List of accolades received by Titanic
Titanic began its awards sweep starting with the Golden Globes, winning four, namely Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.[1] Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart were also nominees.[2] It won the ACE "Eddie" Award, ASC Award, Art Directors Guild Award, Cinema Audio Society Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award (Best Supporting Actress for Gloria Stuart), The Directors Guild of America Award, and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (Best Director for James Cameron), and The Producer Guild of America Award.[3] It was also nominated for ten BAFTA awards, including Best Film and Best Director; it failed to win any.[3]
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The film garnered fourteen Academy Awards nominations, tying the record set in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve[4] and won eleven: Best Picture (the second film about the Titanic to win that award, after 1933's Cavalcade), Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Sound Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song.[3][5] 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.[6] It was the second film to win eleven Academy Awards, after Ben-Hur.[3] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 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 or Television.[3][7][8] The film's soundtrack became the best-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack of all time, and became a worldwide success, spending sixteen weeks at number-one in the United States, and was certified diamond for over eleven million copies sold in the United States alone.[9] The soundtrack also became the best-selling album of 1998 in the U.S.[10] "My Heart Will Go On" won the Grammy Awards for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television. The film also won Best Male Performance for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Movie at the MTV Movie Awards, Best Film at the People's Choice Awards, and Favorite Movie at the 1998 Kids' Choice Awards.[3] It won various awards outside the United States, including the Awards of the Japanese Academy as the Best Foreign Film of the Year.[3] Titanic eventually won nearly ninety awards and had an additional forty-seven nominations from various award-giving bodies around the world.[3] Additionally, the book about the making of the film was at the top of The New York Times' bestseller list for several weeks, "the first time that such a tie-in book had achieved this status".[11]
Since its release, Titanic has appeared on six American Film Institute's award-winning 100 Years… series.
Accolades
References
- "Titanic sweeps Golden Globes". BBC News. January 19, 1998. Retrieved February 19, 2007.
- "Nominations for the 55th Golden Globe Awards". BBC. January 17, 1998. Retrieved February 19, 2007.
- "Titanic Awards and Nominations". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
- "Can Anything Stop the Raising of Titanic on March 23?". The New York Observer. February 22, 1998. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- "The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- Davis, Jason (March 24, 1998). "Love story that won the heart of the Academy: The love story that stole the world's hearts". BBC News. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
- "Past Winners Search - 1998 - 41st Annual Grammy Awards". The Recording Academy. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
- "41st Annual GRAMMY Awards". The Recording Academy. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- "Gold & Platinum – July 28, 2009". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on February 25, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- "The Billboard 200: 1998". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008.
- "James Cameron's Titanic". Media Awareness Network. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved January 24, 2010.