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Dates: 2011 (Copyright), July 2010 (Production), 23 November 2011 (Release)

Countries: USA, Ukrainian SSR

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Drama, fantasy. A young orphan who lives in the walls of a train station becomes embroiled in mystery involving his father, anautomaton and film pioneer Georges Méliès.

Genre:
Fantasy

Subjects:
Silent cinema, Melies, Georges (1862-1938)
Releases
Date: 23 November 2011Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSAspect ratio: 1.85:1Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Paramount Pictures
Date: 02 December 2011Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 125 mins 54 secs - Length: 11331 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd

Credits (146)
©: LLC GK Films, Production Company: GK Films, Production Company: Infinitum Nihil, Presents: Paramount Pictures, Presents: GK Films, Executive Producer: Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Executive Producer: David Crockett, Executive Producer: Georgia Kacandes, Executive Producer: Christi Dembrowski, Executive Producer: Barbara De Fina, Produced by: Graham King, Produced by: Tim Headington, Produced by: Martin Scorsese, Produced by: Johnny Depp, Line Producer: John Bernard, Unit Production Manager: Charles Newirth, Unit Production Manager: Georgia Kacandes, Unit Production Manager: Angus More Gordon, Production Manager – Paris: Michael Sharp, Production Manager: Gilles Castera, Production Co-ordinator: Hannah Godwin, Production Co-ordinator: Agnès Berméjo Lainé, Production Controller: Emma Bendell, Production Accountant: Claire Robertson, Production Accountant: Emmanuelle Balestrieri, Unit Manager: Simon Crook, Location Manager: Jamie Lengyel, Location Manager: Jérôme Boussier, Post-production Supervisor: Kelley Cribben, Researcher/Consultant: Marianne Bower, 2nd Unit Director: Rob Legato, 1st Assistant Director: Chris Surgent, 1st Assistant Director: Toby Hosking, 1st Assistant Director: Ali Cherkaoui, 2nd Assistant Director: Richard Graysmark, Script Supervisor: Martha Pinson, Script Supervisor: Diana Gill, Casting: Ellen Lewis, Screenplay by: John Logan, Based on the book entitled 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' by: Brian Selznick, Director of Photography: Robert Richardson, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Rob Legato, B Camera Operator/Steadicam: Larry McConkey, Gaffer: Lee Walters, Gaffer: Avelino Fernandez, Chief Lighting Technician: Ian Kincaid, Chief Lighting Technician: Michaël Monod, Rigging Gaffer: Gavin Walters, Key Grip: Antonin Gendre, Key Grip: Chris Centrella, Key Grip: Keith Mead, Stills Photographer: Jaap Buitendijk, Visual Effects Supervisor: Rob Legato, Visual Effects Supervisor: Ben Grossmann, Visual Effects Producer: Karen Murphy-Mundell, Visual Effects 1: Pixomondo Images, Executive Producer: Thilo Kuther, CG Supervisor: Adam Watkins, Visual Effects Producer: Jonathan Stone, Digital Producer: Natasha Ozoux, Visual Effects by: Lola VFX, Visual Effects and Digital Environments Created by: Uncharted Territory, Opening Shot by: Industrial Light and Magic, Visual Effects Supervisor: John Knoll, Matte Painting Supervision and Visual Effects by: Matte World Digital, Previsualization by: Nvizage Previsualization, Miniatures and Additional Visual Effects Photography: New Deal Studios, Digital Effects Supervisor: Alex Henning, Special Effects Supervisor: Joss Williams, Special Effects Co-ordinator/Buyer: Andrea Williams, 3D Stereographer: Demetri Portelli, Edited by: Thelma Schoonmaker, Associate Editor: Scott Brock, Assistant Editor: Red Charyszyn, VFX Editor: Red Charyszyn, Production Designed by: Dante Ferretti, Supervising Art