He was given that oscar because the academy got tired of screwing up. This has happened to other actors too, e.g. Morgan Freeman, Robin Williams, Al Pacino, etc.
Not only that SRT480, but he somehow managed to achieve all of this while suffering from the most debilitating disorder, OCD. That in itself speaks volumes of the man. In a time when OCD was unknown, Hughes suffered incredibly yet despite this managed to achieve all that he did. As a fellow sufferer of OCD, I have the utmost respect for Hughe's' accomplishments.
SRT480 Well, no, he wasn't, he was a complete fucking idiot in business matters and Noah Dietrich was the real brains behind his operation (Dietrich clims hat when he Hughes hired him, he asked him "now what? Should I pay you a year of your salary in advance?") and he wasn't a patriot either, he's stirring senate hearing speech was all for show, as soon as the US started its nuclear testing in the desert near his hotel he left to never come back.
"I suppose you could call them that, yes". Not much in there by way of self-incrimination. So the Senator asks for clarification, hoping to 'get him'. And boy doesn't he get a flaying instead!
Brewster should have stopped the trial when Hughes warned him during the lunch they had together... That confidence in Howard's voice was everything...
What a guy..... need more people like this great man
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Howard Hughes: Now I put the sweat of my life into this thing, I got my reputation all rolled up in it, and I have stated several times that if the Hercules fails to fly, I will leave this country and never come back! And I mean it!
This scene would have been a superb ending to the film instead of showing Hughes in the early stages of deterioration when he started saying "The way of the future" repeatedly. Still, it was a good film.
@TFrOcks25 When I first heard that he was going to play Howard Hughes, I didn't think that Leonardo DiCapprio would be able to pull it off. Glad to see that I was wrong.
@JonInCorpus Despite the fact that Howard Hughes was not a likeable person I agree with your comment. When it came to business he never let anyone walk over him, especially pompous senators.
This was right before DiCaprio had come out of his"cocoon." Just a bit too early for a role like this,though he does his best. 2 years later or now and he would have won,no doubt.
I think that with all his money and enterprises and movie deals, mr Hughes was just as powerful if not more than any senator, so he was not all that much in a disadvantage in the hearrings
@@arzy2008 Basically the senator was attacking Howard Hughes over false accusations of war profiteering. Although a lot of the investigation was actually started by a senator who was paid off by a competing airline who wanted to fly the Atlantic.