The Aviator
(2004)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Academy Award for Best Production Design (Dante Ferretti)
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett)Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Academy Award for Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Academy Award for Best Picture (Michael Mann, Graham King)
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Alan Alda)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (John Logan)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan, produced by Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, and Charles Evans, Jr., and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast features Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law as Errol Flynn, Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, Willem Dafoe, Alan Alda, and Edward Herrmann. The film depicts the true story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, who later became the world's wealthiest man, drawing upon numerous sources including a biography by Charles Higham. The picture centers on Hughes' life from the late 1920s to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder exacerbated by airplane crashes.