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Titanic is a 1997 dramatic movie released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. The bulk of the plot is set aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic during her fateful maiden voyage in 1912. The movie won 11 Academy Awards on March 23, 1998 including best picture of 1997. Titanic has the highest box office take in movie history. The 1997 film is not to be confused with the movie with the same title made in 1953.
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The film was directed by James Cameron and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Frances Fisher, Kathy Bates, Eric Braeden, David Warner, Danny Nucci, Gloria Stuart, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Bernard Fox, Ioan Gruffudd and Bill Paxton.
When this epic disaster film was not finished in time for its scheduled July 1997 release date, it sent shockwaves throughout Hollywood: studio execs began wondering if they might have another Heaven's Gate on their hands. The two releasing studios, 20th Century Fox (which handled the international distribution and actually had movie rights to the Titanic name) and Paramount Pictures (which had the U.S. rights) panicked. By the middle of 1997 Titanic had become the most costly film ever made (its reported cost hovered in the $200 million range) and the bills were still coming in. When director James Cameron finally delivered the film to Paramount, it ran over 3 hours and it was anyone's guess whether he would ever work in Hollywood again. But Cameron stood his ground and threatened edit-happy studio executives with the message: "You will cut my film over my dead body."
Moved to a crowded release date of December 19, 1997, the film opened with little promotion, but brought in a respectable $US28 million in ticket sales for the weekend. Within a week the gross tripled. By New Year's Day, the film had hit $US100 million and showed no sign of slowing down. It held a virtual lock on first place at the box office for nearly four months and would become the highest grossing film of all-time with more than $US 1.8 billion in ticket sales worldwide. Now the studio executives claim they knew all along the film would be big.
Cameron, who fought tooth and nail to finish the film, was rewarded with an Academy Award for Best Director.
There are some factually inaccuracies in the script: The actor playing the designer, Thomas Andrews, claims the ship to be built of iron whereas she was built of steel. The "romantic" story is improbable as class distinction at the time meant complete class segregation except during the Sunday morning service in the first class dining saloon. The film is believed to be anti-British, reducing the historic story to a fight between villainous British officers and crew and heroic Americans.
The 1958 William MacQuitty and Roy Ward Baker film A Night to Remember starring Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Lightoller is considered by some to be a more historically accurate film, praised for its documentary-style quality. However after is was made in 1958, much of the events concerning the sinking were clarified in successive decades.
The film was criticised for its portrayal of a historical character, the ship's First Officer, William Murdoch class="external">[1
Another aspect of the film, the way in which the third class passengers were completely fenced in below decks, has been described as a myth [1].
Céline Dion, who was no stranger to movie songs in the 1990s, sang My Heart Will Go On, the film's signature song written by James Horner and Will Jennings. At first, Cameron did not want a song sung over the film's credits, but Horner disagreed, and without telling Cameron, went ahead and wrote one anyway, and recorded Dion singing it. Cameron changed his mind when Horner presented what he proposed, an excellent decision, as the song won a Best Original Song Oscar. The song was also a hit worldwide, going to the top of the pop charts around the world, another stellar financial success of its own.
Titanic won Oscarss in just about every category except for the acting and screenplay categories. Titanic was nominated in 14 categories and won 11 :
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