Titanic won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1998 ceremony.
Directed by James Cameron, Titanic received the Best Picture Oscar for 1997 films at the 70th Academy Awards. The ceremony took place on March 23, 1998, and producers Cameron, Jon Landau, and Rae Sanchini accepted the award on behalf of the production.
The film tied the record for the most Academy Awards won by a single film at that time, receiving 11 Oscars in total. Its awards included Best Director for Cameron, Best Original Song for “My Heart Will Go On,” and several technical categories.
A frequent source of confusion is the ceremony year. Titanic was released in 1997, but its Oscars were presented in 1998. Avatar, another Cameron-directed film, was nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 ceremony but did not win; The Hurt Locker won that award.