MOVIE FACTS!




The movie shares a record breaking 14 oscar nominations with All About Eve (1950), which won 6 oscars.

It equalled the oscar winning record of Ben Hur (1959) at the 1998 Academy awards, winning 11 Oscars.

Titanic has grossed a record £600 million world-wide in only 3 months, enabling it to overtake Jurassic Park (1993) as the most successful film ever.

Production staff nick named the film - "Poop deck : The movie" after director James Cameron asked for more action in that part of the ship.

At £125 million, Titanic was 50 times more expensive to make than British film, The Full Monty.

It is the biggest-ever hit in 22 different countries.

It has been seen by more than 100 million people world-wide.

A 775ft replica of the Titanic was reconstructed for the film, It was just 10% smaller than the real thing.

Twentieth Century Fox bought 40 acres of oceanfront property in Baha, Mexico and cuilt a £15 million facility called the "100 day studio" getting it's name from the amount of time it took to film the movie.

Filming ended exactly 1 year before the 1998 Acaedmy Awards.

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