THE AVIATOR Screening
Martin Scorsese’s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy Sloan, production sound mixer Petur Hliddal, special effects supervisor R. Bruce Steinheimer, and miniature effects supervisor Matthew Gratzner will take part in a discussion about the film.
The US$100-million-plus The Aviator wasn’t quite the hoped-for critical and box-office hit, though the biopic won numerous accolades and did good business thanks to the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio [...]
by Andre Soares | July 24, 2008
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THE AVIATOR Notes: Howard Hughes’ Hollywood
Tommy Lee Jones plays Howard Hughes (above, lower photo) in the TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977); Jason Robards plays the old and haggard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980), for which he received an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor; George Peppard plays a fictionalized Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964); and Robert Ryan plays another Hughes clone in Caught (1949).
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Initially, Michael Mann was going to direct The Aviator, but ended up co-producing it instead. Two of Mann’s recent biopics, The Insider (1999) and Ali (2001) were major box-office disappointments.
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Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow were reportedly scheduled to play Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner, respectively. (Some reports have Paltrow as Hepburn, and Kidman as [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2004
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THE AVIATOR – Leonardo DiCaprio – d: Martin Scorsese
The Aviator (2004)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: John Logan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Ian Holm, Adam Scott, Frances Conroy, Willem Dafoe, Jacob Davich, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, Edward Herrmann, Stanley DeSantis, Danny Huston, Matt Ross
WHAT’S NOT GOOD FOR THE SPRUCE GOOSE. . .
Imagine Citizen Kane directed by Steven Spielberg. The final result would look something like a Barry Levinson film — for instance, the superficial and glitzy Bugsy. Or the superficial, glitzy, and bloated The Aviator. Except, of course, that Levinson is not the man responsible for the mega-production starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric, billionaire ladies’ man Howard Hughes. Strangely enough, that man is Martin Scorsese, the director of hard-hitting [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2004
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Tags: Alan Alda, Biopic, Cate Blanchett, Film Reviews, Films on Filmmaking, Howard Hughes, Kate Beckinsale, Katharine Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, The Aviator
