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At $200 million, the most expensive movie production.
Titanic is the commercial movie filmed at the greatest depth.
The 800-foot model of the Titanic is the largest scale model. It was built to 90% scale.
The 17.5 million gallon water tank built to hold the ship's replica is the largest water tank built for a movie production.
The top grossing first run domestic movie of all time and the top grossing movie of all-time worldwide. See the domestic and worldwide totals here.
At 15 weeks, it now holds the record for consecutive weeks at #1.
At 24 weeks, it now holds the record for consecutive weeks in the top 10.
At 26 weeks, it now holds the record for consecutive and non-consecutive weeks
in the top 10.Best Christmas Day gross: $9,178,529
Best Valentine's Day gross: $13,048,711
Only film to gross more than $25 million for 7 consecutive weeks
Only film to gross more than $20 million weekly for 10 weeks
Only film to gross over $1 million for 101 consecutive days
First film to earn $1 billion dollars worldwide (accomplished between 12/19/97 and 3/6/98).
Fastest film to gross $250 million (36 days) & $300 million (44 days), beating Jurassic Park
Only film to gross $400 million in its initial release
Top-grossing US release in China
All-time top-grossing movie in over 50 countries, including:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, The United
Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom & the United States.
Titanic ranks as the top-grossing title in history in all box office markets (North America and 58 territories abroad).
Box office record dates:
2/22/98 (Sunday) - passed $400 million domestic gross
2/24/98 (Tuesday) - passed Jurassic Park for top worldwide gross
3/3/98 (Tuesday) - surpassed $1 billion worldwide gross
3/14/98 (Saturday) - passed Star Wars for top domestic gross
3/26/98 (Thursday) - passed $500 million domestic gross
4/25/98 (Saturday) - surpassed $1 billion foreign box office gross
8/27/98 (Thursday) - surpassed $600 million domestic gross
At $50 million, the most expensive marketing campaign for a home video release.
With $20 million units sold, it broke the record for sales of a live action video.
Great Britain - set a video sales record (2.5 million) with pre-sales 2 months before the actual release.
Great Britain - with $1.8 million sold in the first week of release, the fastest selling video ever.
Received 14 nominations, tying with "All About Eve" (1950) for most nominations.
Won 11 awards, tying with "Ben Hur" (1959) for most Oscar wins.
First time in Oscar history that two performers have been nominated for playing the same character in the same film (Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet as "Rose.")
At 87, Gloria Stuart becomes the oldest performer ever nominated.
At 22, Kate Winslet becomes the youngest performer ever to be nominated for two academy awards (also nominated for 1995's Sense and Sensibility).
First movie since "The Sound of Music" to win best-picture without its screenplay being nominated.
James Cameron tied for most Oscar wins in one year (3).
Most nominations for a single movie: 8
#1 for 16 weeks (BILLBOARD CHARTS), the most consecutive weeks as the #1 soundtrack album
Best selling instrumental movie score of all time
Best selling movie soundtrack of all time
First movie soundtrack to hit #1 since 1982's Chariots of Fire
Fastest selling soundtrack of all time
"My Heart Will Go On" is the first song to be performed at both the Grammy Awards and the Academy Awards in the same year.
More than $500,000 units sold for 6 consecutive weeks (domestic figures)
The #1 album of 1998 with 9.2 million in sales - twice as many as the #1 album of 1997 (1998 totals for albums from 12/6/97-11/28/98)
"My Heart Will Go On" was the highest ranked soundtrack single of 1998 and was #13 overall.
"My Heart Will Go On" is the only English-speaking single to ever top the Latin charts.
The second soundtrack, Back to Titanic, became the highest ranked soundtrack sequel album when it hit #2.
Back to Titanic is the most successful second soundtrack of all-time.
Back to Titanic was the #1 classical crossover album of 1998."James Cameron's Titanic": The first making-of-a-movie tie-in book to hit Number 1 on The New York Times best-seller list. For 14 weeks, it held the Number 1 position on the best-seller list for non-fiction paperbacks.
** all records are as of the date they were achieved and will not reflect subsequent record holders
