Jon Landau (film producer)

Jon Landau
Landau in 2022
Born	(1960-07-23) July 23, 1960 (age 63)^[1] New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	University of Southern California
Occupation	Producer
Years active	1987–present
Parents	Ely Landau (father) Edie Landau (mother)
Awards	Academy Award for Best Picture Titanic (1997)

Jon Landau (/ˈlændaʊ/; born July 23, 1960)^[1] is an American film producer, known for producing Titanic (1997), a film which won him an Oscar and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, as well as Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), which earned $2.9 billion and $2.3 billion respectively. As of 2023^[update], these are three of the four highest-grossing films of all time.

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Early life

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

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. The Hurt Locker.^[8]

Awards

Florida Film Critics Circle Award Winner– Titanic – (1997)
Golden Globe Award Winner– Titanic – (1998)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Winner – Titanic – (1998)
Academy Award Winner – Titanic – (1998)
Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award Winner – Titanic – (1998)
MTV Movie Award Winner– Titanic – 1997
People Choice Award Winner – Titanic – (1999)
Golden Globe Award Winner – Avatar – (2010)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Nomination – Avatar – (2010)
Academy Award Nomination – Avatar – (2010)
Golden Globe Award Nomination – Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)
Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Nomination – Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)
Academy Award Nomination – Avatar: The Way of Water – (2023)

Filmography

Producer

Campus Man (1987)
Titanic (1997)
Solaris (2002)
Avatar (2009)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Avatar 3 (2025)

Co-producer

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Dick Tracy (1990)

References

^ ^a ^b "Jon Landau". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b Pat Sierchio (March 1, 2010). "Producer Landau: Interpreter of Dreams". JewishJournal.com. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
^ Appelo, Tim (20 September 2017). "Top 50 Film Schools of 2017 Ranked, From USC to Full Sail". TheWrap.
^ Postal, Bernard; Silver, Jesse; Silver, Roy (1965). "Harry Rudolph". Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports. New York: Bloch Publishing Co.
^ "Jon Landau has been named senior vice..." Los Angeles Times. 14 February 1990. Archived from the original on January 18, 2024.
^ "Titanic becomes second ever film to take $2 billion". The Telegraph. 16 April 2012. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012.
^ "James Cameron & Jon Landau Land In New Zealand Ahead Of 'Avatar' Production Restart". Deadline. 1 June 2020.
^ "Oscar snubs "Avatar's" motion-capture actors". Reuters. 3 February 2010.

External links

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Jon Landau at IMDb

Awards for Jon Landau

Academy Award for Best Picture

1920s
Wings – Film Studio: Famous Players–Lasky (1927–1928) The Broadway Melody – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1928–1929)

1930s

All Quiet on the Western Front – Film Studio: Universal (1929–1930)
Cimarron – Film Studio: RKO (1930–1931)
Grand Hotel – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1931–1932)
Cavalcade – Film Studio: Fox (1932–1933)
It Happened One Night – Film Studio: Columbia (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1937)
You Can't Take It with You – Film Studio: Columbia (1938)
Gone with the Wind – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1939)

1940s

Rebecca – Film Studio: Selznick International Pictures (1940)
How Green Was My Valley – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1941)
Mrs. Miniver – Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
Casablanca – Film Studio: Warner Bros. (1943)
Going My Way – Film Studio: Paramount (1944)
The Lost Weekend – Film Studio: Paramount (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives – Film Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Productions (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1947)
Hamlet – Film Studio: J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films (1948)
All the King's Men – Film Studio: Columbia (1949)

1950s

All About Eve – Film Studio: 20th Century Fox (1950)
An American in Paris – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth – Producer(s): Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
From Here to Eternity – Producer(s): Buddy Adler (1953)
On the Waterfront – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1954)
Marty – Producer(s): Harold Hecht (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days – Producer(s): Michael Todd (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1957)
Gigi – Producer(s): Arthur Freed (1958)
Ben-Hur – Producer(s): Sam Zimbalist (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Producer(s): Billy Wilder (1960)
West Side Story – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – Producer(s): Sam Spiegel (1962)
Tom Jones – Producer(s): Tony Richardson (1963)
My Fair Lady – Producer(s): Jack L. Warner (1964)
The Sound of Music – Producer(s): Robert Wise (1965)
A Man for All Seasons – Producer(s): Fred Zinnemann (1966)
In the Heat of the Night – Producer(s): Walter Mirisch (1967)
Oliver! – Producer(s): John Woolf (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – Producer(s): Jerome Hellman (1969)

1970s

Patton – Producer(s): Frank McCarthy (1970)
The French Connection – Producer(s): Philip D'Antoni (1971)
The Godfather – Producer(s): Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
The Sting – Producer(s): Tony Bill, Julia Phillips, and Michael Phillips (1973)
The Godfather Part II – Producer(s): Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, and Fred Roos (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Producer(s): Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
Rocky – Producer(s): Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
Annie Hall – Producer(s): Charles H. Joffe (1977)
The Deer Hunter – Producer(s): Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, and Barry Spikings (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer – Producer(s): Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People – Producer(s): Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
Chariots of Fire – Producer(s): David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Producer(s): Richard Attenborough (1982)
Terms of Endearment – Producer(s): James L. Brooks (1983)
Amadeus – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1984)
Out of Africa – Producer(s): Sydney Pollack (1985)
Platoon – Producer(s): Arnold Kopelson (1986)
The Last Emperor – Producer(s): Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Rain Man – Producer(s): Mark Johnson (1988)
Driving Miss Daisy – Producer(s): Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)

1990s

Dances with Wolves – Producer(s): Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs – Producer(s): Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, and Kenneth Utt (1991)
Unforgiven – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood (1992)
Schindler's List – Producer(s): Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Producer(s): Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch (1994)
Braveheart – Producer(s): Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
The English Patient – Producer(s): Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – Producer(s): James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Producer(s): Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Producer(s): Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – Producer(s): David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Producer(s): Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
Chicago – Producer(s): Martin Richards (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Producer(s): Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
Million Dollar Baby – Producer(s): Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg, and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Crash – Producer(s): Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
The Departed – Producer(s): Graham King (2006)
No Country for Old Men – Producer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Producer(s): Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Producer(s): Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Producer(s): Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Producer(s): Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Producer(s): Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Producer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Spotlight – Producer(s): Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar (2015)
Moonlight – Producer(s): Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski (2016)
The Shape of Water – Producer(s): J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Green Book – Producer(s): Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Parasite – Producer(s): Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Producer(s): Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) CODA – Producer(s): Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, and Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Everything Everywhere All at Once – Producer(s): Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang (2022)

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama