Titanic film in 1997

Titanic is the 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, co-produced, written, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the dipping of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, associate of different social classes who fall in love on board the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyag. Creation on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real Titanic wreck. The recent scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had use as a foundation when filming the actual wreck. A rebuilding of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generate imagery were also used to reconstruct the sinking.

Titanic was an enormous serious and commercial success. It was selected for fourteen Academy Awards, eventually winning eleven, with Best Picture and Best Director. It become the maximum grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion the first film to attain the billion dollar mark and remain so for twelve years awaiting Cameron's after that directorial effort, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. Titanic is also rank as the sixth top epic film of all time in AFI's 10 Top 10 by the American Film Institute. The film is due for dramatic re-release in 2012 after Cameron complete its conversion into 3-D.

Director	James Cameron
Producer	James Cameron, Jon Landau
Written by	James Cameron
Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill
Music by	James Horner
Editing by	James Cameron, Conrad Buff IV, Richard A. Harris
Studio	20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment
Release date(s)	December 19, 1997
Running time	194 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$200 million
Gross revenue	$1,843,201,268

Leonardo DiCaprio - American actor

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is a American actor and film producer. He has got multiple awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). In addition, he has won a Silver Bear, a Chlotrudis Award and a Satellite Award among others, and has been selected by the Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by show in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.

He made his film entrance in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 (1991) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life (1993). DiCaprio achieved respect for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Marvin's Room (1995), and The Basketball Diaries (1996), before corridor a leading role in Romeo + Juliet (1996), and came to international fame with his role in James Cameron's Titanic (1997), the maximum grossing film for more than 12 years until 2010.

Born Name	Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Date of Birth	November 11, 1974
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, film producer