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 Davidson Stuart Cameron in Dacca, Pakistan. A sum of £5000 was left to the College by Sir James Cameron to form a fund, called the Sir James Cameron Medal, the interest to be used to assist in financing the St Andrew’s Day Festival for educational purposes. He died of a heart attack during his chairing of a meeting of the Edinburgh Medical Library on 13 February 1969. The Lancet published his obituary on 22 February. He married Esther Johanne Frederickson-Dover (of an Indian missionary family) in 1929 but they had no children. James Davidson Stuart Cameron Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron, (1900 –