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The Aviator
Directed by Martin Scorsese
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. From TMDB
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The Aviator is a 2004 drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale.
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60 of 165 · most liked firstThis is why the dumb Tentpole game doesn't really work. "Oh Adam Scott and Sean Connery couldn't be a historical aviation movie" They were in THE AVIATOR and LAST CRUSADE! Those are like two of the only three movies that have historical aviation bits and both were huge hits!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator (2004) 🎬💙 Directed by Martin Scorsese
neutral · AI labelView post →Anne Coates’ work as an editor was so legendary, Martin Scorsese put her in THE AVIATOR, where she plays a harassed editor, briefly seen going through a mountain of film (Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels), wearing a teal-green/silver dress and long gloves.
neutral · AI labelView post →KIRK GOLDSBERRY: I'll be honest with you, Zach Lowe. This reputation that Martin Scorsese, the director of Kundun and also The Age of Innocence, is mainly a mob movie guy. Frankly, it's silly, and I'm sure you agree. ZACH LOWE: The Aviator... What makes someone an aviator? Isn't that just a pilot?
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote about THE AVIATOR, a grievously under-seen Scorsese picture about flight, obsession, money, class, and fear. Beautiful film. www.patreon.com/posts/100205...
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE AVIATOR (2004). Director: Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett. Rewatching some Scorcese, chronicling early years of Howard Hughes. Loved women, planes, movies, & collecting urine in jars. 11 Oscar nods, 5 wins including Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2004, when I was 16 and at peak shitty teenager, I panicked after I was caught coming home late and told my mom I had went to go see The Aviator. Thinking, "long movie." She asked, "haven't you already seen that twice?" I had never seen it. I said "Yes. Planes. Time just uh, well you know."
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE AVIATOR boxd.it/bwSJVb More prone to spectacle than in-depth character analysis, Scorsese delivers big set pieces & bigger performances. Leo is mass of OCD tics & delusions of grandeur. Frantic look at movie making collides with downbeat tale of aviation politics. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky 7/17. Plane crash in a movie. The Aviator (2004)
neutral · AI labelView post →(The Aviator is a very good movie about someone named Howard Hughes but lightly skips over some of the more "I had my girlfriends followed by detectives" stuff and that very widely belived story that when Ava Gardner found out he bugged her apartment she *nearly killed him*
neutral · AI labelView post →I just recently saw The Aviator, and while it was a pretty good film, I had some issues with the attempt to squeeze Hughes into a heroic mold. #NoirAlley #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004). A fantastic film. The scene where Kate takes Howard to her home in Connecticut is epic. “We don't care about money here," Mrs. Hepburn, to which Howard Hughes replies, "That's because you have it." #TCMParty #Bringingupbaby
positive · AI labelView post →For many, their introduction to the Hughes XF-11 came through its recreation in Martin Scorcese's 2004 film 'The Aviator'. With the link below, we turn to FLYING Magazine's Jason McDowell for a more complete and authoritative account of this fascinating, star-crossed aircraft. (📸 US Air Force) | 🛩️ ⚔️
neutral · AI labelView post →"I rarely watch any of my films, but if I’m being honest, there’s one that I have watched more than others. It’s The Aviator." Leonardo DiCaprio covers Esquire tomandlorenzo.com/2025/08/one-...
neutral · AI labelView post →. The beautiful 1992 restoration of 𝑪𝑨𝑼𝑮𝑯𝑻 (1949) Was done at UCLA Film & Television Archives. It was financed by Martin Scorsese, who would later direct The Aviator (2004) - which was also loosely based on Howard Hughes. #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #ValentinesNoir 🖤 #Caught 🫀 .
