Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning producer who worked with director James Cameron on blockbusters Titanic and two Avatar movies, died of cancer on Friday, as Variety reports. He was 63.
Landau’s producing partnership with Cameron yielded three Oscar nominations and a best picture trophy for 1997’s Titanic. The pair also made three of the top four highest-grossing films of all time. In addition to Titanic, the first film ever to gross more than $1 billion globally and currently ranks at Number Four on the top-grossing film list, 2009’s Avatar ranks at Number One and the 2022 sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, is Number Three. (Avengers: Endgame is Number Two.)
Landau began his film career as a production manager in the 1980s, and moved up the ranks. By age 29, he was named executive vice president of feature film production at 20th Century Fox. He met Cameron while…
