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HugoBest Picture?
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Hugo
 February 19, 2012
Hugo has 11 Oscar Nominations, foreverything except acting, and it showson the screen. Beautiful to look at, butthe emotional ride is impersonal andcontrived to tug at the orphan withinus all, searching for understandingabout how the world ticks, usuallyagainst our best efforts.
 Like
The Artist
, another nominated picturewhich is about the early days of movies andis silent, Hugo waits a long time for the firstline of dialogue, preferring to use striking 3Dscenes and images to draw us into Paris of the1920s and the magic world of clocks andtrains and a mysterious automatron figure thatwrites when you wind it up and insert aspecial heart-shaped key.We first meet
 Hugo
through the face of a giant clock inthe train station, a complex behind-the-scenes world of stairs and alleyways that are used to maintain the manyclocks used to keep passengers and trains on time. Hugois an orphan who, with his uncle missing, has becomethe clock master, winding and fixing all the clocks in thestation. When he
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s not fixing things, he
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s stealing things
 
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to survive. Stuff like food and spare parts for hismechanical things, especially his special mechanical manwho desperately wants to write out a message from hisdead father. So, after one too many thefts, Hugo meetsanother orphan, a girl who reads about adventures butnever experienced one until now.Together, they stay one step ahead of the authoritiesand re-unite her uncle Georges with his remarkablepast as a leading filmmaker of early cinema, beforeWWI. It is a simple story, told to the ticking of clocksand with a multitude of stereotypes and set scenesyou
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ve seen many times before. The magic of 
 Hugo
isthe presentation of this world, the magnificent use of 3D by director Martin Scorsese and his love of thefilms of Georges Méliès.It is nominated for 11 Oscars including:
Best Picture:
 
"Hugo"
Graham King and Martin Scorsese,Producers 
Achievement in Directing:
Martin Scorsese
Adapted Screenplay:
 
"Hugo"
Screenplay by John Logan 
Achievement in Art Direction:
 
"Hugo"
ProductionDesign: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca LoSchiavo
Achievement in cinematography:
 
"Hugo"
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