TITANIC (1997 FILM)

TITANIC (1997 FILM)

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, and Bill Paxton

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, based on the accounts of the RMS Titanic's sinking in 1912. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's maiden voyage, the film features an ensemble cast including Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, and Bill Paxton. The production, co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox with a budget of $200 million, utilized scale models, CGI, and a reconstruction of the Titanic, and filming took place from July 1996 to March 1997, including footage of the actual wreck shot by Cameron in 1995.