Celine Dion - Titanic (1997) - My Heart Will Go On Celine sings the "love theme" from the 1997 epic film "Titanic," winner of 11 Academy Awards. The RMS Titanic, the largest and most luxurious passenger ship of it's time, sank 100 year ago on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic on it's maiden voyage. Of its 2223 passengers over 1500 perished, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Cameron's inspiration for the film was predicated on his fascination with shipwrecks; he wanted to convey the emotional message of the tragedy, and felt that a love story interspersed with the human loss would be ess! ential to achieving this. Production on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. A reconstruction of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generated imagery were also used to recreate the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, and, at the time
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