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
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet really made names for them selfs on that RMS Titanic.
Yes, and they starred in another movie together ten years later.  It was called Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road (film)
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of the feature film "Argo" (2012). It was directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendez. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture. When interviewed in 2013 by "ShowBizCafe.com", Mendez was asked how he felt about being portrayed by Ben Affleck, who is non-Hispanic. Mendez noted that losing his father when he was young meant he did not learn Spanish nor much of his father's culture. He said, "I don't think of myself as a Hispanic.