James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a major figure in the post-New Hollywood era and often uses novel technologies with a classical filmmaking style. Cameron 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 True Lies (1994), as well as Avatar (2009) and its sequels. He directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited Titanic (1997), winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. He is a recipient of various other industry accolades, and three of his films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Cameron co-founded the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. In addition to filmmaking, he is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. He has produced many documentaries on deep-ocean exploration, including Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005). Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies and helped create the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. In 2012, Cameron became the first person to solo descend the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible. Cameron's films have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director. Three of Cameron's films are among 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. 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 grossing over $2 billion. In 2010, Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cameron is also an environmentalist and runs several sustainability businesses. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Cameron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2031Avatar 5 — Director, Producer, Editor, Story, Screenplay, Characters
• 2029Avatar 4 — Story, Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
• 2026Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) — Self (uncredited), Director, Producer, Editor
• Secrets of the Bees — Executive Producer
• 2025Avatar: Fire and Ash — Screenplay, Director, Story, Characters, Producer, Editor
• Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films — Self - Director, Writer, Producer, Creator, Editor, Executive Producer
• 2025Frankenstein — Thanks
• 2025Predator: Badlands — Thanks
• Secrets of the Penguins — Executive Producer
• 2025There Is Another Way — Executive Producer
• OceanXplorers — Voice, Executive Producer
• Secrets of the Octopus — Self, Executive Producer
• What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Filmmaker, Inventor, Explorer
• Secrets of the Elephants — Executive Producer
• 2023The Spot — Thanks
• 2023Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron — Self, Executive Producer
• True Lies — Executive Producer, Original Film Writer
• 2022Avatar: The Way of Water — Story, Director, Screenplay, Characters, Producer, Editor
• LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - Director, Self - Director, The Abyss / Director, Terminator 2
• Super/Natural — Executive Producer
• Secrets of the Whales — Self, Executive Producer
• 2021The Six — Self, Executive Producer
• 2020Akashinga: The Brave Ones — Executive Producer
• 2019Alita: Battle Angel — Producer, Screenplay
• 2019Terminator: Dark Fate — Producer, Characters, Story
• 2019The Game Changers — Executive Producer
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self - Host, Creator
• 2017Atlantis Rising — Self, Executive Producer
• 2017The Shape of Water — Thanks
• 2016Cirque du Soleil: Toruk - The First Flight — Co-Director, Co-Producer
• 2015Beyond Glory — Executive Producer
• 2015Terminator Genisys — Characters
• 2014Deepsea Challenge 3D — Self, Executive Producer
• Years of Living Dangerously — Executive Producer
• 2013All Is Lost — Thanks
• 2013Gravity — Thanks
• 2012Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away — Producer
• 2012James Cameron & Buzz Aldrin: Explorers - Von der Titanic bis zum Mond
• 2012Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica — Thanks
• 2012Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron — Self, Executive Producer
• 2011Sanctum — Executive Producer, Presenter
• 2010Nunca más asistas a este tipo de fiestas — Thanks
• 2010Solartaxi: Around the World with the Sun
• 2009Avatar — Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
• 2009Terminator Salvation — Characters
• 2009Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series — Characters
• Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series — Characters
• 2008Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert — Thanks
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Characters
• 2007The Lost Tomb Of Jesus — Executive Producer
• 2006The Exodus Decoded — Narrator, Production Director, Executive Producer
• 2005Aliens of the Deep — Self, Director, Producer, Cinematography
• 2005Crash — Production Assistant
• 2005Last Mysteries Of The Titanic — Self, Producer
• The Colbert Report
• Entourage — James Cameron
• 2003Ghosts of the Abyss — Self, Director, Producer
• 2003No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
• 2003Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — Characters
• 2003Volcanoes of the Deep Sea — Executive Producer
• 2002Expedition: Bismarck — Self, Director
• 2002Solaris — Producer
• Dark Angel — Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2000Duets — Karaoke singer (uncredited)
• 1999The Muse — James Cameron
