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My Take
What fascinates me about James Cameron isn't the box-office record, it's the restlessness behind it. A guy from small-town Ontario who treats the deep ocean and outer space as the same frontier, and who invents the camera rigs he needs when none exist. The Titanic sweep of Director, Editing and Picture was inevitable, but the Nierenberg Prize for science is the tell: he's an engineer who happens to make movies. I admire that obsession with showing audiences something genuinely unseen. People call him a perfectionist tyrant; I read it as someone who simply refuses to let the technology lag behind his imagination.
Overview
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing film director of all time.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- James Cameron
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェームズ・キャメロン
- Reading
- じぇーむず・きゃめろん
- Born
- August 16, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Horse
- Origin
- Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 187 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film producer / film director / screenwriter / film editor / inventor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Brea Olinda High School
- University
- Fullerton College
Awards & achievements
- 1998 Academy Award for Best Director
- Directors Guild of America Award
- 1998 Academy Award for Best Film Editing
- 1998 Academy Award for Best Picture
- 1997 Golden Globe Award for Best Director
- 2010 California Hall of Fame
- 2013 Nierenberg Prize
- 2004 Hans Hass Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.