When James Cameron won for Best Director at the 1997 Academy Awards, he was responsible for what many consider to be one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of the ceremony. Triumphant and happy, he stormed up to the tent and proclaimed himself king of the world. An imitation of what Leonardo DiCaprio said when he stood at the front of the bow of the Titanic and something Cameron addresses in a interview which was recently completed with Yahoo Entertainment.
“What I learned is, you don’t quote your own movie if you win…Because it’s cringeworthy. It makes the assumption that you didn’t win by a narrow margin but that every single person sitting in the audience on that night at the Kodak Theater saw and loved Titanic. We’ll never know how much we won by, but it might not have been a landslide at all. I took flack for all 25 years after that, but you know, you live and you learn .”
In total, Titanic won 11 statuettes that night so Cameron and his entourage had every reason to be happy. Plus we got something to laugh about, which is never a bad thing.
What do you think of Cameron’s infamous Titanic speech?
