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Rose DeWitt Bukater
Titanic character
Created byJames Cameron
Portrayed byKate Winslet
Gloria Stuart
In-universe information
AliasRose Dawson Calvert
FamilyRuth DeWitt Bukater (mother)
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Calvert (granddaughter)
Significant othersCal Hockley
Jack Dawson

Rose DeWitt Bukater (played by Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart) is a fictional character from the 1997 epic romantic disaster film, Titanic.

Character Summary

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In 1996, 100-year-old Rose Dawson Calvert (Stuart) sees a television report about a discovery from the wreckage of the Titanic. When she sees the items recovered, including a nude drawing of a young woman, she contacts the head of the exhibition, Brock Lovett Bill Paxton and reveals herself as the woman in the drawing. She, alongside her granddaughter Lizzy (Suzy Amis), board the exhibition ship, where for the first time in eighty-four years, she recounts her time onboard the Titanic.

In 1912, 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet) boards the Titanic in Southhampton, with her widowed mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher and older fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), who she is being made to marry to keep her family's high status, after her father's death left them riddled with debt.

Feeling trapped in a loveless relationship, she contemplates suicide. She hangs off the stern of the ship, but is talked down by Jack Dawson, a homeless artist. After she slips while climbing back, he saves her. For his heroism he joins her and her family for a meal in the first class lounge.

They develop a friendship, and Jack confesses feelings to her. Though resistant at first, she too realises she has feelings for Jack.

Rose asks Jack to come back to her stateroom, and the draw her nude, only wearing the necklace given to her by Cal. After evading Cal's valet, they have sex in a car in the cargo hold. They then go up to the deck and witness the ship collide with an iceberg. After Cal arranges for Jack to be arrested, Rose searches throughout the sinking ship for him. After she frees him, they make their way back up to the deck, and they cling to the railing as the ship splits in two and sinks. Jack helps Rose get on to a piece of floating furniture, though as they wait for help to arrive, Jack dies from hyperthermia. Rose weakly blows on a whistle, alerting a returning lifeboat. She is given refuge onboard the RMS Carpathia, where she gives her name as "Rose Dawson".

Since 1912, Rose had since married a man by the name of Calvert, and had children and grandchildren with him. Alone at night, she drops the necklace, which Lovett had been looking for in the middle of the ocean. Later, as she is seemingly asleep in bed, photographs of her live, show adventure and freedom, inspired by Jack. Aboard the pristine and undamaged Titanic, a young Rose reunites with Jack at the Grand Staircase, applauded by the passengers and crew who died in the sinking.

Casting

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Multiple actresses, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Gabrielle Anwar, and Reese Witherspoon, turned down the role after which Winslet began to heavily campaign for the role. She sent him regular notes from England, leading to Cameron inviting her to audition.[1][2][3] On casting the older version of Rose, casting director Mali Finn set out to find retired actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood.[4] As Stuart was in her eighties, compared to Rose being over 100, she had to be made up to look older.[5]

Accolades

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Both Winslet and Stuart received nominations for the Academy Awards, the first instance of two actors receiving nominations for playing the same character in the same film. At 87, Stuart became the oldest competitive Oscar nominee.[6]

Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref
Academy Awards Best Actress Kate Winslet Nominated [7]
Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Actress – Drama Kate Winslet Nominated [8]
Empire Awards Best British Actress Won [9]
European Film Awards Achievement in World Cinema Award Nominated [10]
Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress Won
Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated [11]
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Gloria Stuart Nominated
Goldene Kamera Best International Actress Kate Winslet Won [12]
Jupiter Award Best International Actress Won [13]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart 2nd place [14]
MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Kate Winslet Nominated [15]
Best On-Screen Duo Kate Winslet (shared with Leonardo DiCaprio) Nominated
Best Kiss Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Actress Kate Winslet Nominated [16]
Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart Won
Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture Kate Winslet Nominated [17]
Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart Won [18]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Kate Winslet Nominated [19]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Gloria Stuart Won
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Gloria Stuart & Kate Winslet (shared with Suzy Amis, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frances Fisher, Bernard Fox, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, Bill Paxton, David Warner & Billy Zane) Nominated

References

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  15. ^ Katz, Richard. "MTV-watchers pick their pix". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
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  17. ^ "Satellite Awards 1998". Archived from the original on 7 March 2021.
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  19. ^ "The 4th Screen Actors Guild Awards". Archived from the original on 11 May 2018.