He also shouted out producer Jon Landau and a range of technical colleagues.
Its unfortunate, he said.
Released 15 years after the original film, it cleared the previous outings extremely high bar.
The immersive effects helped make the film a huge draw in Imax auditoriums.
With $2.3 billion and still grossing, the film is the third-biggest global release of all time.
The firstAvatarhad 11 VES nominations.
Cameron never lacked any confidence in his follow-up to the Oscar smashes ofAvatarandTitanic.
When it comes to the kind of emotive facial stuff that were doing…I mean, Thanos?
Give me a break, Cameron said in an interview with Comicbook.com.
You saw this [newAvatar] movie.
Its not even close.
Kimmel zinged the absent Cameronduring his opening monologue.
I mean, how does the Academy not nominate the man who directedAvatar?
What do they think he is, a woman?
