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James Francis Cameron[1] (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor.[2][3] His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and his return to feature films with Avatar, Cameron spent some years creating documentary films, and also co-developing the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part-scientist and part-artist,[4] Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.[2][3][5]
In total, Cameron’s directorial efforts have grossed approximately US.75 billion in North America and US.91 billion worldwide,[6] making him one of the highest-grossing directors of all time.[7] Cameron’s Titanic and Avatar are currently the top two highest-grossing films of all time.
Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron, an electrical engineer.[8] He grew up in Chippawa, Ontario and attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls, and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971.[9] While studying physics and English at Fullerton College and California State University, Fullerton (see ‘Awards’ section below for honorary doctorate), Cameron used every opportunity to visit the film archive of the University of Southern California. To the surprise of many people, although Cameron had a large educational background in the natural sciences, he chose a philosophy major from Fullerton College in 1973.[4] Cameron says of his time there that he was,
“completely self taught in special effects. I’d go down to the USC library and pull any thesis that graduate students had written about optical printing, or front screen projection, or dye transfers, anything that related to film technology…if they’d let me photocopy it, I would. If not, I’d make notes.”
After dropping out, he worked several jobs such as truck driving and wrote when he had time.[10] After seeing the original Star Wars film in 1977, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry.[11] When Cameron read Syd Field’s book Screenplay, it occurred to him that integrating science and art were possible and he wrote a ten minute science fiction script with two friends, entitled Xenogenesis. They raised money and rented a camera, lenses, the film stocks, studio and shot it in 35 mm. To understand how to operate the camera, they dismantled it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running.
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