Avatar is the 2009 film set on the moon Pandora and directed by James Cameron.
The science-fiction epic stars Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, and Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine. Its story takes place in 2154, when humans exploit Pandora’s resources and conflict with the Na’vi. Jake enters a remotely operated Na’vi-human hybrid body called an avatar and becomes caught between the human mission and Pandora’s inhabitants.
Avatar became a major commercial success and won three Academy Awards, for cinematography, visual effects, and art direction. Its extensive use of stereoscopic 3D and digital performance technology helped make it a landmark of early twenty-first-century blockbuster filmmaking.
The title refers to the artificial bodies used by human operators, not to the moon itself. Pandora is the setting, while Avatar is the film’s title and the name of the technology central to the plot.