Filmography
For a more in depth look at James Cameron’s movies go to www.imdb.com
Battle Angel
ETA: 2011, Digital 3D
Director, screenplay, producer
Set in the 26th Century, a technological dark age, the story is an adaptation of a well known series of graphic novels by Yukito Kishiro.
Alita is a half cyborg, half human with no memory. She is rescued from a scrap heap and reconstructed by her surrogate father before struggling to recover lost memories.
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“Every year, our business makes hundreds of films, most of which come and go. But a Jim Cameron film
is different”
Tom Rothman
Other Cameron works:
TV Documentary
Cameron was producer of:
Titanic Adventure (UK)
Last Mysteries of the Titanic
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Cameron also directed the
2001 TV show Earthship TV.
Misc movie work:
Spy Kids 3D - special thanks
Frailty - special thanks
Requiem - special thanks
Virus - special thanks
Apollo 13 - effects adviser
Android - design consultant
Escape from New York -
Effects director of photography
Galaxy of Terror - unit director
Beyond the Battle of the Stars -
additional photographer and miniature designer
Rock n Roll High School -
uncredited assistant.
Cameron can also be seen acting in Entourage and Titanic, he plays a steerage dancer.
Xenogenisis
Released: 1978, 35mm
Co-Director, Writer, Producer
Two humans get caught up in a battle with a giant robot. One gets cornered, the other finds another robot and proceeds to fight the first. Dated but easy to see it’s Cameron’s film, with touches of Terminator and Aliens.
(Co-Directed and written by Randall Frakes)
Student short film
Piranha Part Two:
The Spawning
Released: 1981, 35mm
Director, Writer (under H.A. Milton)
A Caribbean Island resort has to face a mutant strain of flying piranha fish that seems to be killing off residents. Cameron took over directing after another quit during production.
(Stars Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn)
Terminator
Released: 1984, 35mm
Director, Writer
An unstoppable cyborg from the future is sent back in time to kill the unborn son of Sarah Connor. Her only hope is a human also sent back through time to protect her, the fate of the world depends on her sons future.
(Stars Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn)
World wide box office $38.3 million
Rambo: First Blood part 2
Released: 1985, 35mm
Screenplay (early drafts)
John Rambo returns to Vietnam to rescue American prisoners of war. He falls in love with a local girl who is murdered by a sadistic Vietnamese Captain and prompts Rambo into revenge filled killing spree.
(Stars Sylvester Stallone)
World wide box office $300 million
Aliens
Released: 1986, 35mm
Director, Writer
Sequel to Ridley Scott’s master piece Alien. Ripley returns to LV426 with a team of USC Marines and proceeds to kick serious ass for the remaining two hours. Awesome! Movie debut for DP Adrian Biddle’s great cinematography.
(Stars Sigourney Weaver & Al Matthews)
World wide box office $131 million
The Abyss
Released: 1989, 35mm
Director, Writer
A civilian underwater oil rig team are enlisted
to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. Best off watching the awesome
Special Edition version.
(Stars Ed Harris & Michael Biehn)
World wide box office $90 million
Terminator 2
Released: 1991, 35mm
Director, Producer, Writer
A shape shifting liquid metal cyborg is sent back through time to kill a teenage John Connor.
Another Terminator is also sent back in time
to defend the boy and ensure a hopeful future beyond 1997.
(Stars Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick)
World wide box office $517 million
Point Break
Released: 1991, 35mm
Executive producer, Writer
Un-credited rewrite by Cameron helped make this one of the best action flicks of the 90’s. An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of surfing bank robbers and gets drawn into the adrenaline fuelled lifestyle they lead.
(Directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
World wide box office $83.5 million
True Lies
Released: 1994, 35mm
Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
Harry Tasker is a secret agent, so secret in fact that his wife doesn’t know. He has to stop a nuclear attack on American soil whilst struggling to keep his marriage together, his partner
under control and his daughter safe.
(Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger)
World wide box office $379 million
Strange Days
Released: 1995, 35mm
Producer, Writer, Editor
Jim’s second collaboration with Kathryn Bigelow explores a dark sci-fi world of pre-recorded life experiences. A street hustler uncovers a conspiracy in 1999 Los Angeles.
(Directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
Stars Ralph Fiennes & Angela Bassett
World wide box office $8 million
Terminator 2 3D
Released: 1996, Universal Studios Ride
Co-Director, Writer
The original cast returned for this one off 3D movie that interacts with live stage actors to create the future world of 2029 and the awesome Skynet Terminator, the T1Million.
Way better than T3.
(Co-Directed with Stan Winston & John Bruno)
Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida
Titanic
Released: 1997, 35mm
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
The epic love story of a rich girl and a poor boy who’s paths cross during the ill-fated maiden voyage of the unsinkable ship. Still the world’s most successful film.
(Stars Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet)
Won 87 Awards including 11 Oscars
World wide box office $1.8 billion, yes billion.
Dark Angel
Released: 2000, TV
Ex-Producer, Director & Writer (3 episodes)
Cameron wrote the pilot episode as well as a latter story entitled Freak Nation.
Genetically enhanced child Jessica Alba tries her best to avoid government official in a post-apocalyptic America.
(Co-Directed with Charles H. Eglee)
43 Episodes were produced.
Solaris
Released: 2002, 35mm
Producer
A very under-rated, stylish and tense sci-fi master piece based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem. Psychological drama aboard isolated research centre orbiting a strange planet.
(Directed by Steven Soderbergh)
Stars George Clooney and Natascha McElhone
World wide box office $30 million
Expedition Bismarck
Released: 2002, TV
Co-Director, Producer
An underwater documentary about the historic German battleship The Bismarck with a reconstruction of the events leading up to the her sinking. Emmy Award for best sound.
(Co-Directed by Gary Johnstone)
Lance Henriksen narrates.
TV release.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Released: 2003, IMAX 3D
Director, Producer
Cameron’s first venture into large format 3D with some spectacular footage of the Titanic wreck and amazing advancements in cinema and exploration technology. Cameron and Paxton guide us through the wreck with CG recreations.
Stars Bill Paxton
World wide box office (IMAX only) $22.1 million
Aliens of the Deep
Released: 2005, IMAX 3D
Co-Director, Cinematographer, Producer,
The second of Cameron’s IMAX 3D documentaries focusing on hydrothermal vents on the ocean bed, and how knowledge gained from deep sea exploration can be used to help further advancements in space exploration.
(Co-Directed with Steven Quale)
World wide box office (IMAX only) $12.5 million
The Exodus Decoded
Released: 2006, TV
Executive Producer and narrator
A documentary created by Jewish Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, in which new evidence in favour of the historicity of the Biblical Exodus is explored. Informative and entertaining with some nice recreeations.
(Directed by Simcha Jacobovici)
Discovery Channel
Avatar
ETA: 2009, Digital 3D
Director, writer, producer
Part live action, part CGI, all in epic proportions. 200 years in the future, marines, scientists, flying creatures, interplanetary war and all in glorious three dimensional digital cinema. His most eagerly anticipated film since his last and a movie that is sure to really change cinema. Green-lit with a budget of $200 million.
