Titanic
Titanicgave James Cameron the Academy Award for Best Director , but it was n’t the first movie about the Titanic to win the Oscar in that category . James Cameron is now mostly associated with the sci - fi writing style and bounteous - budget productions , and one of his most ambitious labor was put out in 1997 , but it was far from the sci - fi world : Titanic , a tragedy dramatic play movie base onthe tangible - life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912 .
However , Titanictells a fictional report led by fictional character reference , but through them , the audience get together characters based on real - lifetime passengers of the infamous ship . Titanic , then , follows Rose DeWitt Bukater ( Kate Winslet ) , a first - stratum youthful fair sex , and Jack Dawson ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) , a third - class rider who acquire his ticket on a golden game of poker mo before the ship sailed . Over the track of four days , Rose and Jack met , fell in love , and defended their Latinian language from those who looked down upon them , mostly those from the first - class side of the ship . unhappily , Jack and Rose ’s story ended in tragedy , with Jack becoming one of the many dupe of the sinking of the Titanic , and Rose being eventually rescue .
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Titanicbecame the most expensive pic ever madeat the sentence as well as the highest - gross motion-picture show of all time , a spot it held for many , many years . Titanicalso tie the track record set by the 1950 movieAll About Evewith 14 Academy Award nomination and gain 11 , among those Best Picture and Best Director – however , this was the second time a moving-picture show about the Titanic deliver the goods the Oscar in those category , and the first one wasCavalcade , in 1933 .
Every Other Historical Event 1933’s Cavalcade Covered
Cavalcadeis an epic drama movie conduct by Frank Lloyd and base on the 1931 play of the same name by Noël Coward . Cavalcadegives viewers a look into English life sentence in the first third of the 20th 100 , beginning on New Year ’s Eve 1899 and ending on New Year ’s Day 1933 . The story is assure from the level of view of Jane ( Diana Wynyard ) and Robert Marryot ( Clive Brook ) , their kids , faithful booster , and servants , and evidence how their lives are affected by several diachronic result . One of those events isthe sinking of theTitanic , as Jane and Robert ’s son , Edward , and his wife , Edith Harris , were on dining table the ship and , unfortunately , became one of the many rider who died when the ship go under . Other historical event addressed inCavalcade , of which some sham the character one way or another , are the Second Boer War ( where Robert and his butler , Alfred Bridges , served ) , the death of Queen Victoria , Louis Blériot ’s flight over the English Channel , and World War I , the latter visualise the death of Jane and Robert ’s other son , Joe .
Cavalcadewas a commercial hit and was mostly receive positively by critics , who called it “ telling ” and praised its emotional charge – however , there ’s a apparition overCavalcadeas it was reportedly Adolf Hitler ’s favorite movie . Still , Cavalcadewent on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Art Direction ( William S. Darling ) , and was also nominated for Best Actress ( Diana Wynyard ) , but lose to Katherine Hepburn forMorning Glory , thus making itthe first picture show about the Titanic(although only partially , as the tragedy of the ship was n’t the middle of the chronicle ) to gain Best Director and Best Picture . James Cameronmight have not been the first one to take the Oscar for Best Director for a movie about the sinking feeling of theTitanic , but he was definitely the one who did so with a movie full centered on this real - life tragedy .
