James Cameron: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born	August 16, 1954 (age 72) • Kapuskasing • Canada
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1998)
Notable Works	“The Abyss” • “Aliens” • “Alita: Battle Angel” • “Avatar: Fire and Ash” • “Avatar: The Way of Water” • “Avatar” • “Deepsea Challenge 3D” • “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” • “The Terminator” • “Titanic” • “True Lies”
Notable Family Members	spouse Kathryn Bigelow

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Director James Cameron wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and blue tie, smiling at the Titanic 3D film premiere.

Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, and director James Cameron on the set of Titanic, with Cameron gesturing while Winslet and DiCaprio stand in costume.

The filming of Titanic

Producer Jon Landau and director James Cameron, both in tuxedos, smile and hold their Oscars for Best Picture for Titanic at the Academy Awards, standing in front of a blue backdrop.

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens holds a large futuristic weapon, standing alert in a dim, biomechanical alien environment.

Deepsea Challenger

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses, walks down a dim hallway holding a gun in a scene from the 1984 film The Terminator.

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Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director and producer

Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.

Elia Kazan

American director and author

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American filmmaker

Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.

Leo McCarey

American director

Guillermo del Toro smiles on the red carpet in a black suit, black shirt, and black tie at the Venice International Film Festival.

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican director

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.

Warren Beatty

American actor, director, and producer

King Kong

Peter Jackson

New Zealand director

Kathryn Bigelow smiling and looking to the side, wearing a black top and silver necklace, in the press room at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

Kathryn Bigelow

American director and screenwriter

Tony Richardson stands indoors, leaning with one arm on a surface, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt, looking directly at the camera in this 1977 black-and-white portrait.

Tony Richardson

British director and producer

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James L. Brooks

American screenwriter, director, and producer

Director Alfonso Cuaron stands beside a film camera, gesturing with his hand, on the set of Children of Men (2006), with another crew member in the background.

Alfonso Cuarón

Mexican director and screenwriter

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.

Francis Ford Coppola

American director and screenwriter

Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.

Mel Brooks

American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.

George Lucas

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.

Ben Affleck

American actor, writer, and director

Publicity still with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman from the motion picture film "Casablanca" (1942); directed by Michael Curtiz. (cinema, movies)

Best Picture Movie Quote Quiz

Stick figure illustrations holding hands with the Canadian flag.

Spot the Canadian Quiz

Illustration of movie theater popcorn bucket, cinema ticket, clapboard, and film reel. (movies, hollywood, pop culture, 3D render)

Hollywood What If Quiz

Robert Altman (1925-2006) Lobby card of actors Donald Sutherland, left, and Elliott Gould in the comedy film M*A*S*H (1970) directed by Robert Altman. MASH movie Korean War

A Movie Lesson

Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema).

Oscar-Worthy Movie Trivia