Titanic (motion picture, 1997)

Titanic (motion picture, 1997), drama about the sinking of a luxury liner during its first transatlantic voyage, based on the true story of the Titanic disaster that occurred in 1912. Released in 1997, this box-office hit won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. The young adventurer Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) wins a third-class ticket on the luxury liner in a poker game. While on board, he saves Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) from killing herself, and although she is already engaged to a very wealthy man (Billy Zane), the two fall in love. The ship hits an iceberg and sinks rapidly because of a major flaw in its design. More than a thousand people die in the wreckage, including Dawson. The story is told in a series of flashbacks by the 101-year-old Bukater (Gloria Stuart) as she revisits the site of the disaster. This blockbuster cost more than $200 million to make and earned more than $530 million in the United States during the first year of its release. Many other movies about the Titanic have been made, including Titanic (1953) and A Night to Remember (1958).

Director

• James Cameron

Cast

• Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson)
• Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater)
• Billy Zane (Cal Hockley)
• Kathy Bates (Molly Brown)
• Frances Fisher (Ruth DeWitt Bukater)
• Bernard hill (Captain E. J. Smith)
• Jonathan Hyde (J. Bruce Ismay)
• Danny Nucci (Fabrizio De Rossi)
• David Warner (Spicer Lovejoy)
• Bill Paxton (Brock Lovett)
• Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)
• Victor Garber (Thomas Andrews)
• Suzy Amis (Lizzy Calvert)
• Lewis Abernathy (Lewis Bodine)
• Nicholas Cascone (Bobby Buell)
• Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch (Anatoly Milkailavich)
• Jason Barry (Tommy Ryan)
• Ewan Stewart (First officer Murdoch)
• Ioan Gruffudd (Fifth officer Lowe)
• Jonathan Phillips (Second officer Lightoller)
• Mark Lindsay Chapman (Chief officer Wilde)
• Richard Graham (Quartermaster Rowe)
• Paul Brightwell (Quartermanter Hichens)
• Ron Donachie (Master at arms)
• Eric Braeden (John Jacob Astor)
• Charlotte Chatton (Madeleine Astor)
• Bernard Fox (Colonel Archibald Gracie)
• Michael Ensigh (Benjamin Guggenheim)
• Fannie Brett (Madame Aubert)
• Jenette Goldstein (Irish mommy)
• Camilla Overbye Roos (Helga Dahl)
• Linda Kerns (Third class woman)
• Amy Gaipa (Trudy Bolt)
• Martin Jarvis (Sir Duff Gordon)
• Rosalind Ayres (Lady Duff Gordon)
• Rochelle Rose (Countess of Rothes)
• Jonathan Evans-Jones (Wallace Hartley)
• Brian Watsh (Irish man)
• Rocky Taylor (Bert Cartwell)
• Alexandrea Owens (Cora Cartwell)
• Simon Crane (Fourth officer Boxhall)
• Edward Fletcher (Sixth officer Moody)
• Scott G. Anderson (Frederick Fleet)
• Martin East (Lookout Lee)
• Craig Kelly (Harold Bride)
• Gregory Cooke (Jack Phillips)
• Liam Tuohy (Chief Baker Joughin)
• James Lancaster (Father Byles)
• Elsa Raven (Ida Straus)
• Lew Palter (Isidor Straus)
• Reece P. Thompson III (Irish little boy)
• Laramie Landis (Irish little girl)
• Alison Waddell (Cal's crying girl)
• Amber Waddell (Cal's crying girl)
• Mark Rafael Truitt (Yaley)
• John Walcutt (First class husband)
• Terry Forrestal (Chief engineer Bell)
• Derrick Lea (Leading stoker Barrett)
• Richard Ashton (Carpenter John Hutchinson)
• Sean. M. Nepita (Elevator operator)
• Brendan Connolly (Scotland road steward)
• David Cronelly (Crewman)
• Garth Wilton (First class waiter)
• Martin Laing (Promenade deck steward)
• Richard Fox (Steward no. one)
• Nick Meaney (Steward no. two)
• Kevin Owers (Steward no. three)
• Mark Capri (Steward no. four)
• Marc Cass (Hold steward no. one)
• Paul Herbert (Hold steward no. two)
• Emmett James (First class steward)
• Christopher Byrne (Stairwell steward)
• Oliver Page (Steward Barnes)
• James Garrett (Titanic porter)
• Erik Holland (Olaf Dahl)
• Jari Kinnunen (Bjorn Gunderson)
• Anders Falk (Olaus Gunderson)
• Martin Hub (Slovakian father)
• Seth Adkins (Slovakian three-year-old boy)
• Barry Dennen (Praying man)
• Vern Urich (Man in water)
• Rebecca Jane Klingler (Mother at stern)
• Tricia O’Neil (Woman)
• Kathleen S. Dunn (Woman in water)
• Romeo Francis (Syrian man)
• Mandana Marino (Syrian woman)
• Van Ling (Chinese man)
• Dan Pettersson (Sven)
• Shay Duffin (Pubkeeper)
• Greg Ellis (Carpathia steward)
• Diana Morgan (News reporter)
• Ferenc Szelák (String ensemble)
• Werner Giger (String ensemble)
• Thomas Füri (String ensemble)
• Lorenz Hasler (String ensemble)
• Béla Szedlák (String ensemble)
• Kris Andersson (Dancer)
• Bobbie Bates (Dancer)
• Aaron James Cash (Dancer)
• Anne Fletcher (Dancer)
• Ed Forsyth (Dancer)
• Andie Hicks (Dancer)
• Scott Hislop (Dancer)
• Stan Mazin (Dancer)
• Lisa Ratzin (Dancer)
• Julene Renee (Dancer)

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Picture (1997)
• Academy Award for Best Director (1997): James Cameron
• Academy Award for Best Film Editing (1997): Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
• Academy Award for Best Original Song (1997): James Horner, Will Jennings, “My Heart Will Go On”
• Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score (1997): James Horner
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction (1997): Michael Ford, Peter Lamont
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography (1997): Russell Carpenter
• Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (1997): Thomas L. Fisher. Michael Kanfer, Mark A. Lasoff, Robert Legato
• Academy Award for Best Costume Design (1997): Deborah Lynn Scott
• Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing (1997): Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes
• Academy Award for Best Sound (1997): Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Drama (1998)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Director (1998): James Cameron
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1998): James Horner
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1998): James Horner, Will Jennings, “My Heart Will Go On”

Trivia

• Director Cameron’s brother Mike Cameron and Panavision invented a special underwater camera mechanism capable of withstanding the high atmospheric pressure at the bottom of the ocean, so the director could get footage shot inside the actual Titanic.
• The filmmakers built a 90-percent-to-scale model of the ship for this movie. It took nine months to shoot the movie, during which the cost of the movie exceeded the budget by more than $100 million.
• Director Cameron sketched the pictures of Bukater that appear in this movie. In the scene where Dawson is supposed to be drawing Bukater, Cameron’s hands are shown sketching.

Quotes

• Dawson (standing at the prow of the ship): “I’m the king of the world!”