John Bruno (special effects) John Bruno (special effects) John Bruno is an American visual effects artist and filmmaker known for his prolific collaborations with director James Cameron on films like "", "True Lies", "Titanic", "Avatar", and "The Abyss", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He has also contributed to other blockbuster films including "Ghostbusters", "Batman Returns", "Cliffhanger", "", and "". He also directed the 1999 science fiction horror film "Virus", starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland. He currently holds five Oscar nominations and two BAFTA Award nominations. All 6 films were in the category of Best Visual Effects
James Cameron (missionary) James Cameron (missionary) James Cameron (1799–1875) was a 19th-century Scottish artisan missionary with a background in carpentry who, over the course of twenty-three years of service in Madagascar with the London Missionary Society (1826–1835; 1861–1875), played a major role in the Christianization and industrialization of that island state, then under the rule of the Merina monarchy. Cameron was baptised in Little Dunkeld in Perthshire, Scotland on 6 January 1800 and was a direct lineal descendant of MacIain Chief of Glencoe. His early years were spent in and around Murthly Castle where he learned carpentry. His father Thomas spent his life