He attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls.

Cameron spent summers on his grandfather's farm in southern Ontario. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather immigrated 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 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is also the only director to have had three films gross over $2 billion worldwide. Cameron holds the achievement of having directed the first two of the six films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide. Three of Cameron's films are amongst the top four highest-grossing films of all time Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), and Titanic are the highest, third, 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 explorer 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, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability with his use of novel technologies. James Francis Cameron CC (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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