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess the closest thing to that is the part of The Aviator about the making of Hell's Angels, another big-budget silent movie whose production got so out of control and ran for so long that it needed to be expensively converted into a sound movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator (2004). Knew very little about Howard Hughes (polymath) until I watched this. Definitely going to find out more. Didn't realise this was a Scorsese film when it came out either. Appearance by Alan Alda too, who I love, even when he plays a dodgy senator #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Cate Blanchett in The Aviator (a film no one thinks about or likes) winning the Oscar over Virginia Madsen for Sideways is a crime the gays haven't fully acknowledged
negative · AI labelView post →King of Comedy and Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead and the Aviator and Silence and Shutter Island and After Hours and Goodfellas - basically the same movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator is on. It's really a kind of masterpiece of a movie if you want to see a shorthand of the corruption of early American capitalism
positive · AI labelView post →Ennis House was the inspiration for the movie studio HQ interiors in the current Apple+ series "The Studio" Snowden House was used in The Aviator as the home of Ava Gardner
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching John C. Reilly improve every movie he's in is really an education. Just watched him again, after a number of years, in The Aviator. Brilliantly understated performance!
positive · AI labelView post →Underrated Scorsese #Film #Cinema #TheAviator #Scorsese #NeoNoir #FilmSky 📽️ 🛫 🎬
positive · AI labelView post →A silly hill I shall die upon: THE AVIATOR is Martin Scorsese's most underrated film. DiCaprio is a finely unhinged Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett is peerless as Katharine Hepburn. The photography is striking and makes a very strategic and interesting use of color.
positive · AI labelView post →Throughout his career, film composer Howard Shore #BOTD has collaborated regularly with two directors: Martin Scorcese and David Cronenburg. His credits for them include THE FLY (1986), NAKED LUNCH (1991), THE DEPARTED (2006), and THE AVIATOR (2004) 3/ #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Last four friday. One of these is not like the others. (The Aviator is not a five star movie)
negative · AI labelView post →Well I’m here! I’m Ben Friedman, a film critic and host of a new podcast entitled Film School Dropout! On today’s episode, @zakiscorner.bsky.social joins me to discuss THE AVIATOR, a Howard Hughes biopic directed by Martin Scorsese! Check it out below! youtu.be/AXY1gMHz2fE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator is a perfectly fine, if kinda flawed, film, but I think if I had to give my biggest criticism...Howard Hughes wasn't weird enough.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge August 19 - movie about aviation The Aviator (2004) #filmsky #moviesky ...a biopic exploring the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s...
neutral · AI labelView post →Malcolm X (1992) The Aviator (2004) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Spencer (2021) Chocolat (2016) *The film about Raphael Padilla, the famous Black circus performer during the Belle Epoque, NOT the Johnny Depp thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Aviator(2004) this evening. Loved Brent's cameo in this one. I do remember seeing this one at the cinema when it came out. Good movie, long one at nearly 3hrs. Brent looking good in 1930's attire🔥
positive · AI labelView post →What is Scorsese's most underrated film and why is it either THE AVIATOR or SILENCE? I'm not kidding. I would swiftly put both of those in his top ten.
neutral · AI labelView post →gddfjhdsjk artwork inspired by the really quite incredible visuals of the video S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Remembers The End of the World by timmm(link in ALT) and this one screenshot of the film The Aviator... #digitalart #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV has some amazing bundles on sale right now. Like this 6-movie Scorsese bundle for $12.99. The Departed, After Hours, The Aviator, Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, Mean Streets, AND Goodfellas.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator is a vastly underrated movie. It's my Shawshank Redemption -- whenever I see it go by, I'll sit down and watch it.
positive · AI labelView post →The Aviator is a movie about the power of Horny to silence OCD
neutral · AI labelView post →There is no way I will ever watch that film. Exposing myself to such sociopaths is hazardous to my well-being. Watching "The Aviator" led me to have sympathetic ticks for a few hours.
