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Although everybody knows how the movie must end, director James Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic through the eyes of Rose (Kate Winslet), who tells about her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). The two run the events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall...
WILL WINJames Cameron. I'm not going to take space from the other categories trying to explain why. Sure his lavish spending and tyrannical nature might turn off some voters. But, to paraphrase Cole Porter, if not Cameron...
SHOULD WINCameron's a pro and deserved one of these for Aliens. But this year, my vote's for Atom Egoyan, who communicated in The Sweet Hereafter an entire town's experience of a single event, exerting a rigorous, wide-ranging psychological acuity for which Cameron didn't even...
...question how we would have acted if in the same position as the characters. They cause us to remember lines that are especially witty or poignant. And sometimes, they add to our understanding of the subject matter they address. After leaving Titanic, my only thought was how Cameron made a computer-generated image look so much like a real iceberg...
When the Academy announces this year's winners, I hope Cameron's epic wins its fair share of awards in cinematography and costume. The film clearly excelled in those areas. But it was not the year's best picture, and the Academy would strike a blow to imaginative filmmakers everywhere by honoring it as such...