94-929: Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. A member of the Huston family of filmmakers, he is the son of director John Huston and half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston . He is known for his roles in films such as Ivans Xtc (2000), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead , 21 Grams (2003), Birth (2004), The Aviator (also 2004), The Constant Gardener (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Children of Men (also 2006), The Kingdom (2007), 30 Days of Night (also 2007), Robin Hood (2010), Hitchcock (2012), The Congress (2013), Big Eyes (2014), Wonder Woman (2017), Game Night (2018), Stan & Ollie (also 2018), and Angel Has Fallen (2019). Huston portrayed The Axeman on
188-770: A Golden Globe Award for The Cardinal (1963), and Chinatown (1974) respectively. He also acted in Casino Royale (1967), Myra Breckinridge (1970) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He voiced the wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit (1977). Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a " renaissance man " in the Hollywood film industry . He traveled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston
282-656: A panic attack . As Odekirk hides him in a restroom while Dietrich fetches a doctor, Hughes begins to have flashbacks of his childhood, his love for aviation and his ambition for success, compulsively repeating the phrase "the way of the future". Warren Beatty planned to direct and star in a Howard Hughes biopic in the early 1970s. He co-wrote the script with Bo Goldman after a proposed collaboration with Paul Schrader fell through. Goldman wrote his own script, Melvin and Howard , which depicted Hughes' possible relationship with Melvin Dummar . Beatty's thoughts regularly returned to
376-432: A Female Actor in a Supporting Role (for Blanchett). In 1913, Houston , eight-year-old Howard Hughes ' mother gives him a bath and teaches him how to spell "quarantine", warning him about the recent cholera outbreak. Fourteen years later, in 1927, he begins to direct his film Hell's Angels , and hires Noah Dietrich to manage the day-to-day operations of his business empire. After the release of The Jazz Singer ,
470-506: A chance of becoming a professional actress: Even though my part was a minor one, I felt as if I were the most important performer in the picture—when I was before the camera. This was because everything I did was important to the director. The film succeeded at the box office, and Huston was again nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay and best director, along with winning the Screen Directors Guild Award. This became
564-605: A child, Stella. Huston and Evans separated in 2006. Evans died by suicide in October 2008 before the divorce was finalized. John Huston John Marcellus Huston ( / ˈ h juː s t ən / HEW -stən ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards . He also received
658-612: A combination of romance, comedy and adventure. Barson calls it "one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time." The film's producer, Sam Spiegel , urged Huston to change the ending to allow the protagonists to survive, instead of dying. Huston agreed, and the ending was rewritten. It became Huston's most successful film financially, and "it remains one of his finest works." Huston was nominated for two Academy Awards— Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay . Bogart, meanwhile, won his only Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Charlie Allnut. Hepburn wrote about her experiences shooting
752-865: A commercial and critical hit; he continued to be a successful, if iconoclastic, Hollywood director for the next 45 years. Huston directed acclaimed films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), The Misfits (1961), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Annie (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987). During his 46-year career, Huston received 14 Academy Award nominations, winning twice. Huston acted in numerous films receiving nominations for an Academy Award and
846-623: A heavy release schedule for Warner Bros. Pictures during the fourth quarter of 2004 prompted the company to start discussions to sell distribution rights in the United States to Miramax Films . The talks were successful, with Warner Bros. Pictures and Miramax Films splitting costs and revenues 50/50 on the film's domestic release. Miramax Films distributed the film in the United States, the United Kingdom as well as Italy, France and Germany. Trifecta Entertainment & Media (via Miramax) also held
940-412: A leading 5 awards, including Best Supporting Actress (for Blanchett). At the 58th British Academy Film Awards , it received a leading 14 nominations, including Best Director , Best Actor in a Leading Role (for DiCaprio) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (for Alda), and won a leading 4 awards, including Best Film and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for Blanchett). It received 6 nominations at
1034-488: A model for many similar movies by other filmmakers. The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Huston's next film, The Red Badge of Courage (1951), was of a completely different subject: war and its effect on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in Stephen Crane 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring role, Huston chose World War II hero Audie Murphy to play