• 1997Titanic — Steerage Dancer (uncredited), Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
• 1997Traveller — Thanks
• 1996Terminator: Battle Across Time — Director
• 1995Apollo 13 — Visual Effects Design Consultant
• 1995Strange Days — Screenplay, Producer, Additional Editing, Story
• 1995Your Studio and You — James Cameron
• 1994True Lies — Helicopter pilot (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1993Cronos — Thanks
• Mad About You — James Cameron
• 1991Point Break — Executive Producer
• 1991Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Director, Producer, Writer, Characters
• 1991The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' — Self, Thanks
• 1990Blue Steel — Thanks
• 1989The Abyss — Director, Writer
• 1988Martini Ranch: Reach — Director, Writer
• 1986Aliens — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1985Rambo: First Blood Part II — Screenplay
• 1984The Terminator — Director, Writer
• 1982Android — Visual Effects Design Consultant
• 1982Piranha II: The Spawning — Director, Screenplay
• 1981Escape from New York — Matte Painter, Visual Effects Art Director
• 1981Galaxy of Terror — Second Unit, Production Design
• 1980Battle Beyond the Stars — Art Direction, Visual Effects
• 1978Xenogenesis — Director, Writer, Production Design
• Fantastic Voyage — Producer
• Ghosts of Hiroshima — Director, Producer, Writer
• Liu ren-Tai tan ni ke hao shang de zhong guo xing cun zhe — Producer
• Painter — Executive Producer
• Secrets of the Bears — Executive Producer
• Secrets of the Deep — Producer
• The Devils — Writer, Director

Appearances as themselves (82)

• 2026Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness — Self
• 2026Disney Worldbuilders — Self
• 2026James Cameron: Exploring Minds — Self
• 2026OceanGate Disaster: Minute by Minute — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Terminator, des machines et des hommes... et une femme — Himself
• 2025Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
• 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
• Visionaries — Self
• 2024Aliens Expanded — Self
• Disney Legends Award Ceremony — Self - Honoree
• 2024Fatal Dive to the Titanic: Truth and Lies — Self
• 2024Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli — Self
• The Titan Sub Disaster: Minute by Minute — Self
• 2023Attack of the Doc! — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Inside Pandora's Box — Self
• 2023Titanic: Stories from the Heart — Self
• 2022Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
• 2022Jamie Lee Curtis: Hollywood Call of Freedom — Self (archive footage)
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• Great Minds — Self
• 2021The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World — Self
• 2020Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy — Self
• 2020Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck — Self
• 2019Save the Titanic: Treasures From the Deep — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self
• 2017T2: Reprogramming The Terminator — Self
• 2017Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron — Self
• 2016Eating You Alive — Self
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• 2014Mission Blue — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Amazon Unknown — Self
• 2012James Cameron: Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth — Self
• 2012Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan — Self
• 2012Reflections on Titanic — Self
• 2012Side by Side — Self
• 2011Brian May's Brief History of 3D — Self
• 2011Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth — Self
• 2011Tipping Point: The End of Oil — Self
• 2010A Message from Pandora — Self
• 2010Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora — Self
• 2010Capturing Avatar — Self
• Mars Rising — Himself
• 2006Explorers: From The Titanic To The Moon — Self
• 2005Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection — Self
• 2005Tony Robinson's Titanic Adventure — Self
• 2005Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us — Self
• 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
• 2004The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' — Self
• MythBusters — Self
• 2003Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens' — Self
• 2002George Lucas: Creating an Empire — Self
• 2002Iron and Beyond — Self - Director
• 2002The Alien Saga — Self (archive footage)
• 20012001: The Making of a Myth — Self
• 2001Alien Evolution — Self
• 2001From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking — Self - Filmmaker
• 2001Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' — Self
• 2000Auto Motives — Self
• Click — Self
• 2000The Making of 'Terminator 2 3D' — Self
• 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
• 1999Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs — Self
• 1998History in the Making: Titanic — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• 1998The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft — himself
• 1998Titanic: Breaking New Ground — Self
• The View — Self
• 1993T2: More Than Meets the Eye — Self
• 1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' — Self
• HBO First Look — Self
• 1992The Making of 'The Terminator': A Retrospective — Self
• 1985The Making of the Terminator — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction — Self
• Jackie Chan: Down to Earth — Self
• Monster Maker — Self