Avatar

Cameron, James, 1954- (screenwriter,, director,, editor of moving image work,, producer.). Landau, Jon, 1960- (producer.). Fiore, Mauro, (director of photography.). Worthington, Sam, 1976- (actor.). Saldana, Zoe, (actor.). Lang, Stephen, 1952- (actor.). Rodriguez, Michelle, (actor.). Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- (actor.). Ribisi, Giovanni, 1974- (actor.). Horner, James, (composer (expression)). Weta Digital (Firm), (animator.). Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, (production company.). Criterion-on-Demand (Firm), (distributor.). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi. (Cast).

Summary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair, but despite his broken body, he is still a warrior at heart. Recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis, he is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But everything changes when a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves his life.

Record details

Physical Description: remote
1 streaming video file (150 min.) : digital, sound, color
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 2009.
Distributor: Vaughan, ON : Criterion-on-Demand, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally released as a motion picture by 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 2009.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to subscribers.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Mauro Fiore ; visual effects & animation, Weta Digital ; editors, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron ; music, James Horner ; production designers, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg.
Participant or Performer Note:	Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.
System Details Note:	Content available as downloadable file or streaming video.
Awards Note:	Oscar winner for Best Achievement in Art Direction : Rick Carter (art director), Robert Stromberg (art director), and Kim Sinclair (set decorator) ; Best Achievement in Cinematography, Mauro Fiore; Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones
Source of Description Note:	Title from distributor's web site (viewed February 26, 2015).