negative · AI labelView post →We’re gonna get that scene from the Aviator where Leo is in the movie theater with super long nails but it’s going to be Musk in a dark room trying to get Grok to make Helen of Troy look like exactly his mother when he was 12.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 2000s. Leonardo DiCaprio, Howard Hughes, "The Aviator" (directed by Martin Scorsese). #movies #films #theaviator #leonardodicaprio #martinscorsese
neutral · AI labelView post →#OscarsMonth #FilmSky T - Thelma Schoonmaker Three time Best Film Editing winner. Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not going to lie, I’ll be buying this because it’s Scorsese but the film - a cheap knockoff made for Roger Corman - is pretty poor. Still, Scorsese so take my money! Hope we get all his films on 4K (especially The Color of Money and The Aviator)
positive · AI labelView post →THE AVIATOR - (2004) ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌓 Last night's #Movie Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring, Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale and all star supporting cast. Watched only once before and didn't take it all in, well worth the return. #TheAviator #Movies
positive · AI labelView post →I love that in The Aviator, Rufus Wainwright plays the bandleader early in the film, and after years go by, the part is played later by his father, Loudon Wainwright.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time i’ve watched The Aviator the moment Adam Scott first shows up always takes me out of the movie. My brain can’t handle it for some reason.
neutral · AI labelView post →BTW. ‘The Aviator’ wasnominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning 5 for Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress for Blanchett. All well deserved. #BringingUpBaby #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Mood #TheAviator #film #cinema … picture of the plane you would receive as a bribe #FilmSky #movies 📽️ ✈️🎬🏝️
neutral · AI labelView post →So they asked Howard Hughes to do his patriotic duty and tell the world he was so horny for manganese that he was building a manganese mining ship that could do a flip. And he did and most people just went “Let Howard cook”. This is the Noward Hughes film we deserved but we got The Aviator.
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought Adrien Brody was terrific. As for Guy Pearce, it like he wandered in from some other movie (like say The Aviator), until a certain ugly plot point… Mixed review overall.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Movie I've Never Seen Before is: The Aviator I knew about sassy mid-Atlantic Cate Blanchett, but I didn't know about sassy mid-Atlantic Kate Beckinsale!
positive · AI labelView post →Visualized the "People vs Larry Flynt"/"The Aviator"/"The Master" type film they'll make about Musk someday... 🥴
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched The Aviator last night (unrelated to the news - we rolled it as a random number from our movie poster) and it was hard to take it in the original context without drawing a lot of parallels. But Hughes was clearly unwell, whereas Musk just seems to be a tool.
neutral · AI labelView post →Strongly agreed. And IIRC Scorcese has been pretty up-front about the fact that DiCaprio and Diaz were cast because that's how he was able to get the film funded. (DiCaprio IMO didn't grow into the shoes Scorcese was offering him until "The Aviator")
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator, a movie about a guy who famously got better
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator, that movie about William Randolph Hearst whose name escapes me…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aviator (1985) The Christopher Reeve Flying Adventure that Crashed Into Obscurity. vocal.media/geeks/the-av... #MovieSky #FilmSky #80sSky
neutral · AI labelView post →okay maybe he over-indulgences a little bit in The Departed (that said his best films in order are: 1. Silence 2. The Age of Innocence 3. Casino His best Leo film is The Aviator)
neutral · AI labelView post →THE AVIATOR (2004) Scorsese's most Wellesian film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg I have thought a lot about that trippy movie a bunch over the years but couldn’t remember the name, so somehow conflated it with The Aviator and would get really confused looking it up as I didn’t remember anything about Howard Hughes as part of this film 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤣 (I’ve never seen the other one)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tbf though I guess if I'm the caretaker of some beloved but fraught 20th century iconoclast's reputation and I see The Aviator I'd come away with a reasonable expectation you'd overlook some stuff in the movie I want you to make about a much more famous and on balance perhaps less objectionable guy
neutral · AI labelView post →Rufus in a great movie. "The Aviator" Howard Hughes legacy a tech and humanitarian giant dwarfs any billionaire we have today.
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