HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project American film director(b. August 16 1954) noted for his action/science fiction films. Cameron is also known for the remarkable results he gets from his [special effect]?s (FX) crews, beginning with The Terminator (whose special effects, while somewhat dated today, were quite advanced on the film's release in 1984). The special effects in Terminator 2: Judgement Day made extensive use of [computer generated imaging]? (CGI) and won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects; Cameron's Titanic made use of both CGI and a variety of sets of different scales, and also won an Academy Award for FX, among other things.