Jon Landau (/ˈlændaʊ/; July 23, 1960 – July 5, 2024) was an American film producer, who won an Academy Award for Best Picture for producing James Cameron's epic romantic disaster film Titanic (1997).
[4][2] Throughout the early 1990s, Landau was executive vice president of feature film production at Twentieth Century Fox.
The film reached $1.84 billion, more than double the $914 million of then-record-holder Jurassic Park (1993).
[7] In 2009, Landau and James Cameron produced the science fiction blockbuster Avatar,[8] which has since surpassed their earlier collaboration, Titanic, to become the new highest-grossing film of all time, with $2.92 billion.
Shortly after his death in July 2024, James Cameron stated that it was Landau who was in fact "the heart of the Avatar family” and "the center of gravity of our bubble universe.