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
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;