John Cameron began his career in film-making with a series of inventive shorts in collaboration with high school friends Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Cameron left New York University film school to work on Raimi's first feature The Evil Dead, and subsequently worked as Raimi's assistant director on Crimewave, Army of Darkness and The Quick and the Dead. Soon thereafter he began a lengthy association with the Coen Brothers, first as assistant director on The Hudsucker Proxy, then as co-producer on the Oscar-winning hit Fargo, as well as The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Cameron went on to produce the box office hit Bad Santa for Dimension and executive produce Friday Night Lights for Universal and director Peter Berg. After that successful collaboration, he went on to co-found the film and television production company Film 44 with Berg and producer Sarah Aubrey. While there he executive produced the Universal feature The Kingdom and continues to serve as co-executive producer on the award winning Friday Night Lights television series for NBC. Last year, Cameron produced the Academy Award nominated Lars and the Real Girl. Most recently, he was executive producer on the upcoming Sony/Screen Gems film Lakeview Terrace, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Samuel L. Jackson.