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Jon Landau has been director James Cameron’s hands-on producer ever since he was hired to produce “Titanic” (1997), for which they won the Best Picture Academy Award. He currently holds the COO title at Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. His parents Ely and Edie Landau produced independent films (“Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Man in the Glass Booth”). He followed into their profession, his first full producing job coming on 1987’s “Campus Man.” The visual effects experience he gathered on Disney’s “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” in 1989 led to work as a co-producer on Disney's and Warren Beatty’s adaptation of “Dick Tracy.” From there, he took an executive position as head of physical production at Fox, where he worked on films including “The Last of the Mohicans” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Aliens 3” and “True Lies.” He followed his studio stint with “Titanic” and joined Cameron at Lightstorm, where he served as a producer on Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi remake “Solaris” before embarking on the multi-year development journey for “Avatar.”