1999· 1 entry
That the romance, historical nostalgia and James Horner's music contributed to the film's cultural phenomenon
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1998· 6 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Titanic (1998).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Picture for Titanic (1998).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Titanic (1998).
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And his brother, John, formed Earthship Productions, to stream documentaries about the deep sea, one of Cameron's interests
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Cameron attended a convocation to receive an honorary degree from Ryerson University, Toronto
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Presented by Awards Council member George Lucas
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1997· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
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Del Toro's father Federico was kidnapped in Guadalajara and Cameron gave del Toro more than $1 million (equivalent to $1,790,000 in 2024) in cash to pay a ransom and have his father released
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In 1997, del Toro's father Federico was kidnapped in Guadalajara and Cameron gave del Toro more than $1 million (equivalent to $1,790,000 in 2024) in cash to pay a ransom and have his father released.
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1996· 2 entries
Reconciled their friendship and Horner produced the soundtracks for Titanic and Avatar
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Cameron reunited with the cast of Terminator 2 to film T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, an attraction at Universal Studios Florida, and in other parks around the world
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1995· 4 entries
Cameron took several dives to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to capture footage of the wreck, which would later be used in the film
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And 2009, as well as by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, the first men to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste in 1960
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Cameron stated that he wanted the necessary technology to improve before starting production
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Cameron co-produced Strange Days, a science fiction thriller
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1994· 2 entries
“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago, in our current world. What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach.”
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Cameron and Schwarzenegger reunited for their third collaboration, True Lies, a remake of the 1991 French comedy La Totale
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1993· 2 entries
Cameron met close friend Guillermo del Toro on the production of his 1993 film, Cronos.
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Co-founded Digital Domain, a visual effects production company
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1991· 1 entry
Cameron served as executive producer for Point Break (1991), directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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1990· 1 entry
Cameron co-founded the firm Lightstorm Entertainment with collaborator Lawrence Kasanoff
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1989· 1 entry
The same year he divorced from Hurd; they divorced in 1991
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Aliens (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Cameron was hired to write a sequel to First Blood; it was rewritten by Sylvester Stallone and released as Rambo: First Blood Part II
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1982· 1 entry
Inspired by John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978), as well as a nightmare about an invincible robot hit-man sent from the future to assassinate him, Cameron wrote the script for The Terminator (1984), a sci-fi ac
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1977· 1 entry
Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry
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1974· 1 entry
Studied at Fullerton College (1973–1974).
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1954· 2 entries
In Kapuskasing, Ontario, to Philip Cameron, an electrical engineer, and Shirley (née Lowe), an artist and nurse
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Born 1954-08-16.
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