Hugo movie how many oscars

The year-old Hugo works in a busy Paris rail station as a clock keeper. As the movie has garnered so much attention, the book has once again found a well deserved place in the spotlight. And what are your predictions for the Academy Awards? A blog about books. Rare books. Jan 25, Do you collect children's books? Master Content Brain. The original screenplay award was reserved for Woody Allen for his time-traveling romantic fantasy Midnight in Paris.

A Separation , the account of a divorcing couple, became the first Iranian entry to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film. The film follows a Memphis high school football team during the course of a winning season which it entered as decided underdogs only to emerge victorious after a series of character-building crises. Live-action director Gore Verbinski , making his first foray into animation, won the award for best animated feature for Rango , an anthropomorphic spoof of Western movies.

Two wins for Hugo kicked off the evening. And the Hugo bandwagon kept on rolling through the technical awards. The period movie, set in a Parisian train station where the sights include a runaway locomotive, also took the prize for best visual effects. Next up for the film was composer Ludovic Bource , who was voted the prize for best score.

Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. February 26, pm. Related Stories. The evening kicked off with Hugo actor Sacha Baron Cohen having to be escorted from the red carpet as he carried out his threat to turn up in costume as the lead character in his forthcoming film.

The Dictator. Hosting duties were back in the safe hands of Billy Crystal , after last year's embarrassing experiment with James Franco and Anne Hathaway, and he duly gave his audience what they wanted: having himself edited into a series of clips and ribbing his audience.

As the first awards were given out, Hugo shot into an early lead as it picked up most of the technical awards, winning for best art direction, best sound editing and best visual effects among others.

Asghar Farhadi, winner of the best foreign language film with A Separation, became the first Iranian director honoured by the Academy. Farhadi used his podium appearance to plead for tolerance between the Iran and the US, telling his audience that his country was "spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.