James Cameron's biography

James Cameron is 68 years old film producer born at Kapuskasing. He was born on Monday 16th of August 1954. He is often nicknamed as Iron JimJim. According to year of birth 1954 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 16th of August means he is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.He was married 4 times.

James Cameron's spouse

He is married to Suzy Amis

He is citizen of Canada. He is an adherent of atheism. His primary profession is to be film producer. You can know him also as film director, screenwriter, film editor, inventor, director, philanthropist, engineer, actor, explorer. He is recently known as television producer. He received Academy Award for Best Director Titanic in 1998

James Cameron's family

James Cameron's spouse

Suzy is known as stage actor. His spouse was born on Friday 5th of January 1962 in Oklahoma City.

James Cameron's ex spouses

Linda Hamilton

James Cameron and Linda Hamilton have been together since 1997 for 2 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Wednesday 26th of September 1956 in Salisbury.

Kathryn Bigelow

James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow have been together since 1989 for 2 years. She is known as screenwriter. His ex spouse was born on Tuesday 27th of November 1951 in San Carlos.

Gale Anne Hurd

James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd have been together since 1985 for 4 years. She is known as film producer. His ex spouse was born on Tuesday 25th of October 1955 in Los Angeles.

James Cameron's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Fullerton College, California State University, Fullerton, Brea Olinda High School, Sonora High School.

James Cameron's career

His main focus is to be film producer.

Awards and competitions

James Cameron's Awards

He received award for Academy Award for Best Director for work Titanic in 1998
He received award for Academy Award for Best Film Editing for work Titanic in 1998
He received award for Academy Award for Best Picture for work Titanic in 1998
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Director for work Titanic in 1997
He received award for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for work Rambo: First Blood Part II in 1986
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Director for work Avatar in 2009

James Cameron's Rankings

2007 - Ranked #3 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

James Cameron's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director for work Titanic in 23 March 1998
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director for work Avatar in 7 March 2010
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Film Editing for work Titanic in 23 March 1998
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Film Editing for work Avatar in 7 March 2010
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture for work Titanic in 23 March 1998
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture for work Avatar in 7 March 2010
He was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for work Rambo: First Blood Part II in 1986

What James Cameron has done for a first time

First director to film both a $100 million (Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)) and a $200 million (Titanic (1997)) movie.
First wife Sharon Williams got just $1,200 from Cameron in their divorce settlement.
Was considered to direct a Spider-Man film on two occasions, first on Spider-Man (2002) and then on The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ten years later.
He is the first director to have two unrelated films make over a billion dollars at the box office. The only other director to accomplish such a feat is James Wan who achieved it with Fast & Furious 7 (2015) and Aquaman (2018).
He is the first director ever to have a film make over one billion dollars at the box office.
He met Linda Hamilon when he directed her in Terminator 2. She hated him at first but married him when filming of Titanic wrapped which resulted in their daughter Josephine being born in 1992.

