In "The Aviator, " the stars playing gods -- and monsters -- seem all too mortal.
On a recent tour of a 500-foot-deep Bahamian trench Hawkes surprised a shark that hadn't sensed the Aviator's presence.
Cate Blanchett, who won in 2004 for The Aviator, had the biggest slide.
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With a career that includes Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo and Coriolanus, Logan is one the most sought-after screenwriters in Hollywood.
Everything in between is aqua incognita, and well within the Aviator's range.
As the aviator culture fades from the Navy, what is being lost?
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Powell is a hugely successful designer and has won two statuettes - for The Aviator and Shakespeare in Love - out of eight nominations.
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Despite four previous nominations, the director has never won, and many thought that his Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator would be the film to change all that.
Barring some secret record-keeping that is someday revealed, we'll never know if Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby edged out Martin Scorsese's The Aviator by 10 votes or 1, 000.
In fact, every year since The Crying Game was nominated in 1992, Miramax has scored at least one Best Picture nominee (The Aviator is its nominee this year).
He dreamed up the Aviator after designing deep-diving suits for offshore oil rigs and submersibles for scientific research. (Titanic director James Cameron owns two craft that Hawkes designed.) Hawkes has worked for both military and private clients.
"The Aviator" bites off only a slice of Hughes's story, choosing to avoid his unsavory sex life and crackpot politics, and ending before his move to Las Vegas, where he descended into the depths of solitary madness.
Though neither is a first time nominee--Smith nabbed a nod for his title role in Ali and DiCaprio snagged two for What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Aviator--a win would mark the first time either took home a statuette.
Despite beginning Oscar season as the front-runner, and scoring more nominations than any of its rivals (11 in total), Scorsese and The Aviator ultimately lost out to Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, after a neck-and-neck battle between the two films.
First, that Mr. Scorsese, who has always yearned for a big popular success, finally has one in "The Aviator, " a flashy entertainment in which Howard Hughes intersects with Hollywood, but it may not win him the directorial Oscar he deserves for a career distinguished by daring experimentation, dazzling innovation and technical expertise.
Last year GM 's (nyse: GM - news - people ) Chevrolet Corvette as well as new entries like BMW's Mini Cooper, the Lincoln Aviator and the Volvo XC90, were sold almost exclusively to individuals.
At the villa Rolls had parked the Phantom Aviator Coupe, a special-edition car made in honor of Charles Rolls, who was a pioneering aviator and colleague of the Wright brothers.
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As a consequence, the young aviator whose daring had thrilled America and the world and whose achievement bespoke a future of unimaginable aeronautical progress came to occupy a special niche in the gallery of family anecdotes that generate a child's first cohesive mythology.
"Fox" Fallon, is not the end of a career but a move calculated to catapult the former naval aviator into the Vice Presidential sweepstakes.
Sandy had several large portraits of the heroic aviator, in both pencil and charcoal, stowed away in his portfolio.
The enthusiastic aviator spent much of 1913 preparing for an Egyptian adventure.
The Lincoln Zephyr and Mercury Milan sedans also debut this fall, followed next year by two crossovers, the Ford Edge and the Lincoln Aviator.
Cut the engines and Deep Flight Aviator floats back to the surface.
Velvet jacket, a shirt collar, whose dimensions even Harry Hill might consider a bit over the top, aviator specs.
Its chosen title, Roland Garros, was the name of a legendary World War One French aviator, who had frequented the tennis venue when he studied in Paris.
The 78-year-old aviator agreed only reluctantly to travel to Alaska to help locate the plane, since his 1958 crash still held unhappy memories.
His father, Eugene, played professional football, competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympics in 1920 and, as an aviator, was instrumental in expanding the U.S. aeronautics program.
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The book imagines a nasty turn in American politics in the 1930s, when Charles Lindbergh, an aviator with strong Nazi sympathies, wins the presidential election on an isolationist ticket.
It was rather the unknown airmail pilot who'd dared to do what had never been done by any aviator before him, the adored Lone Eagle, boyish and unspoiled still, despite the years of phenomenal fame.
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