Titanic
Titanic is a 1997 American epic novel and disaster film directed, written, produced and directed by James Cameron. Covering both historical and fictional aspects, this film is based on the story of the sinking of the Titanic and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of various social classes who fall in love while on board during their hapless maiden voyage.
Cameron was inspired by her passion for shipwrecks. He felt he needed a love story punctuated by loss of life to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995 when Cameron filmed the actual wreck of the Titanic. A modern scene from the research vessel was filmed at Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron used as a base for filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated renderings, and reconstructions of the Titanic produced by Baja Studios were used to recreate the sinking. The film was funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. The former dealt with North American distribution and the latter has released films internationally. At the time, it was the most expensive film ever made at a cost of $200 million.
Released on December 19, 1997, the Titanic was a major commercial success and later received much acclaim. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, the film won 11, including Best Picture and Best Director, jointly with All About Eve (1950) for an Oscar nomination and BenHur (1959) for an Oscar nomination. "Oscar" won for one film. With an initial worldwide box office gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic became the first film to cross the $1 billion mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's Avatar surpassed it in 2010. The 3D version of the Titanic, released on April 4, 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking, grossed an additional $343.6 million worldwide, increasing the film's gross worldwide gross. At $2.195 billion, it became the second film to gross over $2 billion (after Avatar). In 2017, the film was re-released to commemorate its 20th anniversary and was nominated for preservation by the US National Film Register.
- Gross: $2.194 billion
