Titanic began its awards sweep starting with the Golden Globes, winning four including Best Film (Drama), Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Song. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart and James Cameron's screenplay were also nominated but lost.
It won the ACE "Eddie" Award, ASC Award, Art Directors Guild Award, Cinema Audio Society Award, Screen Actors Guild Awards, (Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart), The Directors Guild of America Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (Best Director James Cameron), and The Producer Guild of America Awards, It was also nominated for ten BAFTA awards including Best Film and Director.
It tied All About Eve for having the most Oscar nominations in history with 14. It won Best Picture and Best Director. It also picked up best costume design, visual effects, sound, sound effects, original dramatic score, film editing, song, art direction and cinematography. Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart and the Make-up artists were the only other nominees that failed to win. James Cameron's original screenplay and Leonardo DiCaprio were not nominated. It was the second movie to win eleven Academy Awards after Ben-Hur. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would also match the record in 2004.
My Heart Will Go On preformed by Celine Dion also won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television. It also won Best Movie and Best Male Performance for Leonardo DiCaprio at the MTV Movie Awards. The film was voted as Best Film at the People's Choice Awards. It won various awards outside the United States, including the Awards of the Japanese Academy as the Best Foreign Film of the year. Titanic eventually won 87 awards and had additional 47 nominations from various award giving bodies around the world.
The film received steady attendance after opening in North America on December 19, 1997. By Sunday that same weekend, theaters were beginning to sell out. The film debuted with $28,638,131. By the new year Titanic had increased in popularity and theaters continued selling out; unusually, it took fifteen weeks for its weekly gross to decline 50%, the most for any film in the 1990s. By March 1998 it was the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide. The movie stayed in theatres for over 6 months. Some theatres in South Africa ran it for longer than a year, bringing in approximately R40 Million ($5,490,671).
Titanic holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time in the North American market with $600,788,188. The previous North American record of $460,998,000 was held by Star Wars (another 20th Century Fox film). Unadjusted for the effect of inflation, Titanic also holds the record for the highest-grossing movie of all time in the worldwide box office with $1,835,300,000. The second place Return of the King is about $700 million short of Titanic's record. However, it will only place sixth, if the ticket price is adjusted for inflation worldwide. Gone with the Wind would be the number one movie on this ranking.
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