Jon Landau (film producer) Production at Twentieth Century Fox. He is best known for producing "Titanic" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and became the highest-grossing film of all time, the first ever to reach $2.0 billion in gross revenues. The film reached $2.19 billion, more than double the $1.03 billion of then-record-holder "Jurassic Park" (1993). In 2009, Landau and James Cameron produced the science fiction blockbuster "Avatar", which has since surpassed their earlier collaboration, "Titanic", to become the new (and reigning) highest-grossing film of all time, with $2.79 billion. "Avatar" earned Landau his second Academy Award nomination, losing that year
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