The most highly anticipated sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, repeats the feats of its predecessor, Avatar. The new epic created by James Cameron stands now honored with Golden Globe nominations for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama.
The original 2009 sci-fi hit (at $3 billion, the biggest box office movie of all time) was the recipient of four Golden Globes nominations: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Soundtrack Motion Picture and Best Song Motion Picture. It won two: James Cameron was named Best Director and the film was considered the best drama of the year.
Avatar: The Way of Water was written by James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It picks up 15 years after the original storyline, when the Na’vi tribe won their battle with the humans who tried to invade Pandora.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Ney’tiri (Zoe Saldana) have been raising their family – including a human child, Spider, the son of nemesis Colonel Miles Quaritch – in an idyllic existence in the forest. They now face familiar obstacles when the humans return to try to colonize their home of Pandora while Earth is dying.
The family must leave the land that they love, where Sully is chief of the Omaticava clan, to relocate to where the Metkayina clan resides. If Sully and his family are going to survive, they must acquire underwater skills and understand the ways of a new culture.  They soon realize that they have brought their problems along. The humans, led by Colonel Quaritch, have tracked them.
Sigourney Weaver returns to the franchise and is joined by new cast members Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, and Jermaine Clement.
Filming took place in Wellington, New Zealand, where James Cameron shot for three years on a budget estimated to be anywhere between $350 and $460 million, which would make Avatar: The Way of the Water one of the most expensive films ever made.