seventeen Oscars

11 Oscars

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won eleven awards, including Best Picture, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside Ben-Hur and Titanic).

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The most successful figure to date in the history of the Academy Awards is Katharine Hepburn, who won four Oscars throughout her acting career.

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Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t a vegan. He’s been extremely cryptic and secretive with his diet and eating habits, leading many people to believe that Leo lives by a “Do as I say, not as I do policy” and continues to eat meat although he preaches the wonders of veganism.

Jack Dawson (born 1892-1912) is the deuteragonist in Titanic and the love interest of Rose DeWitt Bukater. He dies at the end of the film from hypothermia, protecting Rose by having her float on a doorframe while he stays in the water; he was only twenty years old.

Despite Second Officer Charles Lightoller’s insistence that Jack Phillips’s body was recovered and brought onto the Carpathia, it is commonly accepted by the overwhelming majority of people that Jack Phillip’s body was thrown overboard upon death, as his body, if recovered, was never identified.

The last living survivor of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, has died at the age of 97 in Southampton after catching pneumonia. As a two-month-old baby, Dean was the youngest passenger on board the giant liner when it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.

While Jack and Rose were entirely fictional (though there was a real-life woman who served as inspiration for the older version of Rose), Cameron included some real-life characters in Titanic, most notably Molly Brown (played by Kathy Bates), but there’s one who has a fascinating and bizarre story and was only on …

After several trips back to the drawing board, it turns out that raising the Titanic would be about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the doomed vessel. After a century on the ocean floor, Titanic is apparently in such bad shape it couldn’t withstand such an endeavor for a variety of reasons.

What happened to the bodies? 125 of the bodies were buried at sea, due either to their severe damage, advanced decomposition, or a simple lack of resources (lack of enough embalming fluid). 209 other bodies were transported for burial in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

For the Titanic, the oxygen factor means scavengers long ago feasted on nearby corpses. But — in theory, at least — bodies in undamaged areas of the hull would be less vulnerable if sealed off from currents and oxygen.