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AVATAR (2009)

VISUAL AIDS
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THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    A reluctant hero. An epic journey. A choice between the life he left behind and the incredible new world he's learned to call home. Return to James Cameron's Avator - the greatest adventure of all time.

STARRING:

Sam Worthington: Jake Sully
Zoe Saldana: Neytiri
Stephen Lang: Colonel Miles Quaritch
Michelle Rodriguez: Trudy Chacon
Sigourney Weaver: Dr. Grace Augustine

SCREENWRITER: James Cameron

DIRECTOR: James Cameron

RUNNING TIME: 162 minutes

STUDIO: 20th Century Fox

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B -

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(9 nominations and 3 wins)

Best Picture
(nominated)

Best Director - James Cameron
(nominated)

Best Art Direction - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
(winner)

Best Cinematography - Mauro Fiore
(winner)

Best Editing - Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
(nominated)

Best Original Score - James Horner
(nominated)

Best Sound - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summes, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson
(nominated)

Best Sound Editing - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
(nominated)

Best Visual Effects - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones
(winner)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES
(2 nominations and 1 win)

Best Picture (Drama)
(nominated)

Best Special Effects Movie
(winner)

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GOLDEN GLOBES
(4 nominations and 2 wins)

Best Picture (Drama)
(winner)

Best Director - James Cameron
(winner)

Best Original Score - James Horner
(nominated)

Best Original Song - (I See You) James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell
(nominated)

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• This movie overtook Titanic as the highest grossing movie in both the U.S. and in the worldwide box-office. The film grossed $749,202,090 domestically and $2,734,202,090 worldwide. Several sites that track this warn that the extraordinary high box-office receipts can be deceiving as these figures do not take into account inflation, or the fact that 3D showings of the film many times doubled the cost of the film. If you look at raw tickets sold, the most successful theatrical release of a movie is still Gone With The Wind.
• This was the first film to be shot entirely with a 3-D camera.
• This film was written in 1999 and Cameron wanted to shoot it then, however with the current limits of technology the special effects would have made the film's budget skyrocket to over 400 million, and no studio agreed to finance the film. Cameron was also concerned that the special effects would not be up to his standards so he shelved the movie.
• James Cameron financed a trip to Hawaii to let the actors and crew feel what it would be like to live in a jungle since the world of Pandora was completely generated by computers. Days were spent hiking, fishing and living like members of a tribe. Nights were spent at The Four Seasons Hotel.
• Linguist Paul Frommer was brought on to create a new language that was distinct from any other language that might be heard on Earth, but that was easy for the actors to pronounce. Frommer created more than 1000 distinct words for the Na'vi language.
• The studio was pushing for Cameron to cast Jake Gyllenhaal or Matt Damon in the lead role, however Cameron insisted on hiring an unknown. After several auditions he selected Sam Worthington, and after filming wrapped he recommended that Worthington be cast in Terminator: Salvation to director McG. McG gave him the job, and due to the extraordinary long post-production of Avatar, Terminator: Salvation was released several months prior and was no longer an unknown actor by the time it was released.
• It took about 47 hours per frame to animate all of the CGI in this film. A frame is roughly about 1/27th of a second long, and the film is about 162 minutes longs which equates to about 262,440 frames or 12,334,680 man-hours of work just on the special effects.

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