"and ""Titanic"" (1997). In June 2010, Cameron met in Washington with the EPA to discuss possible solutions to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill. Later that week at the All Things Digital Conference, he attracted some notoriety when he stated, ""Over the last few weeks I've watched ... and been thinking, 'Those morons don't know what they're doing'."" Reportedly, Cameron had offered BP help to plug the oil well, but it declined. The oil spill was eventually stopped using techniques similar to those Cameron recommended. On March 7, 2012, Cameron took the ""Deepsea Challenger"" submersible to the bottom of"
"CGI technology during the 1990s include such films as ""Twister"", ""Independence Day"", ""Daylight"", ""Dante's Peak"", ""Volcano"", ""Hard Rain"", ""Deep Impact"", and ""Armageddon"". In 1997, James Cameron produced, wrote and directed a version of the epic story, ""Titanic"". The film combined romance with intricate special effects and was a huge success, becoming the highest-grossing film (which it remained for twelve years) with over $2.1 billion worldwide, and winning 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Movies from the disaster film genre are often based on novels. In many cases, the novels were bestsellers or critically acclaimed works. Three of"
"a beautiful new way."" Titanic (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"", it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage"
"Titanic (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"", it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual ""Titanic"""
"(2005). He returned to directing features in 2009 with the 3D science fiction film ""Avatar"". It grossed over $2.78 billion at the worldwide box-office and became the highest grossing of all time surpassing ""Titanic"". The film still holds this record as of 2017. ""Avatar"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won three in technical categories. Cameron also earned a second Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. He followed this by executive producing two 3D films, ""Sanctum"" (2011) and """" (2012), as well as the documentary ""Deepsea Challenge 3D"" (2014). Cameron made his television"
"with credits for ""An American Tail"" (1986); ""The Land Before Time"" (1988); ""The Rocketeer"" and """" (1991); ""Once Upon a Forest"" and ""We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"" (1993); ""The Pagemaster"" (1994); ""Casper"", ""Jumanji"" and ""Balto"" (1995); ""Mighty Joe Young"" (1998); and ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" (2000). Horner scored six films in 1995, including his commercially successful and critically acclaimed works for ""Braveheart"" and ""Apollo 13"", both of which received Academy Award nominations. Horner's biggest critical and financial success came in 1997 with his score for James Cameron's ""Titanic"". At the 70th Academy Awards, Horner received the Oscar for Best"
"Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with the other producers. It had a total of 14 Oscar nominations (tying the record set by the 1950 drama ""All About Eve"") and won 11 (tying the record set by the 1959 epic historical drama ""Ben-Hur""). Cameron also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and shared the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama with the other producers. He followed this by directing, and producing two underwater documentaries: ""Ghosts of the Abyss"" (2003), and ""Aliens of the Deep"""
"on December 19, 1997, ""Titanic"" achieved critical and commercial success. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, it tied ""All About Eve"" (1950) for the most Oscar nominations, and won 11, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying ""Ben-Hur"" (1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, ""Titanic"" was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's ""Avatar"" surpassed it in 2010. A 3D version of ""Titanic,"" released on April 4, 2012, to commemorate the centennial of the"
"Ghosts of the Abyss Ghosts of the Abyss is a 2003 documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. It was directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron after his 1997 Oscar-winning film ""Titanic"". During August and September 2001, Cameron and a group of scientists staged an expedition to the wreck of the RMS ""Titanic"", and dived in Russian deep-submersibles to obtain more detailed images than anyone had before. With the help of two small, purpose-built remotely operated vehicles, nicknamed ""Jake"" and ""Elwood"", the audience too can see inside the ""Titanic"", and with the help of CGI, audiences"
"1997 MTV Movie Awards The 1997 MTV Movie Awards were held on June 10, 1997, and hosted by Mike Myers. Performers included Jewel, Bush, and En Vogue. This year also eliminated the categories of ""Most Desirable Female"" and ""Most Desirable Male."" Scream"" Tom Cruise – ""Jerry Maguire"" Claire Danes – ""Romeo + Juliet"" Matthew McConaughey – ""A Time To Kill"" Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery – ""The Rock"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Bush — ""Machinehead"" (from ""Fear"") Vivica A. Fox and Will Smith – ""Independence Day"" Truck Drives Through Farm Equipment –"
"1997, less than a year after the release of ""Scream"". After the unexpected success of ""Scream"", by late 1997, ""Scream 2"" was considered such a potential box office success that the James Bond film ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" and James Cameron's future hit ""Titanic"" were moved from their release date of December 12 to December 19 so as to not face the film as competition. ""Scream 2"" opened in 2,663 theaters and took $32,926,342 on its opening weekend in box-office receipts, a $27 million increase over ""Scream"", and went on to take $101,122,258 in the US with, as of 2011, a"
"second best film of 1997. Almar Haflidason of the BBC wrote that ""the sinking of the great ship is no secret, yet for many exceeded expectations in sheer scale and tragedy"" and that ""when you consider that [the film] tops a bum-numbing three-hour running time, then you have a truly impressive feat of entertainment achieved by Cameron"". Joseph McBride of ""Boxoffice Magazine"" concluded, ""To describe ""Titanic"" as the greatest disaster movie ever made is to sell it short. James Cameron's recreation of the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner is one of the most magnificent pieces of serious popular entertainment"
"dansu?"") • Japan<br> 3. ""Irma Vep"" • France Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997 The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings of the Dove""<br> 2. Katrin Cartlidge – ""Career Girls""<br> 3. Tilda Swinton – ""Female Perversions"" 1. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""One Night Stand"" 1. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 2. Joan Cusack –"
"held in 1990, and he had hosted the previous year's gala. Nearly a month earlier in an event held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 28, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Ashley Judd. ""Titanic"" won a record-tying eleven awards including Best Director for James Cameron and Best Picture. Other winners included ""As Good as It Gets"", ""Good Will Hunting"" and ""L.A. Confidential"" with two awards, and ""The Full Monty"", ""Geri's Game"", ""Karakter"", ""The Long Way Home"", ""Visas and Virtue"", ""Men in Black"" and ""A Story of Healing"" with one."
