"Titanic" (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
"Titanic" is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the research vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Baja Studios, at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were used to re-create the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million.
Genre': Drama, Romance
Release date: December 19, 1997 (US)
Director: James Cameron
Screenplay by: James Cameron
Music by: James Horner
Cinematography: Russell Carpenter
Edited by: Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures (North America), 20th Century Fox (International)
Awards
- Best Picture
- Best Director
- Best Cinematography
- Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Best Costume Design
- Best Sound
- Best Film Editing
- Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
- Best Effects, Visual Effects
- Best Music, Original Song
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Director - Motion Picture
- Best Original Song - Motion Picture
- Best Original Score - Motion Picture
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** © 1997 - Twentieth Century Fox
"Titanic" (1997)
