James Cameron’s Titanic received 11 Academy Awards together with Best Picture on the 1998 Academy Awards and Cameron jumped up on stage to provide his speech, saying: “There is no way that I can express to you what I’m feeling right now. My heart is full to bursting, except to say, ‘I’m the king of the world.'”
Well, Cameron is wanting again at his speech and it’s now one thing he regrets and calls “cringeworthy.” While discussing this with CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, he defined:
“What I learned is you don’t quote your own movie to the Academy if you win, because it’s cringeworthy. It makes the assumption that you didn’t win by a narrow margin, but that every single person sitting in the audience on that night at the Kodak Theatre saw and loved Titanic. And we’ll never know how much we won by, but it might not have been a landslide at all.”
Cameron went on to share that he “took flack for 25 years” for his feedback. He additionally added: “You do have to be careful what you say in your acceptance speech, me and Sally Field, we have a little self-help group together on this.”
Yeah, it was a tacky second, however you already know what? He had simply received an Oscar for Best Picture! He was excited and out of all of the issues he might have mentioned in that second, quoting his personal movie with “I’m the king of the world!” wasn’t the worst factor he might have mentioned. The speech was truly fairly boring till that second.
As for the reference he makes relating to Sally Field, she was criticized for her Places within the Heart speech in 1985 when she mentioned in her speech, “I can’t deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me.”
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