The Aviator Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

"The Aviator" tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s though the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircraft he designed and created. A daredevil pilot, the most famous flyer since Charles Lindbergh, Hughes became a major force in commercial aviation. He was a mythic figure in the America of his day, imbued with an aura of excitement, glamour and mystery. "The Aviator" looks at Hughes' emotional life, and his love affairs with two Hollywood legends, elegant, Yankee-bred screen star Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, and the sensual and luminous screen beauty of the 1940s, Ava Gardner. It also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical disabilities and phobias, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that leads him ultimately to isolate himself from his associates and withdraw from the world.

Action Adventure Biography Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Aviator.

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  The Wolf of Wall Street, The Battle of Baktan Cross

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  Alec Baldwin

  Clear Cut, Crescent City

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  Kate Beckinsale

  Canary Black, The Gentlemen

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  Cate Blanchett

  Black Bag, Cinderella

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  Kelli Garner

  G-Force, Walden

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  Danny Hughes

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  Matt Ross

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  Adam Scott

  Madame Web, Leap Year

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  Gwen Stefani

  Piece by Piece, Trolls World Tour

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  Nellie Sciutto

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  Willem Dafoe

  The Legend Of Ochi, Nosferatu

Crew Behind the Film

The The Aviator behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Martin Scorsese last directed Killers of the Flower Moon and Rolling Thunder. The film's writer John Logan last wrote They/Them and Genius.

Director

Martin Scorsese

Screenwriter

John Logan

Producers

Charles Evans Jr
Graham King
Michael Mann

Production Details

What we know about the The Aviator movie production.

Production Updates for The Aviator

Dec 2004

Completed

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