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#17328442944091128-472: A new Howard Hughes biopic in June 1999, hiring Michael Mann to direct Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role of Howard Hughes, based on a script by John Logan . The studio put it in turnaround again following the disappointing box-office performance of Mann's critically acclaimed The Insider . New Line Cinema picked it up in turnaround almost immediately, with Mann planning to direct after finishing Ali . Mann
1222-495: A number of leading films. Huston gained a reputation as a "lusty, hard-drinking libertine" during his first years as a writer in Hollywood. Huston described those years as a "series of misadventures and disappointments". In 1933 he was in a romantic relationship with actress Zita Johann . While driving drunk, with Johann as passenger, he hit a parked car sending Johann through the glass windshield. She suffered head trauma and Huston
1316-545: A period on the New York Graphic. In 1931, when he was 25, he moved back to Los Angeles in hopes of writing for the blossoming film industry. The silent films had given way to "talkies", and writers were in demand. His father had earlier moved there and already gained success in a number of films. Huston received a script editing contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions but, after six months of receiving no assignments, quit to work for Universal Studios , where his father
1410-547: A play called Frankie and Johnny , based on the ballad of the same title. After selling it easily, he decided that writing would be a viable career, and he focused on it. His self-esteem was enhanced when H. L. Mencken , editor of the popular magazine American Mercury , bought two of his stories, "Fool" and "Figures of Fighting Men." During subsequent years, Huston's stories and feature articles were published in Esquire , Theatre Arts , and The New York Times . He also worked for
1504-590: A point, with admiration. This is one of the year's best films." In his review for The Daily Telegraph , Sukhdev Sandhu praised Scorsese's direction, DiCaprio and the supporting cast but considered Beckinsale "miscast". Of the film, he said it is "a gorgeous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood" even though it "tips the balance of spectacle versus substance in favour of the former." David T. Courtwright in The Journal of American History characterized The Aviator as
1598-574: A professional boxer . By age 15 he was a top-ranking amateur lightweight boxer in California. He ended his brief boxing career after suffering a broken nose. He also engaged in many interests, including ballet , English and French literature , opera , horseback riding , and studying painting at the Art Students League of Los Angeles . Living in Los Angeles, Huston became infatuated with
1692-479: A rich sense of period detail, The Aviator succeeds thanks to typically assured direction from Martin Scorsese and a strong performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who charts Howard Hughes' descent from eccentric billionaire to reclusive madman." On Metacritic , the film received a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave
1786-423: A script by Terry Hayes . Universal canceled it when they decided they did not want to fast-track development to compete with Disney. In the mid-1990s and early 2000s, director Miloš Forman was in talks to direct a film about the early life of Hughes with Edward Norton as the eccentric young billionaire. In 2001, another version was announced to be produced and directed by William Friedkin , who intended to make
1880-697: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980. Son of actor Walter Huston , he studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by William Dieterle and Howard Hawks , among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falcon (1941), which despite its small budget became
1974-485: A supporting role to his father, Walter Huston. Warners studio was initially uncertain what to make of the film. They had allowed Huston to film on location in Mexico, which was a "radical move" for a studio at the time. They also knew that Huston was gaining a reputation as "one of the wild men of Hollywood." In any case, studio boss Jack L. Warner initially "detested it." But whatever doubts Warners had were soon removed, as
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#17328442944092068-536: A technically brilliant and emotionally disturbing film. According to him, the main achievement for Scorsese is that he managed to restore the name of Howard Hughes as a pioneer aviator. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards , winning five for Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Costume Design , Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress for Blanchett. It was also nominated for fourteen BAFTAs , winning four for Best Film , Best Makeup and Hair , Best Production Design and Best Actress in
2162-457: A three-hour film about Hughes based on the book Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters by Richard Hack . Also, in the early 2000s, director Christopher Nolan had developed a film about Hughes, itself also based on Hack's biography. All other versions were shelved when Martin Scorsese came aboard to direct The Aviator , though Nolan would later return to his Howard Hughes project after completing The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, using
