James Cameron’s romantic disaster movie spent 17 weeks topping the box office charts on its way to a $2 billion gross and 11 Academy Awards. Not too shabby for such a harrowing experience (and that’s just the love scenes). Not for the last time, you might wish Cameron hired a writer to polish his dialogue. But in 21-year-old Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio (22) he found the right beautiful young things to bring the love story to life, and when it comes to engineering the shipwreck, the filmmaker is in his element. It was the biggest blockbuster of the decade, and indeed the biggest box office hit of all time* until Cameron’s Avatar (2009). It left an indelible mark on a generation of young moviegoers.
*Gone with the Wind is still champ if you adjust for inflation but Titanic would come in #3
Staff Pick: Abbie
The first spectacle in decades that honestly invites comparison to Gone With the Wind.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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James Cameron
Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton
USA
1997
English
11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director
Violence, coarse language
Open to youth
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Credits
Screenwriter
James Cameron
Cinematography
Russell Carpenter
Editor
Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Original Music
James Horner
Production Design
Peter Lamont
90s, Baby!
Ten years. 11 weeks. 90 films from the 1990s. This summer, 90’s Baby! takes a deep dive into a defining decade of cinema.