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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
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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
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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.
Awards
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- 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
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References
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Jon Landau
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1951?1975
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1976?2000
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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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2001?present
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- Brian Grazer
and
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. Inarritu
,
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
Chloe 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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