I just watched Titanic on TV.  I had not seen that movie in years. I remember how popular it was when I was a kid
It came out when i was in 5th grade, 1997. James Cameron did so well.
Yes, he won the Academy Award for best director.  The film also won best picture and 9 other Academy Awards
To think he started with just being interested in shipwrecks.
He did a lot of research for the film and it really paid off in how the movie displayed the wreck
It was more expensive then you'd think, 200 million.
But it more than made its money back.  It was the first film to make over 2 billion at the box office
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS "Titanic", it 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.
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
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