The Aviator (2004)

The Aviator rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 401K votes

Rotten Tomatoes86%

Metacritic77%

TMDb7.215/10· 6K votes

With 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 77/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Aviator

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.

Cast of The Aviator

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  as Howard Hughes

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  Cate Blanchett

  as Katharine Hepburn

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  Kate Beckinsale

  as Ava Gardner

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  John C. Reilly

  as Noah Dietrich

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  Alec Baldwin

  as Juan Trippe

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  Alan Alda

  as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster

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  Ian Holm

  as Professor Fitz

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  Danny Huston

  as Jack Frye

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  Gwen Stefani

  as Jean Harlow

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  Jude Law

  as Errol Flynn

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  Adam Scott

  as Johnny Meyer

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  Matt Ross

  as Glenn Odekirk

The Aviator facts

Budget

$110M

Box office

$213.7M

Our take on The Aviator

Martin Scorsese's 2004 drama is a biopic tracing filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, as he rises into a successful film producer and aviation magnate while his mind unravels under severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scorsese charts ambition and genius shadowed by mounting compulsion, pairing lavish period spectacle with an intimate portrait of a man at war with himself. It's a sweeping, sumptuously mounted character study for viewers who value performance, craft and the cost of obsession over brisk plotting. If you appreciate ambitious biographical drama about American reinvention and private torment, this is a rich, rewarding sit.