2256-768: Is severely injured, but miraculously survives. The army cancels its order for the H-4 Hercules, although Hughes still continues the development with his own money. Dietrich informs Hughes that he must choose between funding the airlines or his flying boat. Hughes orders Dietrich to mortgage the TWA assets so he can continue the development. As his OCD worsens, Hughes becomes increasingly paranoid, planting microphones and tapping Gardner's phone lines to keep track of her, until she kicks him out of her house. The FBI searches his home for incriminating evidence of war profiteering , searching through his possessions. Brewster privately offers to drop
2350-462: Is the uncle of actor Jack Huston and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston . He is of Canadian, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Anglo-Indian descent. The younger Huston spent much of his early life in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and maintains British citizenship through his mother. He worked as an assistant to his father during the production of Under the Volcano (1984), and
2444-429: The 62nd Golden Globe Awards , including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (for Blanchett), and won a leading 3 awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (for DiCaprio). The film also received 3 nominations at the 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards , including Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role (for DiCaprio), winning Outstanding Performance by
2538-473: The Community Airline Bill , which would give Pan Am exclusivity on international air travel. Hepburn grows tired of Hughes' eccentricity and workaholism, and leaves him for fellow actor Spencer Tracy . Hughes quickly finds a new love interest with 15-year-old Faith Domergue , and later actress Ava Gardner . However, he still has feelings for Hepburn, and bribes a reporter to keep reports about her and
2632-579: The FX series American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino on American Horror Story: Freak Show . He played Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on Magic City (2012–13), Dan Jenkins in the first two seasons of the Paramount Network drama series Yellowstone (2018–19), and Jamie Laird on the second season of Succession (2019). His directing credits include the films Mr. North (1988), The Maddening (1995) and The Last Photograph (2017). Huston
2726-537: The H-1 Racer , pushing it to a new speed record, despite having to crash-land into a beet field when the aircraft runs out of fuel. Three years later, he breaks the world record by flying around the world in four days. He subsequently purchases majority interest in Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) . Juan Trippe , company rival and chairman of Pan Am , gets his crony, Senator Ralph Owen Brewster , to introduce
2820-460: The "main movies we watched were the war documentaries." Huston performed an uncredited rewrite of Anthony Veiller 's screenplay for The Stranger (1946), a film he was to have directed. When Huston became unavailable, the film's star, Orson Welles , directed instead; Welles had the lead role of a high-ranking Nazi fugitive who settles in New England under an assumed name. The Treasure of
2914-525: The "moral rot" he felt was created by investigation and hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), which had affected many of his friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director William Wyler and screenwriter Philip Dunne , established the "Committee for the First Amendment", as a response to the ongoing government investigations into communists within
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3008-497: The 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham , the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Hell's Angels . The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Shot in Montreal , The Aviator
3102-478: The 750 lb (340 kg) XF-11 had a 7.6 m (25 ft) wingspan. Another set of miniatures was built as a motion control miniature used for "beauty shots" of the model taking off and in flight as well as in dry dock and under construction at the miniature Hughes Hangar built by New Deal Studios. The XF-11 was reverse engineered from photographs and some rare drawings and then modeled in Rhinoceros 3D by
3196-599: The Aero Telemetry engineering department and New Deal art department. These 3D models of the Spruce Goose as well as the XF-11 were then used for patterns and construction drawings for the model makers. In addition to the aircraft, the homes that the XF-11 crashes into were fabricated at 1:4 scale to match the 1:4 scale XF-11. The model was rigged to be crashed and break up several times for different shots. The Aero Telemetry team
3290-515: The Army were "controversial", and were either not released, were censored, or banned outright, as they were considered "demoralizing" to soldiers and the public. Let There Be Light was the most controversial as the Army banned the film from public viewing due to the ethics of filming the soldiers' recovery and the lack of written permission supplied by Huston. Years later, after Huston moved to Ireland, his daughter, actress Anjelica Huston , recalled that
3384-644: The Australian western The Proposition . Huston starred in Alpha Male and Oliver Parker's Fade to Black , in which he played Orson Welles . He starred in The Kreutzer Sonata , which premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival. His other film credits include Birth , Silver City , Marie Antoinette , The Number 23 , The Kingdom , How to Lose Friends & Alienate People , and 30 Days of Night . He portrayed Samuel Adams in
