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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
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!”
- Ruth DeWitt Bukater (to her daughter’s fiancé): “So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.”
- Cal Hockley: “It is unsinkable. God himself couldn’t sink this ship.”
- Dawson (to a table full of first-class passengers): “I love waking up in the morning not knowing where I'm gonna go or who I'm gonna meet. Just the other day I was sleeping under a bridge, and now I'm on the grandest ship in the world drinking champagne with you fine people.”
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