Director: David Warren, Art Director: Rod McLean, Art Director: Luca Tranchino, Art Director: Christian Huband, Art Director: Stuart Rose, Art Director: Martin Foley, Art Director: Ashley Winter, Art Director: Stéphane Cressend, Assistant Art Director: Peter Dorme, Assistant Art Director: David Doran, Art Department Co-ordinator: Dominic J. Sikking, Set Decorator: Francesca Lo Schiavo, Graphic Designer: Laura Dishington, Graphic Designer: Liz Colbert, Draughtsman: Andrew Palmer, Draughtsman: William Coubrough, Draughtsman: Rhys Ifan, Production Buyer: Judy Ducker, Set Decorator Buyer: Emmanuel Délis, Property Master: David Balfour, Property Supervisor: Rob Hill, Construction Manager: Brian Neighbour, Costume Designer: Sandy Powell, Costume Supervisor: David Davenport, Costume Co-ordinator: Caroline Fallon, Make-up Designer: Morag Ross, Key Make-up Artist: Kate Benton, Key Make-up: Florence Cossutta, Make-up: Kerin Parfitt, Make-up Artist: Pauline Fehily, Make-up Artist: Mandy Gold, Hair Designer: Jan Archibald, Key Hairdresser: Bee Archer, Key Hair: Bettina Miquaix, Hairdresser: Gary Machin, Hairdresser: Rachael Speke, Hairdresser: Ann Townsend, Hairdresser: Rose Warder, Hairdresser: Morag Smith, Titles Designed and Produced by: Big Film Design, Title Designer: Randall Ballsmeyer, Colourist: Greg Fisher, Colour and Prints by: DeLuxe, Music Composed, Orchestrated & Conducted by: Howard Shore, Music Supervisor: Randall Poster, Supervising Score Editor: Jonathan Schultz, Music Editor: Jenny Dunnington, Score Editor: Kirsty Whalley, Score Editor: Rob Houston, Yann McCullough, Music Recorded and Mixed at Abbey Road Studios by: Simon Rhodes, Choreographer: Diana Scrivener, Sound Designer/FX Editor: Eugene Gearty, Production Sound Mixer: John Midgley, Production Sound Mixer: Martin Seeley, Sound Maintenance: Mike Reardon, Re-recording Mixer: Tom Fleischman, Supervising Sound Editor: Philip Stockton, Supervising Sound Editor: Eugene Gearty, Stunt Co-ordinator: Doug Coleman, Automaton Manufacturer: Dick George Creatives Ltd., Automaton and Horological Adviser: Michael Start, Train Consultant: Clive Lamming, Magic Consultant and Instructor: Paul Kieve, Dolby Sound Consultant: Steve F.B. Smith, Digital Intermediate and Digital Cinema Provided by: Technicolor, Filmed at: Shepperton Studios, Filmed at: Pinewood Studios, Longcross Studios
Cast (34)
Ben Kingsley (Georges Méliès), Sacha Baron Cohen (station inspector), Asa Butterfield (Hugo Cabret), Chloë Grace Moretz (Isabelle), Ray Winstone (Uncle Claude), Emily Mortimer (Lisette), Jude Law (Hugo's father), Christopher Lee (Monsieur Labisse), Helen McCrory (Mama Jeanne), Michael Stuhlbarg (Rene Tabard), Frances de la Tour (Madame Emilie), Richard Griffiths (Monsieur Frick), Kevin Eldon (policeman), Gulliver McGrath (young Tabard), Shaun Aylward (street kid), Emil Lager (Django Reinhardt), Angus Barnett (theatre manager), Edmund Kingsley (camera technician), Max Wrottesley (train engineer), Marco Aponte (train engineer assistant), Ilona Cheshire (café waitress), Francesca Scorsese, Emily Surgent, Lily Carlson (child at café), Frederick Warder, Chrisos Lawson, Tomos James (Arabian knight), Ed Sanders (young Tabard's brother), Terence Frisch, Max Cane (circus barker), Frank Bourke, Stephen Box (gendarme), Ben Addis (Salvador Dali), Robert Gill (James Joyce)
Books held in BFI Reuben Library (3)
Title: New silent cinema
Author: Flaig, Paul  Pages: viii, 349 pages
Description: The book also includes chapters on Tacita Dean's Film (2011) and Guy Maddin's online platform Séances (2015).

Title: companion to Martin Scorsese

Title: Hugo movie companion: a behind the scenes look at how a beloved book became a mojor motion picture
Author: Selznick, Brian  Pages: 255 pages