3478-656: The Pacific , another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart. In 1942 Huston served in the United States Army during World War II , making films for the Army Signal Corps . While in uniform with the rank of captain, he directed and produced three films that some critics rank as "among the finest made about World War II: Report from the Aleutians (1943), about soldiers preparing for combat; The Battle of San Pietro (1945),
3572-636: The Scenes", "Scoring The Aviator ", "Visual Effects", featurettes on Howard Hughes as well as other special features. The DVD was nominated for Best Audio Commentary (New to DVD) at the DVD Exclusive Awards in 2006. The film was later released in high definition on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD on November 6, 2007. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , The Aviator has an approval rating of 86% based on 230 reviews, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "With
3666-524: The Senator of taking bribes from Trippe. He concludes by announcing that he has committed to completing the H-4 aircraft, and that he will leave the country if he cannot get it to fly. Brewster's bill is promptly defeated. After successfully flying the aircraft, Hughes speaks with Dietrich and his engineer, Glenn Odekirk , about a new jetliner for TWA. However, he begins hallucinating men in germ-resistant suits, and has
3760-435: The Sierra Madre (1948) Huston's next picture, which he wrote, directed, and briefly appeared in as an American asked to "help out a fellow American, down on his luck", was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). It would become one of the films that established his reputation as a leading filmmaker. The film, also starring Humphrey Bogart, was the story of three drifters who band together to prospect for gold. Huston gave
3854-584: The U.S. and overseas. Decades later, Film Comment magazine devoted four pages to the film in its May–June 1980 edition, with author Richard T. Jameson offering his impressions: This film has impressed itself on the heart and mind and soul of anyone who has seen it, to the extent that filmmakers of great originality and distinctiveness like Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah can be said to have remade it again and again ... without compromising its uniqueness. Key Largo (1948) Also in 1948, Huston directed Key Largo , again starring Humphrey Bogart. It
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3948-504: The United States and Canada and $ 111.1 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $ 213.7 million, against an estimated production cost of $ 110 million. The film was released on DVD in a two-disc-set in widescreen and fullscreen versions on May 24, 2005 by Warner Home Video . The first disc includes commentary with director Martin Scorsese , editor Thelma Schoonmaker and producer Michael Mann . The second disc includes "The Making of 'The Aviator' ", "Deleted Scenes", "Behind
4042-613: The award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams and Colonel William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine , a prequel to the original trilogy of X-Men films. Huston has been featured in Boogie Woogie , The Warrior's Way , Edge of Darkness , Clash of the Titans , Robin Hood , You Don't Know Jack , and Medallion . Huston played gangster Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on Mitch Glazer 's Magic City , for which he
4136-537: The book Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness by Michael Drosnin as the source. Nolan wrote the script himself, which followed the darker and final years of Hughes's life. Nolan, once again, shelved the project when Warren Beatty was developing his long-awaited Hughes film . It was reported that Nolan's version would have starred Jim Carrey as the reclusive, elderly billionaire. Disney restarted development on
4230-434: The charges if Hughes sells TWA to Trippe, but Hughes refuses. Hughes' OCD symptoms become extreme, and he retreats into an isolated " germ -free zone" for three months. Trippe has Brewster summon him for a Senate investigation, certain that Hughes will not show up. Gardner visits him and personally grooms and dresses him in preparation for the hearing. An invigorated Hughes defends himself against Brewster's charges and accuses
4324-423: The condition that his next script also became a hit. Huston wrote: They indulged me rather. They liked my work as a writer and they wanted to keep me on. If I wanted to direct, why, they'd give me a shot at it, and if it didn't come off all that well, they wouldn't be too disappointed as it was to be a very small picture. His next script was High Sierra (1941), to be directed by Raoul Walsh . The film became
4418-518: The dual roles of both Hughes and Clifford Irving . It was conceived when De Palma and Cage were working on Snake Eyes with writer David Koepp . Universal Pictures joined the competition in March 1998 when it purchased the film rights to Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes ( ISBN 0-393000-257 ), written by Donald Barlett and James Steele . The Hughes brothers were going to direct Johnny Depp as Howard Hughes, based on
