The Aviator (2004)

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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. Wikipedia ↗

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama directed by Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Howard Hughes, the billionaire aviator, filmmaker, and industrialist whose extraordinary ambitions and crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder defined one of the most remarkable and tragic lives of the 20th century. The film spans Hughes's career from the late 1920s through the late 1940s — his production of the groundbreaking Hell's Angels, his romance with Katharine Hepburn played by Cate Blanchett, his design and test-flight of the fastest aircraft in the world, his battles with the airline industry and a hostile Senator, and his gradual psychological deterioration into paranoid isolation.

Leonardo DiCaprio's performance captured Hughes's intoxicating energy and devastating fragility, portraying his OCD not as a quirk but as a genuinely debilitating condition that progressively consumed him. Cate Blanchett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her uncannily accurate Katharine Hepburn. The Aviator received eleven Academy Award nominations, winning five.

The film earned $213 million worldwide on a $110 million budget.