James Cameron's quotes

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
I was petrified at the start of The Terminator (1984). First of all, I was working with a star, at least I thought of him as a star at the time. Arnold came out of it even more a star.
A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
[About dropping several sequences from the finished film of the Terminator]: "We had to cut scenes I was in love with in order to save money."
That was the purest experience, even though it was the cheapest one and the cheesiest looking one. - [about The Terminator (1984)]
I've always enjoyed it when it was John Woo in his Hong Kong days like Hard Boiled (1992), but I think it's overused now. - [on Hong Kong film making styles]
I don't look at scripts. I just write them.
Basically because I had told the story. To make Terminator 3 was to make a 3. - [about his reason to decline Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)]
It just never really gelled and then the September 11th attacks happened and the idea of a domestic comedy adventure film about an anti-terrorism unit just didn't seem all that funny to me anymore. - [about his reason to decline True Lies 2]
Of the three that we're planning, it's a question of the order, one's historical and two are science fiction. None are ocean. - [about his future projects]
[When he was the new hot screenwriter in the mid-1980s] "I haven't paid for lunch in two weeks."
[on Robert Patrick's casting as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)] "I wanted someone who was extremely fast and agile. If the T-800 is a human Panzer tank, then the T-1000 is a Porsche."
On Stanley Kubrick: I remember going with a great sense of anticipation to each new Stanley Kubrick film and thinking, "Can he pull it off and amaze me again?" And he always did. The lesson I learned from Kubrick was, never do the same thing twice.
[on his reputation as a harsh and demanding taskmaster] I push people to get the best out of them. And the same applies to me. If I come home at the end of a day of filming and my hands are not black, I feel that was a day wasted.
I see a very similar pattern, in a sense, between Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009). Not that they are similar films because they are not - totally different subjects - but in both cases, you have people coming back over and over to see the film.
The key to a sequel is to meet audience expectation and yet be surprising.
Guillermo del Toro is one of my best friends and we've never really worked together. I mean, we always feel like we're working together because he gets all involved in my stuff, I get all involved with his stuff, but not in an official capacity.
[on Planet of the Apes (2001)] They turned out, I think, possibly the most egregious film that they could have on that subject because they miscast the director. It's the only Tim Burton film that I don't like.
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
We did The Terminator (1984) for the cost of Arnold's motor home on the second one.
Curiosity - it's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
[what he thought of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)] In one word, great.
[why he will never return to the Terminator franchise] The series has kind of run its course, and frankly, the soup's already been pissed in by other filmmakers.
I do think Hollywood movies get it wrong when they show women in action roles - they basically make them men. Or else they make them into superheroes in shiny black suits, which is just not as interesting.
I don't have a TV. I took it out of the house. I was watching too much TV, so I took it out.
[on veganism] It's not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it. So it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.
[to Arnold Schwarzenegger when they first met] You are the Terminator.
The Terminator is neither good nor evil.
Every time I start a film, I have a fantasy that it will be like a big family, and we'll have a good time, and we'll have all of these wonderful, creative moments together. But that's not what filmmaking is; it's a battle.
[on working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on True Lies 2] We abandoned True Lies 2 after 9/11, because we didn't think a comedy about fundamentalist terrorists was so funny anymore. And then we never picked it up again.
[on Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)] I did think that this new Captain America was an interesting film for its genre, in that it tackled this idea of digital surveillance and the kind of dark side of our hyper-connected society.
[on starting production on Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)] We do performance capture work. You have to think of it more like an animated film, so it's not really shooting per se. [2016]
[Avatar] Some people think of this as an animated film. It's not an animated film because I'm not an animator. I don't want to be an animator. I'm a director. I want to work with actors. A director-centric actor-process.
[the designs on Avatar] It's a very joyful experience for me. What you imagine is always kind of hazy. It's like the memory of a dream. You can't be specific. You can draw it but it's a completely new act of creation.
[Terminator Genisys] The natural follow up to Terminator 2.
[Avatar] A complete leap into the unknown. Like a jump off a cliff and madly fabricating a parachute on the way down. It's a lot of fun to be out on the edge and know that you're doing something nobody's ever done before.
[Avatar] Some of the design choices were about colors affecting us psychologically, which is why the film has such a striking color palette, like the early days of color cinematography where everything had to be bright and vibrant.
Sometimes the more fantastic an idea is the more you have to be very careful about how you design it.
[300] Fantastic film. I loved it.
I will stand in line for any Ridley Scott movie, even a not-so-great one, because he is such an artist, he's such a filmmaker. I always learn from him. And what he does with going back to his own franchise would be fascinating.
You are never too big to pitch your own story. If I have to stand on a table and tap dance, I will do it.
[on shooting films with higher frame rates] The 3D shows you a window into reality; the higher frame rate takes the glass out of the window. In fact, it is just reality. It is really stunning.
[on being sued by Sandy Arcara for $1.5 million for the rights to "The Minds of Billy Milligan", after having already paid $250,000] I don't negotiate with terrorists or extortionists, so I told her to take a flying fuck and I collapsed the project.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
All my movies are love stories.

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