4512-722: The film The Maddening . Huston was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003 for his performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc . Huston appeared in Martin Scorsese 's The Aviator . The ensemble cast was nominated for a 2004 SAG Award. In 2006, Huston received the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sandy Woodrow in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener . Huston starred in
4606-420: The film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer James Agee called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive movies I have ever seen." Time magazine described it as "one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk." Huston won Oscars for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay ; his father won for Best Supporting Actor . The film also won other awards in
4700-437: The film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and described the film and its subject, Howard Hughes, in these terms: "What a sad man. What brief glory. What an enthralling film...There's a match here between Scorsese and his subject, perhaps because the director's own life journey allows him to see Howard Hughes with insight, sympathy – and, up to
4794-481: The film in her memoir, The Making of the African Queen: Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind . Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the film White Hunter, Black Heart , based on Peter Viertel 's novel of the same name, which tells a fictional version of the making of the film. In 1952 Huston moved to Ireland as a result of his "disgust" at the "witch-hunt" and
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#17328442944094888-616: The film industry. The HCUA was calling numerous filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to testify about any past affiliations. The Aviator (2004 film) The Aviator is a 2004 American epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan . It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes , Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn , and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner . The supporting cast features Ian Holm , John C. Reilly , Alec Baldwin , Jude Law , Gwen Stefani , Kelli Garner , Matt Ross , Willem Dafoe , Alan Alda , and Edward Herrmann . Based on
4982-591: The film. The color effects were created by Legend Films . Scale models were used to duplicate many of the flying scenes in the film. When Martin Scorsese began planning his aviation epic, a decision was made to film flying sequences with scale models rather than CGI special effects. The critical reaction to the CGI models in Pearl Harbor (2001) had been a crucial factor in Scorsese's decision to use full-scale static and scale models in this case. The building and filming of
5076-475: The first partially talking film, Hughes becomes obsessed with shooting his film realistically, and decides to convert the movie to a sound film. Despite the film being a hit, Hughes remains unsatisfied with the result and orders it to be recut after its Hollywood premiere. He becomes romantically involved with actress Katharine Hepburn , who helps to ease the symptoms of his worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and germaphobia . In 1935, Hughes test flies
5170-405: The flying models proved both cost-effective and timely. The primary scale models were the Spruce Goose and the XF-11; both flyable scale models were designed and fabricated over a period of several months by Aero Telemetry, an aerospace company that specializes in building unmanned air vehicles. The 375 lb (170 kg) Spruce Goose model had a wingspan of 6.1 m (20 ft) while
5264-485: The future." In an article for the American Cinematographer , John Pavlus wrote: "The film boasts an ambitious fusion of period lighting techniques, extensive effects sequences and a digital re-creation of two extinct cinema color processes: two-color and three-strip Technicolor." For the first 52 minutes of the film, scenes appear in shades of only red and cyan blue; green objects are rendered as blue. This
5358-551: The hit Huston wanted. It also made Humphrey Bogart a star with his first major role, as a gunman on the run. Warners kept their end of the bargain and gave Huston his choice of subject. For his first directing assignment, Huston chose Dashiell Hammett 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon , a film which failed at the box office in two earlier versions by Warners. However, studio head Jack L. Warner approved of Huston's treatment of Hammett's 1930 novel, and he stood by his word to let Huston choose his first subject. Huston kept
5452-546: The incident left him "traumatized". He moved to London and Paris , living as a "drifter." By 1937, the 31-year-old Huston returned to Hollywood intent on being a "serious writer." He married again, to Lesley Black. His first job was as scriptwriter with Warner Brothers Studio , and he formed his personal longterm goal to direct his own scripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as Jezebel , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse , Juarez , Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet , and Sergeant York (1941). He
5546-433: The lead role. Bogart was happy to take the role, as he liked working with Huston. The supporting cast included other noted actors: Mary Astor , Peter Lorre , Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own father, Walter Huston . The film was given only a small B-movie budget, and received minimal publicity by Warners, as they had low expectations. The entire film was made in eight weeks for only $ 300,000. Warners
