List of accolades received by Titanic

List of accolades received by Titanic

Writer, producer, and director of Titanic, James Cameron

Awards and nominations Award Won Nominated ASCAP Awards 2 2 Academy Awards 11 14 Saturn Awards 1 3 Amanda Awards 1 1 Eddie Awards 1 1 American Society of Cinematographers 1 1 Annie Awards 1 1 Art Directors Guild 1 1 Awards of the Japanese Academy 1 1 BAFTA Awards 0 10 BMI Film and TV Awards 1 1 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 5 6 Blue Ribbon Awards 1 1 Bogey Awards 1 1 Brit Awards 1 1 British Society of Cinematographers 1 1 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 1 2 Casting Society of America 0 1 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1 2 Cinema Audio Society 1 1 Czech Lions 1 1 César Awards 0 1 MTV Movie Awards 2 8 Golden Globe Awards 4 8 Empire Awards 1 2 Grammy Awards 4 4 MTV Movie Awards 2 8 People's Choice Awards 2 2

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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] 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]

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 (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Sound Effects 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.

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