Which actress won an Academy Award for her role in Scorsese's 'The Aviator'?

Cate Blanchett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator. She portrayed Katharine Hepburn, the celebrated actor and Howard Hughes’s longtime romantic partner, in the 2004 biographical drama.

Blanchett’s performance captures Hepburn’s distinctive voice, confident manner, and independence while showing the complicated relationship between Hepburn and Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hughes, the aviation pioneer and film producer whose life becomes increasingly shaped by ambition, obsession, and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Aviator follows Hughes from 1927 through 1947, covering his work on films such as Hell’s Angels, his development of high-speed aircraft, his rivalry with Pan Am chairman Juan Trippe, and his influence at TWA. Howard Shore composed the film’s music, while John Logan wrote the screenplay.

The film received 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won five Oscars. Blanchett’s award was for Supporting Actress; she was not nominated for playing herself or for a leading role. The film also featured Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner and earned Scorsese a Best Director nomination.