The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale, featuring Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani, Kelli Garner, Matt Ross, Willem Dafoe, Alan Alda and Edward Herrmann.
The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning five, including one for actress Cate Blanchett.
Plot[]
It is the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), drawn largely upon numerous sources including a biography by Charles Higham. The film 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.
Cast[]
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes
- Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn
- John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich
- Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner
- Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe
- Alan Alda as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
- Ian Holm as Professor
- Danny Huston as Jack Frye
- Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow
- Jude Law as Errol Flynn
- Willem Dafoe as Roland Sweet
- Adam Scott as Johnny Meyer
- Matt Ross as Glenn Odekirk
- Kevin O'Rourke as Spencer Tracy
- Kelli Garner as Faith Domergue
- Frances Conroy as Katharine Houghton
- Brent Spiner as Robert E. Gross
- Stanley DeSantis as Louis B. Mayer
- Edward Herrmann as Joseph Breen
- J. C. MacKenzie as Ludlow Ogden Smith
- Josie Maran as Thelma the Cigarette Girl
- Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Hepburn