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Birth
Born inj Ontario, Canada from Scottish descendence from his great-great............................father in 1825. -
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Lifetime
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Chilhood
Grew up un Chippawa, Ontario, and moved at 17 years oldd to Brea, California. Study at Fullerton College, 2 years and dropped out when he start falling the semestre in 1974 -
Studies
in 1974 he completed his studies at the University of California married; the Slaughter of the Rosary Chapel, made in which 16 members of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), were shot on the hills of White Stone. -
Inspiration
He quit of his job as a truck driver and began to be a cineast, watching the original Star Wars, released in 25 May/77 -
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Worklife
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1st Marriage
His First Marriage was with Sharon Williams, whith no childs. -
Xenogenesis
After read the Syd Field's book Screenplay, he imagine to combinate sience and art, and it made him a 12 minutes film called "Xenogenesis" With US$20.000, -
Piranha II
He made his debut as the special effects director of Piranha II, the sequel of the Original movie. He was fired of the jogdays later, and putting a italian director, only because many actors doesn't speak english, only italian. He said that this wasn't his first movie. -
Terminator
He decided its time to make his debut. With Terminator, he made his first movie with Hemdale Pictures. It was a complete exit, recording more than US$70 million dollars -
Rambo II
After the succesfull debut of Terminator, James Cameron made and directed the second part of Rambo. Sylvester Stallone took the script and chaned many things and making a new draft of the script, which was very different of the Cameron's version -
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2nd Marriage
His second Marriage was with Gale Anne Hurd, with no childs. -
Aliens
Cameron made the sequel of Alien (1979 film).He didn't have a good relation with the film team, calling him a poor substitute to Riddley Scott.He Put aside the critics of the crew and after that, he was nominee for the Academy Awards and making a good reception of the public, he also put many womas, calling the movie feminist and without precedent -
The Abyss
Taking the idea in a class of biology long time ago, he created a story of workers that discover stranges underwater creatures, with US$ 41 millions, maiing the most expensive movie in this year. He wanna put realism in the movie, with gallons of water and oil.The movie team was resistemt and the movie was well done. -
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3rd Marriage
His third and most famous marriage was with Kathryn Bigelow. They doesnt' have kids. In the 2009, She beats Cameron in the Best Director prize on the Academy awards, and she won for The Hurt Locker. -
Terminator II
Cameron return as the film director of Terminator in 1991. With Schwarzenegger as the principal Character, he broke again the record of the most expensive movie all time with US$102 million, and making success with T2. -
True Lies
The real idea was to release a remake of La Totale!, and the ideas was from the main character, Schwarzenegger. With US$115 million, the movie was movinate for the Academy Award of Best Visual Effect. -
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4th Marriage
His 4th Marriage was with Linda Hamilton. Thy have one daughter called Josephine, born in 1993. They had been dating since 1991 but, they got married until 1997. -
Titanic
Cameron was interested on the famous ship and it take him to made the script. This began with $200 million and it broke again the record of Cameron's budget. This, was the Bets succesfull movie on his worklife and the record will be never broken again, ultil Cameron's Avatar from 2009 -
Academy Awards
The 70th Academy Awards gave Titanic 11 of its prizes. Making the movie one of the best succesfull ever, Cameron consolided his career as a filmmaker. -
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5th Marriage
His 5th and last marriage until now is with Suzy Amys, he met her in the Titanic making film. They have 3 kids, 2 sons and 1 daugther. He has been living in Malibu, CA since them, -
Avatar
He has been doing very good movies but Avatar was his 2nd succesfull movie after Titanic, breaking again the Famous Cameron's Record of budget. The Movie was nominee for many Academy Awards, but he did not win anyone. -
Academy Awards
The Hurt Locker and Avatar were the most nominees for winning prizes. Nine nominations each one, But the first one winning 6 and the second one 3. Avatar made good reception in all the world, but The prizes wasn't given by them.