5640-709: The married Tracy out of the press. In the mid-1940s, Hughes contracts two projects with the Army Air Forces , one for a spy aircraft , and another for a troop transport unit for use in World War II . In 1947, with the H-4 Hercules flying boat still in construction, Hughes finishes the XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft and takes it for a test flight. However, one of the engines fails midflight; he crashes in Beverly Hills and
5734-613: The most accurate depiction of OCD. The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors as well as the time period, given that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychiatric definition for what ailed him. Instead of receiving proper treatment, Hughes was forced to hide his stigmatized compulsions; his disorder began to conflict with everyday functioning. DiCaprio dedicated hundreds of hours of work to portray Hughes' unique case of OCD on screen. Apart from doing his research on Hughes, DiCaprio met with people suffering from OCD. In particular, he focused on
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#17328442944095828-428: The new film industry and motion pictures, as a spectator only. To Huston, " Charlie Chaplin was a god." Huston returned to New York City to live with his father, who was acting in off-Broadway productions, and had a few small roles. He later remembered that while watching his father rehearse, he became fascinated with the mechanics of acting: What I learned there, during those weeks of rehearsal, would serve me for
5922-412: The plot, involving a large jewelry theft, by examining the minute, step-by-step details and difficulties each of the characters had of carrying it out. Some critics felt that, by this technique, Huston had achieved an almost "documentary" style. His assistant director Albert Band explains further: I'll never forget it. We got on that set and he composed a shot in which ten elements were working all at
6016-507: The point where Huston felt like stepping down to avoid growing the conflict. However, Mayer encouraged Huston to stay on telling him to fight for the picture regardless of what he thought of it. The African Queen (1951) Before The Red Badge of Courage opened in theaters, Huston was already in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951), a story based on C. S. Forester 's popular novel. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in
6110-419: The project over the years, and in 1990 he approached Steven Spielberg to direct Goldman's script. Beatty's Hughes biopic was eventually released under the title Rules Don't Apply in 2016. Charles Evans, Jr. purchased the film rights of Howard Hughes: The Untold Story ( ISBN 0-525-93785-4 ) in 1993. Evans secured financing from New Regency Productions , but development stalled. The Aviator
6204-469: The rest of my life. After a short period of acting on stage, and having undergone surgery, Huston travelled alone to Mexico. During two years there, among other adventures, he obtained a position as an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry. He returned to Los Angeles and married Dorothy Harvey, a girlfriend from high school. Their marriage lasted seven years (1926–1933). During his stay in Mexico, Huston wrote
6298-730: The rights to the US television distribution, while Warner Bros. Pictures retained the rights for home video distribution in North America (though the North American home video releases feature the Miramax Films logo at the beginning of the film instead) and theatrical release in Canada and Latin America. Initial Entertainment Group released the film in the remaining territories around the world. The Aviator
6392-519: The same time. Took half a day to do it, but it was fantastic. He knew exactly how to shoot a picture. His shots were all painted on the spot ... He had a great eye and he never lost his sense of composition. Film critic Andrew Sarris considered it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made Marilyn Monroe a recognized actress. Sarris also notes the similar themes in many of Huston's films, as exemplified by this one: "His protagonists almost invariably fail at what they set out to do." This theme
6486-413: The screenplay close to the novel, keeping much of Hammett's dialogue, and directing it in an uncluttered style, much like the book's narrative. He did unusual preparation for his first directing job by sketching out each shot beforehand, including camera positions, lighting, and compositional scale, for such elements as closeups. He especially benefited by selecting a superior cast, giving Humphrey Bogart
6580-496: The story (censored by the Army) of a failure by America's intelligence agencies that resulted in many deaths, and Let There Be Light (1946), about psychologically damaged veterans. It was censored and suppressed for 35 years, until 1981. Huston was promoted to the rank of major and received the Legion of Merit award for "courageous work under battle conditions." All of his films made for
6674-411: The way some individuals would compulsively and repeatedly wash their hands, later inspiring the scene in which his hand starts to bleed as he scrubs it in the bathroom. The character arc of Howard Hughes was a drastic one: from the height of his career to the appearance of his compulsions, and eventually, to him sitting naked in a screening room, refusing to leave, and later repeating the phrase "the way of
