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Scorsese’s movie focuses on the rise of Howard Hughes and his impact on Hollywood, aviation, and his struggle with mental illness over twenty years from the 1920s to the 1940s. The motion picture starred Scorsese muse Leonardo di Caprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchet as the acclaimed actress Katherine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale played the screen star, Ava Gardiner. The supporting cast featured some high-profile actors who would typically have expected to headline a movie. <i>The Aviator</i>, which was released on Christmas Day was both a box-office smash and praised by critics. The movie received eleven nominations at the Academy Awards and won seven in 2005. When the film was released, there were questions regarding the portrayal of Hughes and other figures in the movie.
====Howard Hughes Character====The movie perfectly captures the early life of Howard Hughes. He was indeed the rather a spoilt child of a very wealthy family in Texas. The young boy Hughes was fascinated by all things technical and this , an interest he probably inherited from shared with his father, Howard . Hughes Senior. He father had invented a drill for the oil industry and had founded the Hughes Tool Company, based in Houston, Texas, which was extremely extraordinarily profitable . <ref> Barlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. Howard Hughes: His Life & Madness (New York, WW Norton & Company, 2004, p 14</ref>). Howard became very wealthy at the age of 19, because nineteen when he inherited the majority of Hughes Tools, which was based in Houston, Texas. This allowed him to follow his passions and he had many of these. The wealth of the Texan is captured very well in the movie and it did allow him to live a lavish captures not only Hughes's lifestyle and but shows that he used the wealth to fund his many numerous projects. The movie accurately portrays Hughes as a playboy in the roaring 1920s and 1930s and indeed this was the case. Scorsese in his movie manages to capture the drive and the sheer brilliance of Hughes. He was never idle and was always had involved with multiple projects on the go.
==Howard Hughes and the movies==