"1997. It has since been re-released in a 2-disc special edition that was concurrently released across North America and much of Europe. To coincide the film's 50th anniversary, Warner Archive Collection released a manufacture-on-demand Blu-ray on May 3, 2016 that’s sold exclusively to online retailers. The film is one of only two films (the other being ""Cimarron"") to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards. Each of the four actors was nominated for an Oscar but only Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis won, for Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively. The film also won the Black and"
"the spirit of the older song and ""Departure"" was created. it was produced, mixed, and all instruments played by Phillips in his garage studio though this was not credited in the CD booklet. Ghosts of the Abyss Ghosts of the Abyss is a 2003 documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. It was directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron after his 1997 Oscar-winning film ""Titanic"". During August and September 2001, Cameron and a group of scientists staged an expedition to the wreck of the RMS ""Titanic"", and dived in Russian deep-submersibles to obtain more detailed images"
"""Twister"" Fairuza Balk vs. Robin Tunney – ""The Craft"" 1997 MTV Movie Awards The 1997 MTV Movie Awards were held on June 10, 1997, and hosted by Mike Myers. Performers included Jewel, Bush, and En Vogue. This year also eliminated the categories of ""Most Desirable Female"" and ""Most Desirable Male."" Scream"" Tom Cruise – ""Jerry Maguire"" Claire Danes – ""Romeo + Juliet"" Matthew McConaughey – ""A Time To Kill"" Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery – ""The Rock"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Jim Carrey – ""The Cable Guy"" Bush — ""Machinehead"" (from ""Fear"") Vivica A. Fox and Will Smith"
"Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997 The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings of the Dove""<br> 2. Katrin Cartlidge – ""Career Girls""<br> 3. Tilda Swinton – ""Female Perversions"" 1. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""One Night Stand"" 1. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 2. Joan Cusack – ""In & Out""<br> 3. Alison Elliott – ""The"
"Control<br> 2. ""4 Little Girls""<br> 3. """" 1997 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 32nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1998, honored the best filmmaking of 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Curtis Hanson – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Atom Egoyan – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Robert Duvall – ""The Apostle""<br> 2. Peter Fonda – ""Ulee's Gold""<br> 3. Dustin Hoffman – ""Wag the Dog""<br> 3. Ian Holm – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Julie Christie – ""Afterglow""<br>"
"for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing. After ""Titanic"", Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-fiction epic ""Avatar"" (2009), which was in particular a landmark for 3D technology, and for which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. Despite ""Avatar"" being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making ""Titanic"" and ""Avatar"", Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by"
"– """" ""' Ben Kingsley – ""Sexy Beast"" ""' Jennifer Connelly – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' James Franco – ""James Dean"" ""' Judy Davis – """" 7th Critics' Choice Awards The 7th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2002, honoring the finest achievements of 2001 filmmaking. ""' Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' ""Shrek"" ""' ""Gosford Park"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""I Am Sam"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Ron Howard – ""A Beautiful Mind"" (TIE) ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" (TIE) ""' ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's"
"Monty"" ""' ""Nil by Mouth"" ""' ""L'Appartement"" ""' ""The Wings of the Dove"" ""Romeo + Juliet"" - Nellee Hooper ""' ""Romeo + Juliet"" ""' ""Romeo + Juliet"" - Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce ""' ""Nil by Mouth"" - Gary Oldman ""' ""L.A. Confidential"" ""' ""The Fifth Element"" ""' Tom Wilkinson - ""The Full Monty"" ""' Sigourney Weaver - ""The Ice Storm"" 51st British Academy Film Awards The 51st BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 19 April 1998, honoured the best in film for 1997. Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty won the award"
"1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards The 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards were held on June 3, 1995 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. The awards originally had categories for both video and theatrical releases. Below is a complete list of winners. Sandra Bullock, Speed Sandra Bullock, Speed Meg Ryan, When a Man Loves a Woman Demi Moore, Disclosure Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act 2 Jodie Foster, Maverick Angela Bassett, What's Love Got To Do With It Cameron Diaz, The Mask Harrison Ford, The Fugitive Harrison Ford, Clear and Present Danger Tom Hanks, Philadelphia Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, The"
"1997 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 32nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1998, honored the best filmmaking of 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Curtis Hanson – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Atom Egoyan – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Robert Duvall – ""The Apostle""<br> 2. Peter Fonda – ""Ulee's Gold""<br> 3. Dustin Hoffman – ""Wag the Dog""<br> 3. Ian Holm – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Julie Christie – ""Afterglow""<br> 2. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings"
"Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1995, DiCaprio played the American author Jim Carroll in ""The Basketball Diaries"" and the French poet Arthur Rimbaud in ""Total Eclipse"". The following year he played Romeo Montague in the Baz Luhrmann-directed film ""Romeo + Juliet"" (1996). DiCaprio starred opposite Kate Winslet in the James Cameron-directed film ""Titanic"" (1997). The film became the highest grossing at the worldwide box-office, and made him famous globally. For his performance, he received the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. In"
"became famous. These Hong Kong action trends were later adopted by many Hollywood action films in the 1990s and 2000s. The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States. Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as """" (1991), ""Jurassic Park"" (1993) and ""Titanic"" (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until ""Avatar"" (2009), also directed by James Cameron, independent films like Steven Soderbergh's ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989) and Quentin Tarantino's ""Reservoir Dogs"" (1992) had significant commercial success both at the"
"""Link"" and ""FX2: The Deadly Art of Illusion"". In the 1990s, he returned to Australia where he directed ""Hotel Sorrento"", ""Brilliant Lies"" and ""Visitors"", before he died of cancer in 2007. David Cameron graduated from NIDA and became an actor, beginning with a role in the ABC's ""Bellbird"", in 1969 and since appeared in string of Australian TV series, miniseries and feature film appearances, including ""Against the Wind"", ""Dawn!"", ""Water under the Bridge"" (for which he received a Logie nomination), ""My First Wife"" and ""Mad Max"". In 1995, he turned to directing television, commercials and corporate documentaries, including ""Stingers"", ""SeaChange"","
"Sound (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song. Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart and the make-up artists were the three nominees that did not win. James Cameron's original screenplay and Leonardo DiCaprio were not nominees. It was the second film to receive eleven Academy Awards, after ""Ben-Hur"". """" would also match this record in 2004. ""Titanic"" won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as three Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture"
"film from 1998 until 2010, when Cameron's 2009 film ""Avatar"" surpassed its gross. The CG visuals surrounding the sinking and destruction of the ship were considered spectacular. Despite criticism during production of the film, it received a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations (tied with ""All About Eve"") at the 1998 Academy Awards. It won 11 Oscars (also tying the record for most Oscar wins with ""Ben-Hur"" and later """"), including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song."
"7th Critics' Choice Awards The 7th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2002, honoring the finest achievements of 2001 filmmaking. ""' Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' ""Shrek"" ""' ""Gosford Park"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""I Am Sam"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Ron Howard – ""A Beautiful Mind"" (TIE) ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" (TIE) ""' ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"" ""' ""Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)"" • France ""' ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' ""Memento"" – Christopher Nolan ""' ""May It Be"" performed by Enya"
"– ""Forrest Gump"" 1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – ""Leaving Las Vegas"" 1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – ""Shine"" 1997: Peter Fonda as Ulysses ""Ulee"" Jackson – ""Ulee's Gold"" 1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – ""The Truman Show"" 1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – ""American Beauty"" 2000: Russell Crowe – ""Gladiator"" as Maximus Decimus Meridius 2001: Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" as John Nash 2002: Jack Nicholson – ""About Schmidt"" as Warren Schmidt 2003: Sean Penn – ""Mystic River"" as Jimmy Markum 2004: Paul Giamatti – ""Sideways"" as Miles Raymond 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman –"
"in the United States, making it the most watched Oscars telecast since the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. The nominees for the 67th Academy Awards were announced on February 14, 1995, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Arthur Hiller, the president of the Academy, and actress Angela Bassett. ""Forrest Gump"" earned the most nominations with thirteen. It was the most nominated film since 1966's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and the fifth film to earn that many nominations. ""Bullets over Broadway"", ""The Shawshank Redemption"", ""Pulp Fiction"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced"
"sank and had an actual survivor as its star—the silent film actress Dorothy Gibson. The British film ""A Night to Remember"" (1958) is still widely regarded as the most historically accurate movie portrayal of the sinking. The most financially successful by far has been James Cameron's ""Titanic"" (1997), which became the highest-grossing film in history up to that time, as well as the winner of 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cameron. The ""Titanic"" disaster was commemorated through a variety of memorials and monuments to the victims, erected in several English-speaking countries"