Go back in time 10 years...  Who is Leonardo DiCaprio? Oh just some teen guy. Kate Winslet? Oh yeah, "Heavenly Creatures". Billy Who? (I know, "The Phantom", but still...). So yeah, a bunch of unknowns (with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber, and a few others, not a lot, Bill Paxton was barely in it, Gloria Stuart too, but this doesn't detract from their performances at all) I doubt the Academy would have picked it based on its cast. If they did/do choose their movies that way, then "L.A. Confidential" would've won. "Pulp Fiction" would've won.

So yeah...

Cheddar J. Cheese wrote:   I highly doubt any of you 10 years ago had anything bad to say about it, it's only now that it's "cool" to b***h and moan about it that you do.

stanton heck wrote:  However almost everyone at that moment in time had TITANIC FEVER

Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers 10 years back.

It also did not have a nomination for best screenplay!  That last timw a movie won Best Picture without having its screenplay
nominated was "The Sound of Music"