James Cameron 2010). Cameron did not receive any major mainstream filmmaking awards prior to "Titanic". For "Titanic", he won several, including Academy Awards for Best Picture (shared with Jon Landau), Best Director and Best Film Editing (shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris). Cameron is one of the few filmmakers to win three Oscars in a single evening and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director. In recognition of "a distinguished career as a Canadian filmmaker", Carleton University, Ottawa, awarded Cameron the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts on June 13, 1998. Cameron accepted the degree
James Cameron a country he fell in love with when he was filming "Avatar". In 2016, Cameron partnered with Tourism New Zealand to produce a series of videos that expressed his love for the country. Cameron calls himself "Converted Agnostic", and says "I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism". As a child he described the Lord's Prayer as being a "tribal chant". He has been a close friend of fellow filmmaker Guillermo del Toro since they met during the production of Del Toro's 1993 film "Cronos". Around 1997, Del Toro's father, Federico del Toro Torres, was kidnapped in Guadalajara;