He then served as a production assistant for Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979). Learning as they went, Cameron said he felt like a doctor doing his first surgical procedure. After borrowing money from a consortium of dentists, he learned to direct, write and produce his first short film, Xenogenesis (1978) with a friend. Film career Early work and 1980s Cameron, September 1986Ĭameron's directing career began in 1978. After the excitement of seeing Star Wars in 1977, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry. During this period, he learned about special effects by reading other students' work on " optical printing, or front screen projection, or dye transfers, anything that related to film technology" at the library. He worked odd jobs, including as a truck driver and a high school janitor, drank beer, smoked pot and did a lot of acid, but wrote in his free time. He switched subjects to English, but left the college at the end of 1974. Īfter high school, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a community college in 1973 to study physics. Classmates recalled that he was not a sportsman but instead enjoyed building things that "either went up into the air or into the deep". He attended Sonora High School and then moved to Brea Olinda High School. At age 17, Cameron and his family moved from Chippawa to Brea, California. He attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls. Cameron spent summers on his grandfather's farm in southern Ontario. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. He is the first of five children, with two brothers and two sisters. James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954, in Kapuskasing, Ontario, to Philip Cameron, an electrical engineer, and Shirley ( née Lowe), an artist and nurse. Cameron is also an environmentalist and runs several sustainability businesses. In 2010, Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world. 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. 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. ![]() 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.Ĭameron's films have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time. Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies and helped create the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. In addition to filmmaking, he is a National Geographic sea tourist and has produced many documentaries on the subject, including Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005). A recipient of various other industry accolades, two of his films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.Ĭameron co-founded the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. He wrote and directed Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009) and its sequels, with Titanic earning him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. He 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 the action comedy True Lies (1994). A major figure in the post- New Hollywood era, Cameron is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly making use of novel technologies. James Francis Cameron CC (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.
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