Tuesday • March 24, 1998
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'itanic ties record by winning 11 Oscars in 4-hour ceremony
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in 80S ANGELES (AP) — Titanic won a
L'eoiij-d-tying 11 Oscars on Monday night,
[utnodding best picture, director and song,
pis n ; Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt took
nen acting honors as the misanthropic
eclat ;r and the waitress who softens his
I pros t in As Good As It Gets.
s. ’m the king of the world!” crowed 77-
|ios!oP director James Cameron, quoting a
Tom the movie’s hero, as he accepted
Ibea^ize at the 70th annual Academy
I the’ "ds.
, you ne $700 million disaster epic and all-
l s p or box-office champion tied the number
arn; /ards won by Ben-Hur in 1959, but lost
nice to win a record 12 Oscars when it
ujjj jhort in three categories: Hunt beat
Winslet, Kim Basinger took support-
ictress for LA. Confidential over Glo-
tuart, and Men in Black claimed the
eup prize.
anleron thanked his cast and crew,
ig, “You guys gave me pure gold every
and I share this gold with you ...
intybody else that I was going to thank
Ldbr got an Oscar or a nomination, so
’re covered.”
i a dramatic counterpoint to the
ling’s festivities, Cameron reminded
audience that the movie was based
real I ragedy and asked for a moment
lent e. Then he returned to a celebra-
mood.
7ou really made this a night to re-
abei in every way. Now let’s party till
dawn,” he said.
The film so dominated the evening
that no other film won more than two
awards. Three managed that many: As
Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting and
L.A. Confidential.
Nicholson joins an elite group of only
four performers to own three or more Os
cars. His others are as best actor for One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975 and
supporting actor in Terms of Endearment
in 1983. Katharine Hepburn won four
Academy Awards, and Ingrid Bergman and
Walter Brennan each won three.
“I’m honored to be on any list with you,
Bobby, Dusty, and you and your father Mr.
Damon, and my old bike pal, Fonda,”
Nicholson said, making the umpteenth
joke of the night about fellow nominee
Matt Damon’s age and alluding to his long-
ago co-starring role in Easy Rider.
Nicholson joked about suffering from
doubts, given the virtual sweep by Titanic:
“I had a sinking feeling all night, right up
to here.”
Hunt, the only American competing
against four British actresses in her cate
gory, thanked her director, who was not
even nominated.
“I’m here for one reason and that’s Jim
Brooks, one single reason, and that’s the
only reason really,” Hunt said.
Robin Williams won the supporting ac
tor award as the bereaved psychology pro
fessor who counsels a troubled young ge
nius in Good Will Hunting.’
“Ah, man, this might be the one time
I’m speechless,” said Williams, known for
his stream-of-consciousness humor.
He then managed to thank many, many
people, including his young co-stars Da
mon and Ben Affleck, quipping: “I still
want to see some ID.”
Affleck and Damon won the best origi
nal screenplay Oscar, and Brian Helgeland
and Curtis Hanson won the adapted
screenplay award for L.A. Confidential.
Basinger, the Veronica Lake look-
alike/call girl in L.A. Confidential, beat out
Titanic’s Stuart, who was a sentimental fa
vorite after coming out of retirement at age
87 to play a centenarian survivor of the
shipwreck.
“If anyone has a dream out there, I’m
living proof that it can come true,”
Basinger told the Shrine Auditorium au
dience.
Titanic went into the night with a
record-tying 14 nominations. Besides win
ning for best picture, direction and song—
“My Heart Will Go On” — the film won for
cinematography, art direction, film editing,
costume design, sound, sound editing,
original dramatic score and visual effects.
Titanic’s 14 nominations tied the record
set by \950’s All About Eve.
The three-hour, 14-minute romance set
on the doomed luxury liner has already
smashed box office records, overtaking
Jurassic Park as the biggest moneymaker
in movie history (adjusted for inflation),
with more than $1.1 billion. It has also
been No. 1 at the U.S. box office for an un
precedented 14 weekends in a row.
The Full Monty, a comedy about laid-
off British factory workers who form a
male stripper act, won the Oscar for orig
inal musical or comedy score.
Billy Crystal had the duty of keeping
the show on course, kicking things off
with a filmed sketch that put him in
scenes of the best-picture nominees,
much as he did last year.
It started with spit in the face from “Ti
tanic’s” Leonardo DiCaprio. “What, give
up show business?” Crystal deadpanned.
This year’s Oscar pageant was a cele
bration of comebacks, with a batch of
nominees who had been largely forgot
ten, including Peter Fonda, Julie Christie,
Robert Forster as well as Burt Reynolds
and Stuart.
The nostalgia theme extended to the
ceremony’s invitation list. The Academy
invited every living winner of the acting
awards and introduced each one on the
stage. Those introductions pushed the
show to three hours and 45 minutes,
about a half-hour more than scheduled.
The worldwide TV audience was pro
jected at 1 billion. Ratings were expected
to be up over last year’s disappointing
numbers, largely because of the monster
draw of Titanic, which has made nearly
$500 million in North America.
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Best picture
Titanic
Best actor
Jack Nicholson,
As Good as it Gets
Best actress
Helen Hunt,
As Good as it Gets
Best supporting actor
Robin Williams,
Good Will Hunting
Best supporting actress
Kim Basinger,
L.A. Confidential
Best director
James Cameron,
Titanic
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