The James Cameron romance-disaster film Titanic is a fictionalized historical drama about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It follows two star-crossed lovers as they unwittingly set sail straight into an iceberg. **Spoiler Alert** The boat sinks and one of them dies. It would remain the most expensive film ever made until the overblown Peter Jackson remake of King Kong was released in 2005. It was also the highest-grossing film of all time until James Cameron decided to make a futuristic version with Avatar in which the ship is a environmentally-sensitive planet and the lovers are tall, blue cat-aliens.

Titanic was nominated for 14 Oscars, a feat that had not been achieved since All About Eve swept the awards in 1950. It went on to win 11 of those categories.

Fans of the film's lead actor, Leonardo diCaprio, will note that this was one of many snubs on his road to finally winning an Oscar; not only did he fail to receive a nomination, but Best Actor that year was a so-so Jack Nicholson performance in the only mildly-entertaining rom-com As Good As It Gets. Titanic's lead actress, Kate Winslet, did earn herself a nomination from the Academy for her portrayal of Rose "Doesn't Know How To Share a Door" Dawson, but failed to win her category.

The biggest insult of the evening was that Kate Winslet's mother in the film was nominated for an Oscar for barely a few lines of a monologue that neither stood the test of time nor took more acting chops than a background character in an episode of The O.C.

It is important to note that everyone has a favorite scene in this lush portrayal of early 19th century cruise ship travel. Mine is the absolutely classic scene where the couple decides to climb a few stories down a slippery below-deck boat ladder and run amok through the boiler room while the working poor shovel coal into enormous furnaces.

The head stoker yells at them gruffly, "What are you two doing in the boiler room?!". Yeah James Cameron, what were they doing in the boiler room?