Titanic

This is the story of the rich girl and the poor boy who meet on the unsinkable ship, the majestic “Titanic”. On board this ship, an authentic portrait of the society of that century, Jack and Rose fall in love and live a short but intense love story. 

Considered the greatest love story of all.

In total, “Titanic” was nominated for 141 awards and won 92 of them, including 11 Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song and Best Art Direction), 8 Satellite Awards, 5 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, 4 Golden Globes (Best Director – Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Original Score – Motion Picture, Best Original Song – Motion Picture and Best Original Song (music and lyrics) – Motion Picture), 4 Grammy Awards (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Record of the Year, Best Song of the Year and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television), among many others. The awards are from 1997 until 2006.

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James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971.

In 1997, he wrote and directed one of the best movies in history, "Titanic". The movie went on to break all box office records and earned 11 Academy Awards. It became the highest grossing movie of all time. The rest is history. James Cameron is now one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood.

"The story could not have been written better...The juxtaposition of rich and poor, the gender roles played out unto death (women first), the stoicism and nobility of a bygone age, the magnificence of the great ship matched in scale only by the folly of the men who drove her hell-bent through the darkness. And above all the lesson: that life is uncertain, the future unknowable...the unthinkable possible."

— James Cameron

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. 

His career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films.

In 1997, DiCaprio starred in James Cameron’s “Titanic”, alongside Kate Winslet. Leo’s character was the twenty-year-old Jack Dawson, a penniless Wisconsin man who wins two tickets for the third-class on the fated “Titanic”.

"I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world. (…) I’ll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don’t expect to. It’s not something I’m going to try to achieve either.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 5, 1975 in Reading Berkshire, England. Winslet’s career began on television, with a co-starring role in “Dark Season”.

In 1997, Kate starred in James Cameron’s “Titanic”, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Winslet’s character was the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the sinking of “Titanic”.

"Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it… We were really scared about the whole adventure. (…) Jim (Cameron) is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting.”

— Kate Winslet

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Dion’s signature song “My Heart Will Go On” in the main theme song to “Titanic”. The song was written by Will Jennings, James Horner and Celine Dion and went number 1 all over the world. It won several awards and dominated the Grammy Awards of 1999, winning Record Of The Year (marking the first time to be won by a Canadian), Song Of The Year, Best Feamle Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television. “My Heart Will Go On” became on of the best-selling singles of all time and was the world’s best-selling single of 1998.
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Fact #1: Everyone wanted Matthew McConaughey for the role of Jack Dawson, but James Cameron insisted he wanted Leonardo DiCaprio.

Fact #2: The scenarios were supervised by the same company that built “Titanic”.

Fact #3: “Titanic” was the first movie that had a budget of 200 million dollars.

Fact #4: The actress Gloria Stuart was the only artist who lived the tragic accident in 1912. She also became the oldest actress in office in the history of cinema.

Fact #5: Kate Winslet was one of the few actresses who did not want to use the scuba equipment during the scenes of the sinking.

Fact#6: Unbeknownst to the director, James Horner met with Celine Dion to compose the main theme of the movie, “My Heart Will Go On”. After the recording they showed it to James Cameron that eventually included the theme in the movie.

Fact #7: The drawings by Jack Dawson were designed by James Cameron. The scene where DiCaprio is scribbling the drawing and appears the hand plan, is actually the director.

Fact #8: Caption Smith was to be played by Robert DeNiro, who rejected the role because he had food poisoning.

Fact #9: After writing the script, James Cameron discovered that one of the victims of the sinking was called J. Dawson. Currently his tomb is the most visited in the cemetery.

Fact #10: When Jack was preparing to draw Rose he says: “Lie down in bed, I mean, on the couch.” In the original script was “Lie on the couch.” James Cameron liked so much so much the error of Leonardo DiCaprio that decided to keep the scene.

Fact #11: The replica ship that was built for the movie was 10% less real than the real “Titanic”.

Fact #12: To keep the movie in secret during filming, Cameron titled it “Ice Planet”.

Fact #13: The movie was filmed in Mexico.

Fact #14: The scenes in water had to be shot at low temperature, otherwise the camera lenses would be blurred.

 Fact #15: James Cameron plunged 12 times to film the original “Titanic”. Some of the plans were used in the movie. 

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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. It was the largest ship afloat at the time of it's maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, it was built between 1909-11 by the Hartland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. It carried 2,223 people.

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A piece of history, and responsible for some of the biggest movies and collections of all time, the Titanic sinking celebrates it’s 100^th Anniversary today. The world remembers the 1,517 passengers lost on the vessel as it met an early fate on a cold night in the Atlantic Ocean.

The world will again recognize quite possibly the most famous ship in the history of the world. From voyage to sinking and everything in between , the Titanic has solidified it’s place in history.

Dedicated to the 1,517 passengers who lost 

their lives in the tragedy of Titanic.

We are praying for you today.