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tanic 

is a 1997 American epic romance and 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 the RMS Titanic,
and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social
classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Also
starring are Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard
Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Victor Garber, and Bill Paxton.
Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he
felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey
the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995, when Cameron
shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the research
vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had
used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated
imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Baja Studios were used to re-
create the sinking. The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th
Century Fox; the former handled distribution in North America while the latter
released the film internationally. It was the most expensive film ever made at the
time, with a production budget of $200 million.
Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved significant critical and
commercial success, and then received numerous accolades. Nominated for
14 Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar
nominations, and won 11, including the awards for Best Picture and Best
Director, tying Ben-Hur (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. With an
initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the
billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until another
Cameron film, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. A 3D version of Titanic, released on
April 4, 2012, to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, earned it an
additional $343.6 million worldwide, pushing the film's worldwide total to
$2.195 billion and making it the second film to gross more than $2 billion
worldwide (after Avatar). In 2017, the film was re-released for its 20th
anniversary and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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