Titanic (1997)
91%RT Audience Score: 69%
Awards & Nominations: Won 11 Oscars
125 wins & 83 nominations total
A mostly unqualified triumph for James Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and old-fashioned melodrama.
Titanic is the ultimate movie for anyone who loves a good love story, epic adventure, and a little bit of tragedy. It’s like a rollercoaster ride that takes you from the highs of falling in love to the lows of a sinking ship. The special effects are mind-blowing, and the performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are unforgettable. Even if you know how it ends, you’ll still be on the edge of your seat, hoping for a different outcome. It’s a classic for a reason, and if you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for?
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
Titanic wreck, Titanic Canyon, North Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for disaster related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality and brief language
Year of Release
1997
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital DTSS DDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:3h 15m
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Language(s):English, Swedish, Italian, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 19, 1997 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2002
Genre(s)
Romance
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $2,201,647,264
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $4,104,048,528
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 4
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 447,551,639
US/Canada gross: $659,363,944
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,229,107,709
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 9
US/Canada opening weekend: $28,638,131
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $53,383,792
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 205
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $200,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $372,816,172
Production budget ranking: 9
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $200,761,509
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $3,530,470,847
ROI to date (est.): 616%
ROI ranking: 208
Kate Winslet – Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane – Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley
Kathy Bates – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Frances Fisher – Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart – Rose Dawson Calvert
Director(s)
James Cameron
Writer(s)
James Cameron
Producer(s)
James Cameron, Jon Landau
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 11 Oscars
125 wins & 83 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Art Direction Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Costume Design Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Directing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Editing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Editing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Visual Effects Winners, Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Original Score Winners, Oscar Original Song Winners, Oscar Winners
All Critics (235) | Top Critics (86) | Fresh (205) | Rotten (30)
Titanic is, in the end, and despite being prohibited to those under 12 years old, a film for children of all ages, for those ready to gasp at a parade of wonders and eager to be swept away.
March 17, 2022
Richard Williams
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Cameron has filled this saga almost to the bursting point with stories and themes that stretch from romance to expose, from parables of hubris to celebrations of industry. This is a great, sprawling film because it urgently needs to be so.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: A
Henry Sheehan
Orange County Register
TOP CRITIC
Ultimately, it is Cameron’s overweening ambition to overlay a grand journey of the human spirit atop all the thrills, spills and clinches that hobbles his epic, rendering it enjoyable but mediocre.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4
Adrian Martin
The Age (Australia)
TOP CRITIC
Strap on your life vests and dive on in: It’s wonderful hokum.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: A-
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TOP CRITIC
Visually, the movie is undeniably impressive; there’s no question where all the money went. As love stories go, this one is solid, but it’s a long way short of special.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
TOP CRITIC
Cameron has amplified and elaborated, and it has to be said, in circumstances like these, bigness has its own fascination.
March 17, 2022
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
TOP CRITIC
That sinking feeling
May 5, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/5
James Wegg
JWR
This is why movies were invented.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star
As epic mainstream entertainment, the film is the best Hollywood has produced since the late David Lean sent Lawrence to Arabia or Zhivago to Russia. As experience, it will strike those who let it as profound.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 4.5/5
John Griffin
Montreal Gazette
Titanic was expected to be impressive. It is, friends, much more than that. It attains a state of humbling majesty, evoking with a sense of unashamed grandeur a terribly out-of-style but vital emotion, awe.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: A-
Wallace Baine
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The young lovers, portrayed by the talented Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet, are beautiful and blessed in finding each other, and their story, as told by the old woman, humanizes an event daunting in its scope and impact.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
Eleanor O’Sullivan
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
The movie, however, is a triumph of truly titantic proportions. Proof that directors and actors can work alongside computer-generated effects without being swamped by the technology.
March 17, 2022 | Rating: 5/5
Joe Riley
Liverpool Echo…
Plot
84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were both nominated for Academy Awards for their performances in Titanic.
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