MOVIE: TITANIC [1997]

REVIEW# 110
MOVIE: TITANIC [1997]
Genre: Drama/Romance/Disaster movie
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,Kate Winslet
Director: James Cameron
IMDb rating: 7.8/10
Deeps rating: 8/10

#PLOT.
   The movie is all about the ill-fated romance of a seventeen year old girl from an aristocratic family,Rose [Kate Winslet] with a poor artist named Jack Dawson [Leonardo DiCaprio] in the luxurious RMS Titanic.The prestigious vessel in it's maiden voyage sank in the ocean after hitting an iceberg and so did their intense romance.

#AWARDS AND ACCOLADES.
OSCAR'S.
   The movie received 14 Academy nominations tying the record set by the movie All About Eye in 1950.Here are the details...
1. Best Picture- James Cameron
2. Best Director- James Cameron
3. Best Actress - Kate Winslet -Nominated
4. Best Supporting Actress- Gloria Stuart- Nominated
5. Best Art Direction- Peter Lamont,Michael D.Ford
6. Best Cinematography- Russel Carpenter
7. Best Costume Design- Deborah Lynn Scott
8. Best Film Editing- Conrad Buff,James Cameron, Richard A.Harris
9. Best Makeup - Tina Earnshaw,Greg Cannon,Simon Thompson- Nominated
10.Best Dramatic Score- James Hornor
11. Best Original Song- James Horner and Will Jennings
12. Best Sound- Gary Rydstrom,Tom Johnson,Gary Summers,Mark Ulano
13. Best Sound Effects- Tom Bellfort,Christopher Boyce
14. Best Visual Effects- Robert Legato,Marl A.Lasoff,Thomas L.Fischer,Michael Kanfer.

OTHER AWARDS.
1. It won four awards at the Golden Globes including the Best Picture and Best Director.
2. It won five awards at the Blockbuster entertainment Awards including Favorite Actor and Actress.
3. The song 'My heart will go on' won the Best song of the year at the Grammy's.
4. It won three awards at the MTV Movie Awards including the Best Director and Best Actor.
5. It received the Russian Guild of Film Critics for the Best Foreign Language Film.
6. It won seven awards at the Satellite awards including the Best Film,Actor and Actress.
and numerous other awards. 

#BOX OFFICE.
  Before it's release, Box office experts predicted that the movie will be a huge disaster just like it's story especially due to his heavy budget.Even James Cameron thought the movie will be a disaster after the first screening for the press.They wrote that this movie will be a jolt for Cameron's pride as the movie resembles the old Hollywood romantics.
  But finally when the film got released it oped to an earth shattering response not only in US but also in most of the countries across the world.It topped the charts for 15 straight weeks in US.It broke all domestic box office records for foreign films in many domestic markets around the world.The movie was remarked as' a movie that will make men cry'. Psychological studies were conducted all over the world to analyze the impact of this movie on teenagers.
  The movie held the box office record for the highest grossing film in the world for 12 years until the release of another James Cameron movie Avatar.Avatar may have crossed Titanic's revenue but Titanic still holds the record for the highest number in attendance.The movie collected a whooping $2.1 BILLION against a budget of $200 million.
 The movie was a turning point in the careers of both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.Their remunerations went sky high  after the release.Both were voted the most adorable pair ever seen in Hollywood.

TIP OF THE DAY: EVERYTHING MAN MADE WILL SINK ONE DAY.
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