Titanic 1997

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 194 min

genre: historical

theme: epic

director: James Cameron

Score: 8 / 10

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's maiden voyage. The film also features an ensemble cast of Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.

Plot

In 1996, aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, Brock Lovett and his team search the wreck of RMS ''Titanic''. They recover a safe they hope contains a necklace with a large diamond known as the Heart of the Ocean. Instead, they find only a drawing of a young naked woman wearing the necklace. The sketch is dated April 14, 1912, the same day the Titanic struck the iceberg that caused it to sink. After viewing a television news story about the discovery, centenarian Rose Dawson Calvert contacts Lovett, identifying herself as the woman in the drawing. Hoping she can help locate the necklace, Lovett brings Rose aboard Keldysh, where she recounts her experiences as a Titanic passenger.

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author	James Cameron
award	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Song Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Song MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture Satellite Award for Best Film Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
contentLocation	New York City North Atlantic Ocean RMS Carpathia Southampton Titanic
director	James Cameron
editor	Conrad Buff James Cameron Richard A. Harris
events	Belle Époque disaster distinction forbidden love Intercultural relationship shipwrecking Titanic
genre	adventure drama historical romance social
keywords	1929 wall street crash akademik mstislav keldysh centenarian cold shock cold shock response confine draw financial problem flood freeze grand staircase grand staircase of the titanic hear hide iceberg that struck the titanic lose lost child master-at-arms one person renault towncar sink struck the iceberg transom transom panel wall street wall street crash of 1929 widowed mother wreck of rms \'\'titanic\'\
musicBy	James Horner
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Song Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Visual Effects César Award for Best Foreign Film Empire Award for Best Actress European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Saturn Award for Best Classic Film DVD Release
producer	James Cameron Jon Landau
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures
publisher	20th Century Fox Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	Long Beach Mexico Nova Scotia Polsa Rosa Movie Ranch San Francisco Vancouver
theme	3d disaster epic narrative romantic drama survival