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Bom in Kapuskasing, Ontario, James Cameron grew up near Niagara Falls and, in 1971, moved to Brea, California, where he studied physics at Fullerton College while working as a machinist and, later, a truck driver.

Self-taught in filmmaking and visual effect,, Cameron went to work for low-budget producer Roger Comm on Battle Beyond the Stars in 1980. In 1984, he directed The Terminator from his own screenplay. Cameron has since written and directed Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, and Titanic. Titanic won 11 Academy Awards, including Cameron's 0scacs for Best Director, Best Editing and Best Picture, and has grossed $1.8 billion at the box office, more than any other film. Cameron then cocreated and produced 44 episodes of Dark Angel, which gained a loyal following and a number of prestigious nominations and awards.

In 1995, Cameron made 12 dives to the Titanic wreck to gather shots for his feature film. In recent years, his desire to bring profound experience of deep-ocean exploration to audiences around the world motivated Cameron to turn to documentary filmmaking and the development of a 3-D Reality Camera System, which he codeveloped with PaceTechnologies and Sony. Cameron worked with his brother Mike to design and build underwater housings that enable the cameras to be taken to depths of up to 20,000 feet and two ROVs with the capability to explore anywhere inside deep shipwrecks. The expedition was the subject of Cameron's 3-D IMAX movie, Ghosts of the Abyss. In May of 2002, Cameron guided his robotic cameras inside the wreck of the battleship Bismarck which resulted in groundbreaking discoveries about the sinking of the legendary German battleship and the Discovery Channel documentary, James Cameron's Expedition: Bismarck. Cameron has made a total of 49 dives in the MIR submersibles and currently co-owns the two Deep Rover submersibles. For Aliens of the Deep, he codirected topside scenes and directed underwater scenes, as well as operated the deep-ocean camera system. His Earthship Productions documentary company is planning future ocean expeditions to be interspersed with feature films which he will produce

and direct under his Lightstorm Entertainment banner. He serves on the NASA Advisory Council and is involved in space policy and exploration, as well as ocean exploration and conservation.

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