Jon Landau

Jon Landau ˈlændaʊ July 23 1960 July 5 2024 was an American film producer Best known for his collaborations with filmmaker James Cameron he notably coproduced Camerons epic romantic film Titanic 1997for which he won the Academy Award for Best Pictureas well as Camerons Avatar film series 20092029 As of 2025 Titanic Avatar 2009 and Avatar The Way of Water 2022 are three of the four highestgrossing films of all time with Avatar in the top spot not adjusted for inflation Landaus other notable credits include Solaris 2002 and Alita Battle Angel 2019 both of which he produced alongside Cameron as well as Honey I Shrunk the Kids 1989 and Dick Tracy 1990 Following his death from cancer in 2024 Landaus final works will be the final three Avatar sequels for which he will be credited posthumously His memoir The Bigger Picture My Blockbuster Life Lessons Learned Along the Way written after his cancer diagnosis was published in November 2025 featuring a foreword by Cameron Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Landau licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia