Avatar, directed by James Cameron

Despite the fact that of the 9 nominations for the prestigious film award, the creation of the popular director took only 3, the sequel "Avatar" - a question solved. When the popular movie Avatar was released, director James Cameron changed a lot, and his career went sky high.

Cameron has for some time been compared with King Midas, who turned everything into gold into anything he touched. Judge for yourself: two of the five films directed by the director - "Titanic" (1997, 11 "Oscars" and "Avatar" (2009) - became the highest gross in the history of world cinema. The first earned $ 1.84 billion at the box office, and the second made a completely crushing cash-almost $ 2.5 billion (and this is only at the end of February). Announcing the desire to withdraw the continuation of the fantastic blockbuster, Cameron challenged ... The "Avatar" plank was raised very high, which means that James will not again belong to himself for several years and his family will have to persistently survive another creative "immersion" of the head of the family. Despite the fact that the creator of the Avatar, director James Cameron - Canadian, his passion for work is typically American. Not every woman can accept this.


Girls from the "sandbox"

Cameron walked five times under the aisle. For the first time, he tied himself up in marriage with Sharon Williams, a waitress from Los Angeles's Bob's Big Boy restaurant in the distant 1978. Then he, a 23-year-old guy, after watching "Star Wars" quit the job of a truck driver and decided to become a director. For six years, Sharon was still trying to win her husband back from the blue screen, but without success. Having removed a good 12-minute science fiction film "Xenogenesis", Cameron settled himself decorator at the famous film studio low-budget films Roger Corman. And a few years later he grew to the director's chair. The first pancake - the continuation of the film "Piranha" (1982) - came out lumpy. The Italians, who produced the picture, allotted too little money for it, and the film crew did not speak English at all. There were many other overlays. However, James managed to turn to himself even the first fiasco. In a state of severe stress, he had a nightmare about how the robot killer was sent from the future to kill him. In the morning, this dream became the basis for the "Terminator". Without thinking twice, Cameron sold the script to Gail Anne Hurd, head of marketing at Corman, for ... 1 dollar. True, taking two promises from the girl: he will take pictures of himself and Gail will become his wife. So all also has left. With a budget of about $ 6.5 million, Terminator (1984) raised about $ 80 million, brought to James Cameron the fame of a talented director and screenwriter, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, starred in the title role, as a superstar.


Since then, Cameron 's career has gone up the hill. He writes the sequel to the thriller "Aliens" (1986) and shoots a sequel ("Oscar" for visual effects). Finally, the "Abyss" (1989) ... The plot of this fantastic thriller 12-year-old James came up with in a biology lesson. Instead of listening to pistils and stamens, he wrote a story about a meeting of divers with the inhabitants of the depths of the ocean. On the set of "Abyss" for the director, the nickname Iron Jim was fixed because of his fanatical dedication and efficiency. The lion's share of filming was underwater. James with his brother, an aerospace engineer with a specialty and a stunt in vocation, not only came up with special cameras for underwater shooting, but also in an effort to make everything as close to reality as possible conceived at a depth of 12 meters. Under the shooting adapted two huge tanks on the unfinished nuclear power plant. The timing of the end of the shooting was three times carried over and dragged on for a year and a half, the team of director James Cameron worked almost without days off. Add to this the irascible nature of the director, who, regardless of sex and age, never hesitates in choosing expressions - it is not necessary, and to wonder how his subordinates feel to the "crazy canada". But there is no thin without good: "Abyss" with four nominations for "Oscar" has strengthened his status as a talented director, screenwriter and producer. But the cash front again came a black streak.


The intrigue of "Oscar"

The third wife of James was a girl from "her own sandbox," directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Service romance, according to Iron Jim, is the optimal form of relationships with women. True, it's only good if the couple works on the same project ... Cameron produced for Catherine a successful thriller "On the crest of the wave" (1989) with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in the lead roles. On the set, James came up with a transformational effect ("morph"), which he then used to create the robot killer T-1000, which is born from a drop of molten metal, during the "Terminator" (1991). James and Catherine lived for two years, and afterwards diverged intelligently. Bigelow, or rather, her latest film about the war in Iraq, "The Lord of the Storm" became a competitor to his "Avatar" (both pictures were nominated for an Oscar in 9 categories).

"The opposition of the former" journalists dubbed the main intrigue of the "Oscar" and this intrigue kept in suspense until the last moment. She won ... Bigelow, taking the statuettes in the main categories "Best Film" and "Best Director".

After Katherine, in 1997, James again, without departing from the "machine", married the star of the "Terminator" Linde Hamilton. Divorce after two years cost Cameron $ 50 million. The fifth and at the moment the last wife of the famous director - Susie Amis - also an actress. She played in the Titanic, Rosa's granddaughter. June 4 this year, James and Susie will celebrate a decade of married life. For Cameron this is a record. And maybe, clever Suzie realized that the creative Canadian has always lacked a quiet family harbor. She gave birth to three charming children: Claire soon 9, and the twins Quinn and Elizabeth Rose - for 3 years. By the way, when Cameron walks with them at Disneyland, a smug smile does not come off his face.