Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations, and won 11, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben-Hur (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved significant critical and commercial success, and later received numerous accolades. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million.
The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox the former handled distribution in North America while the latter released the film internationally. Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Baja Studios were used to re-create the sinking. 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.
Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and 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.Ĭameron'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. Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.
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