Jon Landau (film producer)
Jon Landau (/ˈlændaʊ/; 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, these are three of the four highest-grossing films of all time.
Jon Landau
July 23, 1960[1]
Film producer
1987–present
- Ely Landau (father)
- Edie Landau (mother)
Early life[edit]
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[edit]
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.