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Dec 19, 2022 · Frances Fisher isn’t sure there’s anything left to say about Titanic, and who can blame her? Few cultural touchstones have been as widely documented and debated as James Cameron’s 1997 voyage...
Dec 19, 2022 · After our nearly hour-long conversation, he accompanied his Titanic co-star Frances Fisher to the Los Angeles premiere of Avatar 2: The Way of Water, also directed by their pal James Cameron....
Dec 12, 2017 · Because according to Frances Fisher, you should really stop hating on Ruth, Rose's mom from Titanic. "People would come up to me and scream about how much they hated my character," Fisher says of...
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- Titanic Sets Sail Amid Predictions of Disaster
- Titanic Soars
- Campaigning For A Giant
- Lots of Noms, But No Leo?!
- Oscar Night Arrives
- Titanic Begins Dominating
- Non-Titanic Winners Take The Stage
- Cameron Crowns Himself “King”
- Titanic Gets The Last Laugh
- The Telecast’s Ratings Come in
After hitmaker James Cameron pitched News Corp. president and COO Peter Chernin “Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic,” the exec authorized his company’s subsidiary 20th Century Fox to make Titanicfor $110 million, a sizable but not unprecedented budget. But after production got underway, it quickly became apparent that the film was going to cost consid...
CAMERON We didn’t have a world premiere in Los Angeles, we premiered in Tokyo. I literally said, “I don’t care where as long as it’s not L.A. Any place that’s got a credible film festival, let’s do it there.” Paramount was against it, but Fox hauled off and did it anyway because they had internationalrights. Then it was time to bring the film to Ho...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences then comprised 5,371 voting members, about half its current membership. CYNTHIA SWARTZ (MIRAMAX SENIOR VP SPECIAL PROJECTS)There weren’t that many awards consultants in those days. Campaigns were run by whatever marketing or PR person was at a studio. TERRY PRESS (DREAMWORKS MARKETING CHIEF)It was not...
On Feb. 10, 1998, Titaniclanded 14 Oscar nominations, equaling the record that had been held for 37 years by All About Eve. And unlike All About Eve‘s noms, Titanic‘s came in 14 different categories. CAMERON We were on a flight back from Europe, it was midmorning, and the pilot came back and told us that we got all these nominations. I said, “Did y...
The ceremony took place at the Shrine Auditorium on March 23, 1998. DiCaprio did not attend. But the nominees and many other notables — including civil rights icon Rosa Parks, a guest of Spike Lee, whose 4 Little Girlswas nominated for best documentary feature — made their way down the red carpet. Titanic, at that time, had been atop the box office...
The film’s first nine wins came for art direction, cinematography, costume design, film editing, original dramatic score, original song, sound, sound effects editing and visual effects. CAMERON When they called my name for the first time, which was for editing, I’m like, “Oh, shit. I’ve got to get up in front of whatever, a billion people, and I’m ...
Basinger won best supporting actress for L.A. Confidential. BASINGER I kept saying, “The lady from Titanic [Gloria Stuart, whose film career had begun in the 1930s and who was then, at 87, the oldest Oscar nominee ever], that lady’s going to win it. It’s just the way it is.” She had seniority! In fact, I looked over there when they called my name a...
Warren Beatty presented the best director Oscar to Cameron, who closed his acceptance speech by declaring, “Mom, Dad, there’s no way that I can express to you what I’m feeling right now — my heart is full to bursting — except to say, ‘I’m the king of the world!’ ” Not since Sally Field declared, “You like me!” did an Oscar acceptance speech trigger...
The telecast was running long — Russell Carpenter, accepting the best cinematography Oscar for Titanic, said, “We’re running so late, this is becoming kind of a Depends moment for me” — and it ended up being the longest show to date, at three hours and 46 minutes. To close the ceremony, Sean Connery announced that the best picture winner was Titani...
The telecast’s ratings were massive: It averaged 57.25 viewers throughout, up 29 percent from the year before, and crushing the previous record of 48.28 million from 1995, the year of Forrest Gump. CRYSTALWhen they said it was the highest of all time, I thought, “Well, great, and maybe we can break it next year.” It wasn’t like it was a fantastic f...
Dec 26, 2022 · Did Frances Fisher Know Titanic Would Be Successful? Frances Fisher has no clue just how big Titanic would be when she was auditioning for director James Cameron. During her interview with Vulture, she claimed that there was simply no way of knowing that the film would become as big as it did, regardless of the fact that it was a master ...
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Dec 20, 2022 · Actress Frances Fisher Reveals 'Nobody Could Breathe Correctly' on 'Titanic' Set Due to the Corsets. "The corset would dig into your body, and you couldn't lean back — the hat was so big ...
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Jan 8, 2017 · With Frances Fisher, Edward Asner, Robert Michael, Alex Paige Fream. A docudrama that dives into the political and economic factors of 1912 that lead to the TITANIC disaster and appalling loss of life.
