

Titanic received multiple nominations to many awards, including 14 Academy Awards nominations, of which it won 11, among those Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Song. Related: Titanic: The Actors Who Almost Played Jack & Rose Titanic was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million, and became the highest-grossing film ever until Cameron’s Avatar (which was later surpassed by Avengers: Endgame). The film followed Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Back in 1997, just three years after the release of True Lies, James Cameron returned with his biggest production at the time: Titanic, a romance and disaster film based on the accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. But even though the song became a worldwide hit, James Cameron wasn’t fully on board with it at the beginning – here’s what happened.

Titanic has become a classic for its production, performances, and its song, “My Heart Will Go On”, performed by Céline Dion.
