{"id":116350,"date":"2016-03-23T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116350\/on-this-day-in-history-titanic-wins-11-oscars\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:54:50","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-titanic-wins-11-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/23\/on-this-day-in-history-titanic-wins-11-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Titanic wins 11 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy Award for Best Director for <em>Titanic<\/em> on the night of March 23, 1998.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xJp7Wd6Af2A' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The film was a dominating force at the Oscars that year with a record for most Oscar nominations with 14\u2014joining 1950\u2019s\u00a0<em>All About Eve<\/em>.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Titanic <\/em>starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet and ended up sweeping 11 categories including Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<em>Aliens<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Abyss<\/em>\u00a0and the first two\u00a0<em>Terminator\u00a0<\/em>movies under his belt, Cameron had already proved himself a master of the action-packed science-fiction blockbuster genre but solidified his influence on film and popular culture in 1998 with Titanic.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Titanic&#8217;s\u00a0film crew constructed a 775-foot (90 percent scale) replica of the RMS <i>Titanic<\/i> and put it in a tank containing 64\u00a0million litres\u00a0of water.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zCy5WQ9S4c0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f740a3217fd088142a7640806ddf1653'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1998, James Cameron accepted the 11th Oscar Award for blockbuster Titanic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":116351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10074,9666,9057,3305,10311,10075,10312,5598,9951,10313],"class_list":["post-116350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-academy-awards","tag-america","tag-film","tag-history","tag-james-cameron","tag-kate-winslet","tag-leonardo-di-caprio","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-titanic"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Academy Awards","America","film","history","James Cameron","Kate Winslet","Leonardo Di Caprio","movies","Oscars","Titanic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}