6768-686: The women who had loved him, they inevitably referred to his mother as the key to unlocking Huston's psyche." According to actress Olivia de Havilland , "she [his mother] was the central character. I always felt that John was ridden by witches. He seemed pursued by something destructive. If it wasn't his mother, it was his idea of his mother." As a child, Huston was often ill; he was treated for an enlarged heart and kidney ailments. He recovered after an extended bedridden stay in Arizona and moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School . He dropped out after two years to become
6862-423: The young Union soldier who deserts his company out of fear, but later returns to fight alongside them. MGM was concerned that the movie seemed too antiwar for the postwar period. Without Huston's input, they cut down the running time of the film from eighty-eight minutes to sixty-nine, added narration, and deleted what Huston felt was a crucial scene. The movie did poorly at the box office. Huston suggests that it
6956-476: Was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced this to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He eventually returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. He was the father of actress Anjelica Huston , whom he directed to an Oscar win. John Huston was born on August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri . He was the only child of Reah (née Gore) and Canadian-born Walter Huston . His father
7050-474: Was a joint production between Warner Bros. Pictures , which handled Latin American and Canadian distribution, and Disney , which released the film internationally under its Miramax Films banner in the United States and the United Kingdom. Disney previously developed a Hughes biopic with director Brian De Palma and actor Nicolas Cage between 1997 and 1998. Titled Mr. Hughes , the film would have starred Cage in
7144-588: Was a second unit director on The Dead (1987). Huston is a graduate of London Film School . Huston made his acting debut at the age of 12 in the George Kennedy -starring thriller film The "Human" Factor (1975). In 1988, Huston directed Mr. North , which was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder 's Theophilus North . The film was produced by his father, who died before its completion. In 1995, Huston played Bartender #2 in Leaving Las Vegas and directed
7238-532: Was a star. At Universal, he got a job in the script department, and began by writing dialogue for a number of films in 1932, including Murders in the Rue Morgue , A House Divided , and Law and Order . The last two also starred his father, Walter Huston . A House Divided was directed by William Wyler , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process during all stages of production. Wyler and Huston became close friends and collaborators on
7332-454: Was also expressed in Treasure of the Sierra Madre , where the group foundered on their own greed. It starred Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe , a personal friend of Huston. Marilyn Monroe had her first serious role in this film. Huston said, "it was, of course, where Marilyn Monroe got her start." Monroe said Huston was the first genius she had ever met; and he made her feel that she finally had
7426-500: Was an actor, initially in vaudeville , and later in films. His mother worked as a sports editor for various publications but stopped after John was born. Similarly, his father ended his stage acting career for steady employment as a civil engineer , although he returned to stage acting within a few years. He later became highly successful on both Broadway and then in motion pictures. He had Scottish , Scotch-Irish , English and Welsh ancestry. Huston's parents divorced in 1913 when he
7520-586: Was annoyed that the studio cut several scenes from the final release without his agreement. That, along with some earlier disputes, angered Huston enough that he left the studio when his contract expired. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) In 1950 he wrote and directed The Asphalt Jungle , a film which broke new ground by depicting criminals as somewhat sympathetic characters, simply doing their professional work, "an occupation like any other". Huston described their work as "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Huston achieved that effect by giving "deep attention" to
7614-550: Was born May 14, 1962, in Rome , Italy. He is the son of director and actor John Huston and actress Zoe Sallis. At the time, Huston was in Italy directing The Bible: In the Beginning... , in which Sallis played Hagar . Through his father, he is the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston . He has two adoptive siblings, Pablo Huston and writer Allegra Huston . He
7708-465: Was charged with driving while intoxicated. His brief career as a Hollywood writer ended suddenly when he struck and killed actress Tosca Roulien, wife of actor Raul Roulien , while driving. There is a rumor that actor Clark Gable was responsible for the accident, but that MGM general manager Eddie Mannix paid Huston to take the blame. Gable was on location filming a movie, however, proving that rumor untrue. A coroner's jury absolved Huston of blame, but
7802-468: Was done, according to Scorsese, to emulate the look of early bipack color films, in particular the Multicolor process, which Hughes himself owned, emulating the available technology of the era. Similarly, many of the scenes depicting events occurring after 1935 are treated to emulate the saturated appearance of three-strip Technicolor . Other scenes were stock footage colorized and are incorporated into
