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James Cameron
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
Sigourney Weaver
Stephen Lang
Michelle Rodriguez
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The story's hero is Jake Sully, an ex-Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he's still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for and he ultimately finds it in the place he least expected- on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person's consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora's indigenous humanoid race, the Na'vi. This human-Na'vi hybrid - a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na'vi but possesses the individual human's thoughts, feelings and personality - is known as an "avatar." In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na'vi with the hope of enlisting their help - or at least their acquiescence -- in mining the ore. A beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life - reluctantly - because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na'vi's unspoiled world. As Jake's relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na'vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.
Director
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James Cameron
Cast
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
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Sigourney Weaver
Stephen Lang
Michelle Rodriguez
Giovanni Ribisi
Brandon Jelkes
Sara Rose Medina
Chris Mala
Laz Alonso
Jon Curry
James Gaylyn
Kyla Warren
Jodie Landau
Sonia Yee
Joel David Moore
Gerry Blair
Lisa Roumain
Dileep Rao
Matt Chamberlain
Wray Wilson
Taylor Kibby
Debra Wilson
April Thomas
Jacob Tomuri
Cullen B Madden
Christopher Nolen
Luke Hawker
Christa Oliver
Tamica Washington-miller
Carvon Futrell
Bravita A Threatt
Lucy Briant
Michael Blain-rozgay
Cch Pounder
Frank Torres
Sean Moran
Peter Mensah
Matt Gerald
Jahnel Curfman
Austin Wilson
Ilram Choi
Sara Wilson
James Pitt
Kevin Dorman
Hanniyah Muhammad
Jason Whyte
Julie Lamm
Micah Moch
Joseph Brady Madden
Woody Schultz
Melvin Leno Clark Iii
Sean Patrick Murphy
Kelson Henderson
David Van Horn
Wes Studi
Julene Renee
Scott Lawrence
Paul Yates
Nathan Meister
Peter Dillon
Kelly Kilgour
Crew
David Abbott
Heather Abels
John Aberdein
Gino Acevedo
Lilia Acevedo
Holly Acton
Ian Adams
Ryan Adams
Taipua Adams
Richard Addison-wood
Dr. Jonathan Adler
Michael Aerni
Jeremy Agamata
Gustav Ahren
Matt Aitken
Christine Albers
Alexis Alexander
Bradley Alexander
Candice Alger
Marco Alicea
Sean Allan
Belinda Allen
Greg Allen
Jacqui Allen
Ruben Allen
Stan Alley
Greg Allison
Jon Allitt
Antonio Almaraz
Shadi Almassizadeh
Laia Alomar
Richie Alonso
Alex Alvarez
Chris Alviani
Colin Alway
Juan Antonio Amblés
Ron Ames
Hank Amos
Katarzyna Ancuta
Dave Anderson
Raine Anderson
Ross Anderson
Matthew Andrews
Malcolm Angell
Stella Angelova
Francois Antoine
Nicholas Antunovic
Jeffrey Apczynski
Greg Aprahamian
Christine Arboit
Ryan Arcus
Anthony Arendt
Georgy Arevshatov
Elisabeth Arko
Joakim Arnesson
Jane Arthorp
Kayne Asher
Peter Ashford
Manasi Ashish
Clare Ashton
Daniel Ashton
Marc Ashton
Mia Askew
Oliver Askew
Myles Asseter
José E Astacio Jr.
Graham Aston
Atanas Atanasov
Kevin Atkinson
John Yehia Atrouni
Aymeric Aute
Yvonne Autridge
Derrick Auyoung
Jarrod Avalos
Alvise Avati
Sergio Ayrosa
Andrew Ayrton
Glen Ayrton
Adam Azmy
Jean Luc Azzis
Karlo Babakhanian
Kat Bachert
Buffy Bailey
Sarah Bailey-harper
Michael Bain
Christopher Scott Baker
Jeffrey Baker
Felix Balbas
Robert Baldwin
Ido Banai
Danielle Baneham
Richard Baneham
Marco Barbati
Michele Barber
Leigh Barbier
Rebecca Barbour
Simone Bargetze
Alex Barker
Wayne Barlowe
Lloyd Lee Barnett
Billy Barnhart
Joshua Barraud
Ned Barraud
Phil Barrenger
Daniel Barrett
Michel Barriere
Leonard Barrit
Jacob Barrow
Teresa Barsali
Bruce Bartley
Daryl Bartley
Yuri Bartoli
David Basalla
Tom Baskaya
Nick Bassett
Seb Bast
Lorenzo Basurto
Addison Bath
Maria K. Battle
Michael Bauer
Peter Baustaedter
Rob Bavin
Jason Beale
Matthew Beale
Paul Beaudry
Olivier Beaulieu
Aaron Beck
Lyse Beck
Lizi Bedford
Kathleen Beeler
Dan Bennett
David Bennett
James Bennett
Mannix Bennett
Grant Bensley
Michael Bentitou
Kristin Berbae
Roger Ames Berger
Niki Bern
Dick Bernstein
Jeremy Berruel
Gabrielle Bertogg
Didier Bertrand
Louise Bertrand
Jamie Beswarick
Jarnail Bhachu
Pravin Bhat
Shweta Bhatnagar
Hannah Bianchini
Eric Bidinger
Erik Bierens
Walt Bigelow
Michael Bigger
Francis Biggs
Jason Billington
Graham Binding
Daniel Birt
Stacy Bissell
Sean Bittinger
Brad Blackbourn
Vaughn R Bladen
Raphaele Blanchard
Thomas Bland
Dan Blank
Sarah Blank
Christopher Blazick
Jeremy Bloch
Aurore De Blois
Jennifer Bloomfield
Rufus Blow
Richard Bluck
Richard Bluck
Richard Bluff
Mike Boden
Tamara Bogdanovic
Bruno Du Bois
Shaun Bolton
Philip Boltt
Eric Bon
Chris Bond
Frank Bonniwell
Alessandro Bonora
David Booth
Nick Booth
Paul Booth
Bob Bornstein
Rene Borst
Nicole Bossier
Chris Boswell
Jacob Botting
Maryse Bouchard
Antoine Bouthors
Katreena Erin Bowell
Charlotte Bowie
Chantelle Bowkett
Ron Bowman
Stephan Bowman
Matt Boyer
Christopher Boyes
Christopher Boyes
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Award Wins
Best Cinematography
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Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects
Award Nominations
Best Original Score
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Winner of six 2009 awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding Models & Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture and Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture by the Visual Effects Society (VES).
Winner of the 2009 award for Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film by the Art Directors Guild (ADG).
Winner of two 2009 Golden Reel Awards including Best Music and Best Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE).
Winner of two 2009 Orange Awards including Best Production Design and Best Special Visual Effects by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Released in United States Winter December 18, 2009
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2010
The film features six computer-generated "actors," also known as "synthespians."
The project was to shoot back to back with Cameron's "Battle Angel," however "Battle Angel" was put on the back-burner due to script changes.
Released in United States Winter December 18, 2009 (4000+ including 2000+ Digital 3D locations)
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2010
Nominated for the 2009 award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of America (DGA).