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American film producer
Jon Landau (; born July 23, 1960)
[1] is an American
film producer , known for producing
Titanic (1997),
Avatar (2009) and
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), which earned $2.19 billion, $2.9 billion and $2.3 billion respectively. As of 2023
[update] , these are three of the four
highest-grossing films of all time.
Early life
Landau is the son of
Edie , a producer, and
Ely A. Landau , a studio executive and producer.
[2] He attended the
USC School of Cinematic Arts .
[3] Landau is
Jewish .
[4]
[2]
Career
Throughout the early 1990s, Landau was executive vice president of feature film production at
Twentieth Century Fox .
[5]
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 $1 billion in gross revenues. The film reached $1.84 billion, more than double the $914 million of then-record-holder
Jurassic Park (1993). Titanic later went on to gross another $300 million in 2012, pushing the film's worldwide total to $2.18 billion, becoming the second film to ever hit $2 billion, as a result.
[6]
In 2009, Landau and
James Cameron produced the science fiction
blockbuster
Avatar ,
[7] which has since surpassed their earlier collaboration, Titanic , to become the new highest-grossing film of all time, with $2.92 billion. Avatar earned Landau his second Academy Award nomination.
The Hurt Locker .
[8]
Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Award Winner–
Titanic – (1997)
Golden Globe Award Winner–
Titanic – (1998)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Winner –
Titanic – (1998)
Academy Award Winner –
Titanic – (1998)
Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award Winner –
Titanic – (1998)
MTV Movie Award Winner–
Titanic – 1997
People Choice Award Winner –
Titanic – (1999)
Golden Globe Award Winner –
Avatar – (2010)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Nomination –
Avatar – (2010)
Academy Award Nomination –
Avatar – (2010)
Golden Globe Award Nomination –
Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Nomination –
Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)
Academy Award Nomination –
Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)
Filmography
References
External links
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Robert Chartoff and
Irwin Winkler (1976)
Charles H. Joffe (1977)
Michael Cimino ,
Michael Deeley , John Peverall and
Barry Spikings (1978)
Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
David Puttnam (1981)
Richard Attenborough (1982)
James L. Brooks (1983)
Saul Zaentz (1984)
Sydney Pollack (1985)
Arnold Kopelson (1986)
Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Mark Johnson (1988)
Lili Fini Zanuck and
Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
Kevin Costner and
Jim Wilson (1990)
Ron Bozman ,
Edward Saxon and
Kenneth Utt (1991)
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Branko Lustig ,
Gerald R. Molen and
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Wendy Finerman ,
Steve Starkey and
Steve Tisch (1994)
Bruce Davey ,
Mel Gibson and
Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
Saul Zaentz (1996)
James Cameron and
Jon Landau (1997)
Donna Gigliotti ,
Marc Norman ,
David Parfitt ,
Harvey Weinstein and
Edward Zwick (1998)
Bruce Cohen and
Dan Jinks (1999)
David Franzoni ,
Branko Lustig and
Douglas Wick (2000)
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Ron Howard (2001)
Martin Richards (2002)
Peter Jackson ,
Barrie M. Osborne and
Fran Walsh (2003)
Clint Eastwood ,
Tom Rosenberg and
Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Paul Haggis and
Cathy Schulman (2005)
Graham King (2006)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and
Scott Rudin (2007)
Christian Colson (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow ,
Mark Boal ,
Nicolas Chartier and
Greg Shapiro (2009)
Iain Canning ,
Emile Sherman and
Gareth Unwin (2010)
Thomas Langmann (2011)
Ben Affleck ,
George Clooney and
Grant Heslov (2012)
Dede Gardner ,
Anthony Katagas ,
Jeremy Kleiner ,
Steve McQueen and
Brad Pitt (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu ,
John Lesher and
James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Blye Pagon Faust ,
Steve Golin ,
Nicole Rocklin and
Michael Sugar (2015)
Dede Gardner ,
Jeremy Kleiner and
Adele Romanski (2016)
J. Miles Dale and
Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Jim Burke , Brian Currie,
Peter Farrelly ,
Nick Vallelonga and
Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Bong Joon-ho and
Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey,
Frances McDormand ,
Peter Spears and
Chloé Zhao (2020)
Fabrice Gianfermi,
Philippe Rousselet , Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and
Jonathan Wang (2022)
Emma Thomas ,
Charles Roven , and
Christopher Nolan (2023)
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