The Aviator

2004 170 min Drama

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 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.

IMDb 7.5 RT 86 Metacritic 77

budget $110,000,000 earnings $213,719,942 return 1.9x

director Martin Scorsese

writer John Logan

cast