James Cameron directed, wrote, produced, and co-edited Titanic, a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film. It became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide in just 74 days, on March 1, 1998. It is based on reports of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of various social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage, incorporating both historical and fictionalized components.
Cameron began filming the Titanic in 1995 when he shot footage of the actual shipwreck. The picture was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, with the former handling North American distribution and the latter handling worldwide distribution. With a production budget of $200 million, it was the most expensive film ever made at the time. Titanic was a critical and economic triumph when it was released on December 19, 1997, and it has since won countless accolades.
It was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, tying All About Eve (1950) for the most, and won 11 of them, including Best Picture and Best Director. Titanic 3D, which was released on April 4, 2012, to mark the sinking’s centennial, grossed an additional $343.6 million worldwide. Bringing the film’s global total to $2.195 billion and making it only the second picture to gross more than $2 billion (after Avatar).
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