Directed by:
Martin ScorseseScreenplay:
John LoganCinematography:
Robert RichardsonComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg (more)VOD (3)
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After his clockmaker father (Jude Law) perishes in a museum fire, Hugo goes to live with his Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone), a drunkard who maintains the clocks at a Paris train station. When Claude disappears, Hugo carries on his work and fends for himself by stealing food from area merchants. In his free time, he attempts to repair an automaton his father rescued from the museum, while trying to evade the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), a World War I veteran with no sympathy for lawbreakers. When Georges (Ben Kingsley), a toymaker, catches Hugo stealing parts for his mechanical man, he recruits him as an assistant to repay his debt. If Georges is guarded, his open-hearted ward, Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), introduces Hugo to a kindly bookseller (Christopher Lee), who directs them to a motion-picture museum, where they meet film scholar René (Michael Stuhlbarg). In helping unlock the secret of the automaton, they learn about the roots of cinema, starting with the Lumière brothers, and give a forgotten movie pioneer his due, thus illustrating the importance of film preservation, a cause to which the director has dedicated his life. If Scorsese's adaptation of "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" isn't his most autobiographical work, it just may be his most personal. (Entertainment in Video)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2012 - Robert Richardson (Best Achievement in Cinematography)
- 2012 - Dante Ferretti (Best Achievement in Production Design)
- 2012 - Best Achievement in Visual Effects
- 2012 - Best Sound Mixing
- 2012 - Best Sound Editing
- 2012 - Graham King, Martin Scorsese (Best Motion Picture of the Year)
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Achievement in Directing)
- 2012 - John Logan (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- 2012 - Thelma Schoonmaker (Best Achievement in Film Editing)
- 2012 - Howard Shore (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score))
- 2012 - Sandy Powell (Best Achievement in Costume Design)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2012 - Best Sound
- 2012 - Best Production Design
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2012 - Robert Richardson (Best Cinematography)
- 2012 - Best Editing
- 2012 - Howard Shore (Best Music)
- 2012 - Best Costume Design
- 2012 - Best Make Up/Hair
- 2012 - Best Special Visual Effects
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2013 - Martin Scorsese (Best American Film)
Czech Lion Awards
- 2012 - Best Foreign Film
Amanda Awards
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Foreign Language Film)
AACTA International Awards
- 2012 - Best Film
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Direction)
Golden Globes
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2012 - Best Motion Picture – Drama
- 2012 - Howard Shore (Best Original Score)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2012 - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo (Best Art Direction)
- 2012 - Best Picture
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2012 - Asa Butterfield (Best Young Actor/Actress)
- 2012 - John Logan (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- 2012 - Robert Richardson (Best Cinematography)
- 2012 - Thelma Schoonmaker (Best Editing)
- 2012 - Howard Shore (Best Score)
- 2012 - Best Sound
- 2012 - Sandy Powell (Best Costume Design)
- 2012 - Best Visual Effects
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2011 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2011 - Dante Ferretti (Best Art Direction/Production Design)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2011 - Best Production Design
- 2011 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2011 - Best Film
- 2011 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2011 - Robert Richardson (Best Cinematographer)
The Saturn Awards
- 2012 - Dante Ferretti (Best Production Design)
- 2012 - Best Fantasy Film
- 2012 - Martin Scorsese (Best Director)
- 2012 - John Logan (Best Writing)
- 2012 - Ben Kingsley (Best Actor)
- 2012 - Asa Butterfield (Best Performance by a Younger Actor)
- 2012 - Chloë Grace Moretz (Best Performance by a Younger Actor)
- 2012 - Howard Shore (Best Music)
- 2012 - Thelma Schoonmaker (Best Editing)
- 2012 - Sandy Powell (Best Costumes)