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James Cameron To Receive ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker Of The Year Hono
Filmmaker James Cameron, whose 1997 film ""Titanic"" is the winner of 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and is on the record books as the biggest boxoffice motion picture of all time, has been selected by the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) to be honored with the organization's coveted ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award during the 50th Annual Eddie Awards ceremonies on Sunday, February 27, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The announcement was made Thursday by ACE President Mark Goldblatt. Cameron also won a shared ACE editing award for ""Titanic"" during the group's 48th Annual ACE Awards. Cameron wrote and directed ""The Terminator"" (1984); directed ""Aliens"" (1986); co-wrote ""Rambo II"" (1988); wrote and directed ""The Abyss"" (1989); co-wrote and executive produced ""Point Break"" (1991); wrote, produced and directed ""Terminator 2: Judgement Day"" (1991); and wrote, produced and directed ""True Lies"" (1994). The special ACE award, in recognition of individuals in the film industry who have made significant contributions to the advancement of motion pictures, has previously been presented to Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Roger Corman, Robert Altman, John Frankenheimer, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Saul Zaentz and Stanley Donen. In addition to the Oscars he won for his work on ""Titanic,"" Cameron has won nominations and awards for the same film from the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the People's Choice Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the American Cinema Editors and numerous others. The National Association of Theatre Owners has separately recognized Cameron as Director of the Year and Producer of the Year. Since ""Titanic,"" Cameron has begun exploring several new entertainment avenues. In 1998, he formed a television development and production venture with Charles Eglee, and together they are readying ""Dark Angel"" as their maiden effort, a one-hour dramatic series for 20th Century Fox Television and the Fox Broadcasting Company. Cameron has also immersed himself in the study of man's next potential great step in the exploration of space: Mars. Through his own research, and working closely with experts at NASA and throughout the private sector, Cameron has developed a wholly feasible near-term mission architecture that could put man on the red planet within the next 15 years. These central plans provide the spine of two related entertainment projects that Cameron is currently writing and producing: a five-hour miniseries and a 3-D IMAX film (the latter of which Cameron will co-direct), both focusing on the first manned mission to Mars. In addition, Cameron has numerous feature film projects in various stages of development, although he has yet to announce what his next major feature directorial effort will be. Cameron will receive his ACE honor at the black-tie Eddie Awards ceremony that will also announce winners in seven categories of film, television and documentary, as well as two additional ACE special Career Achievement Awards.