Hugo
Scorsese's first 3D film, a Paris station mystery that leads to Georges Méliès.
Hugo is a 2011 adventure drama directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan from Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It follows a boy living alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in 1930s Paris who is drawn into a mystery about his late father's automaton and the pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Producer
- Graham King
- Timothy Headington
- Martin Scorsese
- Johnny Depp
- Screenplay
- John Logan
- Based on
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
- Starring
- Ben Kingsley
- Sacha Baron Cohen
- Asa Butterfield
- Chloë Grace Moretz
- Ray Winstone
- Emily Mortimer
- Jude Law
- Music
- Howard Shore
- Cinematography
- Robert Richardson
- Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker
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Background
It was the first film Scorsese shot in 3D, and he said the format made the actors' slightest moves and intentions register more precisely. Released in the United States on 23 November 2011, it was praised by critics but lost money, grossing $185 million against an estimated $150 million budget. It received 11 Academy Award nominations, more than any other film that year, and won five: cinematography, art direction, sound mixing, sound editing and visual effects.
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