List of awards and nominations received by James Cameron
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James Cameron is a Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and editor who has received numerous accolades throughout his career.
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| Wins | 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 119 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cameron first gained recognition for writing and directing science fiction films including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),[1] for which he won various awards that honor sci-fi projects, such as the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards, and the Saturn Awards. In 2026, he won his seventh Saturn Award for Best Director, holding the record for being the most awarded individual in this category.[2][3][4]
In 1997, he wrote, directed, edited and produced the epic romance film Titanic, one of the most expensive films ever made. Released to critical acclaim and commercial success, it became the first picture to gross $1 billion at the box office.[5] It received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 1998 Academy Awards and became the second film in history to win eleven Oscars,[6] with Cameron winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing. For Titanic, he also won a Directors Guild of America Award, two Golden Globes, a Producers Guild of America Award and received three nominations at the 1998 British Academy Film Awards.
In 2009, Avatar, Cameron's first feature film in twelve years, was released. It broke several box office records and on January 25, 2010, became the highest-grossing film in history.[7] At the 2010 Academy Awards, Avatar received nine nominations, with Cameron being the recipient of three of them. He won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, and Best Editing at the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards. He received a seventh Academy Award nomination for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), the second of the five planned films of the Avatar franchise.[8]
Cameron has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in 2014 for producing the Showtime documentary television series Years of Living Dangerously, and in 2021 for producing the Disney+ nature documentary series Secrets of the Whales.
Major associations
Academy Awards
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Titanic | Best Picture[a] | Won | [9] |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| Best Film Editing[b] | Won | |||
| 2010 | Avatar | Best Picture[a] | Nominated | [10] |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Film Editing[c] | Nominated | |||
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Best Picture[a] | Nominated | [11] |
British Academy Film Awards
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Titanic | Best Film[a] | Nominated | [12] |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Editing[b] | Nominated | |||
| 2009 | Avatar | Best Film[a] | Nominated | [13] |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Editing[c] | Nominated |
Critics' Choice Awards
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Titanic | Best Director | Won | [14] |
| 2009 | Avatar | Best Director | Nominated | [15] |
| Best Editing[c] | Won | |||
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Best Director | Nominated | [16] |
| Best Editing[d] | Nominated |
Emmy Awards
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2003 | Expedition: Bismarck | Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming[e] | Nominated | [17] |
| 2014 | Years of Living Dangerously | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series[f] | Won[g] | |
| 2021 | Secrets of the Whales | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series[h] | Won | |
| 2024 | Secrets of the Elephants | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series[i] | Nominated | |
| News and Documentary Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2023 | Super/Natural | Outstanding Nature Documentary[j] | Nominated | [18] |
Golden Globes
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Titanic | Best Motion Picture – Drama[a] | Won | [19] |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 2010 | Avatar | Best Motion Picture – Drama[a] | Won | [20] |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Best Motion Picture – Drama[a] | Nominated | [21] |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| 2026 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement[k][a] | Nominated | [23] |
Awards and nominations
Notes
- shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris
- shared with Stephen E. Rivkin and John Refoua
- shared with David Brenner, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin
- shared with Gary Johnstone
- shared with Daniel Abbasi, Joel Bach, Adam Bolt, David Gelber, Solly Granatstein, Jacob Kornbluth, Jennifer Latham, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Weintraub
- tied with American Masters
- shared with Pamela Caragol, Kevin Krug, Sam LeGrys, Shannon Malone-deBenedictis, Brian Skerry and Maria Wilhelm
- shared with Lucinda Axelsson, Kim Butts, Pamela Caragol, Jonathan Frisby, Caroline Hawkins, Dr. Paula Kahumbu and Maria Wilhelm
- shared with the production team of Super/Natural
- The award for Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement is given to the individual producers accredited by the Producers Guild of America for the film.[22]
- Indicates the year of ceremony.
- shared with William Wisher Jr.
- shared with Kevin Jarre and Sylvester Stallone
- shared with David Giler and Walter Hill
- shared with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
- shared with Daniel Abbasi, Joel Bach, David Gelber, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Weintraub
- shared with David Brenner, John Refoua, Stephen Rivkin and Ian Silverstein
- shared with Conrad Buff
- shared with Gale Anne Hurd
- shared with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno
- shared with Nicolas De Toth, Jason Gaudio, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin
- tied with Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois for How to Train Your Dragon