Cameron received his degree in person at the graduation ceremony in July, 2004. In recognition of his contributions to underwater filming and remote vehicle technology, the University of Southampton awarded Cameron the honorary degree of Doctor of the University. He also won a Golden Globe for best director for the film. Harris), Best Picture (shared with Jon Landau), and Best Director. With Titanic, Cameron received the Academy Awards for Best Editing (shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Under duress, Cameron says he had a nightmare about an invincible robot hit man sent from the future to kill him, giving him the idea for The Terminator, which would later catapult his filming career.Ĭameron received the Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1991 for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.īut, being primarily thought of as a genre filmmaker, he did not receive any major mainstream filmmaking awards prior to Titanic.
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The movie was to be produced on Jamaica, but when Cameron arrived at the studio, he discovered his crew was comprised primarily of Italians who spoke no English and the project was under financed. The interior scenes were filmed in Rome, Italy while the underwater diving sequences were shot at Grand Cayman Island.
However, the director left the project and Cameron was hired by Italian producer Assonitis to take over, giving him his first directorial job.
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He consulted on the design of Android (1981), and acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror (1981).Ĭameron was hired as the special effects director for the sequel of Piranha, entitled Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981. Making fast, low-budget productions enabled Cameron to pick up the pace efficiently and effectively, soon becoming an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981).
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To understand how to operate the camera, they dismantled it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running.ĭisney announced in September 2011 that it would adapt James Cameron's film Avatar into Pandora: The World of Avatar, a themed area at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.Īs Cameron continued educating himself in techniques, he started as a miniature model maker at Roger Corman Studios. They raised money and rented a camera, lenses, the film stocks, studio and shot it in 35 mm. When Cameron read Syd Field's book Screenplay, it occurred to him that integrating science and art was possible and he wrote a ten minute science fiction script with two friends, entitled Xenogenesis.
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If not, I'd make notes."Īfter seeing the film Star Wars in 1977, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry. That way I could sit down and read it, and if they'd let me photocopy it, I would. During this period he taught himself about special effects: "I'd go down to the USC library and pull any thesis that graduate students had written about optical printing, or front screen projection, or dye transfers, anything that related to film technology. After graduating, he worked several jobs such as truck driving and wrote when he had time.
He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester.Īfter dropping out of Sonora High School, he went to further his secondary education at Brea Olinda High School. His family moved to Brea, California in 1971.Ĭameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a 2-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He grew up in Chippawa, Ontario (now part of the city of Niagara Falls) and attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls, Ontario. On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible as the third person in history.Ĭameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron, an electrical engineer. Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. Avatar was released on December 18, 2009.
He returned to feature filmmaking with the science fiction film Avatar, which makes use of the Fusion Camera System technology. After a string of landmark feature films, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. In total, Cameron's directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America and US$6 billion worldwide. He has written and directed films as disparate as Aliens and Titanic. James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter.
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