7896-539: Was eventually replaced by Scorsese, who had worked with DiCaprio on Gangs of New York . Scorsese later said that he "grossly misjudged the budget". Angelina Jolie was approached by the studios to have a role in the film but she turned it down after learning executive producer Harvey Weinstein was involved with the film. Hughes suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), most notably an obsession with germs and cleanliness. Scorsese and DiCaprio worked closely with Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD of UCLA , to portray
7990-500: Was given a limited release on December 17, 2004, in 40 theaters where it grossed $ 858,021 on its opening weekend. It was given a wide release on December 25, 2004, and opened in 1,796 theaters in the United States, grossing $ 4.2 million on its opening day and $ 8.6 million in its opening weekend, ranking No. 4 with a per theater average of $ 4,805. On its second weekend, it moved up to No. 3 and grossed $ 11.4 million – $ 6,327 per theater. The film grossed $ 102.6 million in
8084-456: Was given only three months to complete the three models including the 450 lb H-1 Racer, with an 5.5 m (18 ft) wingspan, that had to stand-in for the full-scale replica that was destroyed in a crash, shortly before principal photography began. The models were shot on location at Long Beach and other California sites from helicopter or raft platforms. The short but much heralded flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947,
8178-452: Was nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays for both Ehrlich and Sergeant York. Huston wrote that Sergeant York , which was directed by Howard Hawks , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a triumph playing the young mountaineer." Huston was recognized and respected as a screenwriter. He persuaded the Warners to give him a chance to direct, under
8272-714: Was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2013. He portrayed The Axeman in the FX thriller series American Horror Story: Coven and Massimo Dolcefino in American Horror Story: Freak Show . Huston starred as General Erich Ludendorff in the 2017 film Wonder Woman and as Wade Jennings in Angel Has Fallen . In 1989, Huston married actress Virginia Madsen . They divorced in 1992. In 2001, he married Katie Jane Evans with whom he had
8366-475: Was possibly because it "brought war very close to home." Huston recalls that at the preview showing, before the film was halfway through, "damn near a third of the audience got up and walked out of the theater." Despite the "butchering" and weak public response, film historian Michael Barson describes the movie as "a minor masterpiece." At the same time, the film was also the cause of a growing feud between MGM founder Louis B. Mayer and Producer Dore Schary to
8460-582: Was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach . The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures built by New Deal Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon , with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose . Warner Bros. Pictures originally bought North American distribution rights to The Aviator shortly before production on the film began. However,
8554-530: Was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive reviews with critics praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett. It grossed $ 214 million on a budget of $ 110 million, thus emerging as a moderate commercial success at the box-office. The Aviator received a leading 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director (for Scorsese), Best Actor (for DiCaprio), and Best Supporting Actor (for Alda), and won
8648-609: Was six years old. For much of his childhood, he lived and studied in boarding schools . During summer vacations, he traveled separately with each of his parents – with his father on vaudeville tours, and with his mother to horse races and other sports events. Young Huston benefited greatly from seeing his father act on stage, and he was later drawn to acting. Some critics, such as Lawrence Grobel, surmise that his relationship with his mother may have contributed to his marrying five times, and seeming to have difficulty in maintaining relationships. Grobel wrote, "When I interviewed some of
8742-510: Was surprised by the immediate enthusiastic response by the public and critics, who hailed the film as a "classic", with many ranking it as the "best detective melodrama ever made." Herald Tribune critic Howard Barnes called it a "triumph." Huston received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. After this film, Huston directed all of his screenplays, except for one, Three Strangers (1946). In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring Bette Davis , and Across
8836-458: Was the story about a disillusioned veteran who clashes with gangsters on a remote Florida key. It co-starred Lauren Bacall , Claire Trevor , Edward G. Robinson , and Lionel Barrymore . The film was an adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson . Some viewers complained that it was still overly stage-bound. But the "outstanding performances" by all the actors saved the film, and Claire Trevor won an Oscar for best supporting actress. Huston
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