Best Picture

Feb 16, 2005 12:00 a.m. - Variety.com

Eye on the Oscars: Wrap 2005: How we got here -- It was the year of the biopic and Oscar definitely took notice, giving three of its five film noms to the form. "The Aviator" director Martin Scorsese has claimed a stake in biopics ever since his scorching 1980 portrait of prizefighter Jake LaMotta, "Raging Bull." The homework for "Aviator" turned screenwriter John Logan’s office into a crazy mosaic of every aspect of Hughes’ life.

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