Avatar
(2009)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Production Design (Rick Carter)
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Saturn Award for Best Director (James Cameron)Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Director (James Cameron)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron)
Academy Award for Best Original Score (James Horner)
Academy Award for Best Picture (James Cameron, Jon Landau)
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Academy Award for Best Sound MixingAward details: (details at IMDb)
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Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The movie title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora. Development on Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page scriptment for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, for a planned release in 1999, but according to Cameron, the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the sight.