Titanic is a motion picture.
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed , written , co-produced , and co-edited by James Cameron . The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox . Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards , it tied All About Eve ( 1950 ) for the most Oscar nominations , and won eleven , including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director , tying Ben Hur ( 1959 ) for the most Oscars won by a single film .