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This article is about the Canadian filmmaker. For other people, see James Cameron (disambiguation).

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Cameron in 2022
Born	James Francis Cameron (1954-08-16) August 16, 1954 (age 70) Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	Fullerton College
Occupations	Film director producer screenwriter editor philanthropist sea explorer
Years active	1978\u2013present
Works	Full list
Spouses	\n \n Sharon Williams \n (m. 1978; div. 1984) \n \n Gale Anne Hurd \n (m. 1985; div. 1989) \n \n Kathryn Bigelow \n (m. 1989; div. 1991) \n \n Linda Hamilton \n (m. 1997; div. 1999) \n \n Suzy Amis (m. 2000) \n
Children	4
Awards	Full list

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a major figure in the post-New Hollywood era and often uses novel technologies with a classical filmmaking style. Cameron first gained recognition for writing and directing The Terminator (1984), and found further success with Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and True Lies (1994), as well as Avatar (2009) and its sequels. He directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited Titanic (1997), winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. He is a recipient of various other industry accolades, and three of his films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.\n

Cameron co-founded the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. In addition to filmmaking, he is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence and has produced many documentaries on deep-ocean exploration, including Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005). Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies and helped create the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. In 2012, Cameron became the first person to do a solo descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible.\n

Cameron's films have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time. Three of Cameron's films are amongst the top four highest-grossing films of all time; Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Titanic (1997) are the highest, third-highest and fourth-highest-grossing films of all time, respectively.^[1] Cameron directed the first film to gross over $1 billion, the first two films to gross over $2 billion, and is the only director to have had three films gross over $2 billion.^[2]^[3] In 2010, Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cameron is also an environmentalist and runs several sustainability businesses.\n

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Year\n	Title\n	Distributor\n
1982\n	Piranha II: The Spawning\n	Saturn International Pictures / Columbia Pictures\n
1984\n	The Terminator\n	Orion Pictures\n
1986\n	Aliens\n	20th Century Fox\n
1989\n	The Abyss\n
1991\n	Terminator 2: Judgment Day\n	TriStar Pictures\n
1994\n	True Lies\n	20th Century Fox / Universal Pictures\n
1997\n	Titanic\n	Paramount Pictures / 20th Century Fox\n
2009\n	Avatar\n	20th Century Fox\n
2022\n	Avatar: The Way of Water\n	20th Century Studios\n
2025\n	Avatar: Fire and Ash\n
2029\n	Avatar 4\n

Year\n	Title\n	Academy Awards\n	BAFTA Awards\n	Golden Globe Awards\n
Nominations\n	Wins\n	Nominations\n	Wins\n	Nominations\n	Wins\n
1986\n	Aliens\n	7\n	2\n	4\n	1\n	1\n	\n
1989\n	The Abyss\n	4\n	1\n	\n	\n	\n	\n
1991\n	Terminator 2: Judgment Day\n	6\n	4\n	3\n	2\n	\n	\n
1994\n	True Lies\n	1\n	\n	1\n	\n	1\n	1\n
1997\n	Titanic\n	14\n	11\n	10\n	\n	8\n	4\n
2009\n	Avatar\n	9\n	3\n	8\n	2\n	4\n	2\n
2022\n	Avatar: The Way of Water\n	4\n	1\n	2\n	1\n	2\n	\n
Total\n	45\n	22\n	28\n	6\n	16\n	7\n

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