Hugo Artist inject cinema nostalgia to Oscars

BEVERLY HILLS, California

(AP) American master

Martin Scorsese

journeyed to France, putting Hollywood's newest record to work for his gorgeous 3-D re-creation of 1930s

Paris

in "Hugo." French filmmaker

Michel Hazanavicius

came to America, reviving old-fashioned Hollywood with his desirable rebirth of early cinema in a wordless film "The Artist."

The dual films now conduct a 21st century Academy Awards uncover whose tip nominees offer amatory looks behind to a decline of moviemaking, when flicks unequivocally flickered and cutting-edge visible effects amounted to actors jumping out of a support while a camera was stopped so they would seem to magically disappear.

Scorsese's Paris journey "Hugo" led con tenders Tuesday with 11 nominations, among them best-picture and a latest directing respect for a Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Hazanavicius' "The Artist" ran second with 10 nominations, including honors for a executive and

Jean Dujardin

and

Berenice Bejo

, a stars of a film that could turn a initial wordless film to win a best-picture esteem given year one during a Oscars.

Also nominated for best picture: Alexander Payne's family play "The Descendants"; Stephen Daldry's Sept. 11 story "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; Tate Taylor's Deep South play "The Help"; Woody Allen's regretful anticipation "

Midnight in Paris

"; Bennett Miller's sports story "Moneyball";

Terrence Malick

's family account "The Tree of Life"; and Steven Spielberg's World War we epic "War Horse."

Arguably a world's many ardent moviemaker for preserving aged films and a birthright of cinema, Scorsese attempted his palm during 3-D filmmaking for a initial time on "Hugo" and crafted a demeanour with such abyss that a images are roughly tactile.

"Hugo" follows a adventures of a child and lady held adult in a poser surrounding French wordless film colonize George Melies (Ben Kingsley), who stretched a bounds of cinema with fantastical brief cinema in a early 1900s.

Today's digital record done it probable for Scorsese to emanate his elaborate apparition of long-gone Paris. But a routine he describes sounds as initial and innovative as a work Melies did a century ago.

"It was harder to do since each time we put a camera in a position we wanted, we detected new ways to do things or wrong ways to do things. We were, in a sense, constantly violation new ground," Scorsese said. "We had to rediscover how to make cinema each day, each setup."

Among a nominations for "Hugo" are blending screenplay, cinematography, low-pitched measure and visible effects.

"The Artist" is a reversion to black-and-white wordless days as a luminary of a pre-sound epoch (best-actor hopeful Dujardin) falls on tough times when articulate cinema arrive, while a rising star (supporting-actress hopeful Bejo) becomes defender angel for a former shade idol.

"Who knows? It competence be probable that he's set off a sequence reaction, and we're off for 100 years of wordless movies," Dujardin said. "I would adore it. It's unequivocally fun for an actor. It's unequivocally playful, and it's pristine emotion. In a end, we usually see what is essential. You take divided a intellect, and what's left is life."

Along with his directing honor, Hazanavicius was nominated for strange screenplay on "The Artist." The film's other nominations embody low-pitched score, cinematography and dress design.

While "Hugo" and "The Artist" are testaments to early fil mmaking, another pivotal assignment is a reverence to a big-screen's many famous sex symbol,

Marilyn Monroe

, a luminary who was never nominated for an Oscar. Michelle Williams warranted a best-actress assignment as Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn."

"I would like to consider that a approval a film has perceived by a academy is a covenant to Marilyn's legacy," Williams said.

Williams' foe includes Meryl Streep, who extended her record for many behaving nominations to 17 with a best-actress respect as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady."

Also nominated: Glenn Close for a Irish play "Albert Nobbs," Viola Davis for "The Help" and Rooney Mara for a thriller "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo."

Dujardin, a Golden Globe leader for best actor in a low-pitched or comedy, will be adult opposite Globe thespian actor target George Clooney for "The Descendants," in that a Oscar-winning luminary plays a practical purpose a s a father in crisis.

While Dujardin and Clooney were roughly positive of nominations, there were large surprises across-the-board, with longshots creation a cut and favorites removing skunked.

Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock's "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," that got churned reviews and has not been most of a cause during progressing Hollywood awards, was a unequivocally astonishing best-picture nominee. Co-star Max von Sydow was a warn hopeful for ancillary actor.

Malick's "The Tree of Life" also had been deliberate a bit of a best-picture longshot. The movie, that won tip honors during final May's Cannes Film Festival though was a love-it-or-hate-it play among audiences, also picked adult a directing assignment for Malick.

Melissa McCarthy, a supporting-actress hopeful for a marriage frisk "Bridesmaids," is a singular humorous lady competing during a Oscars, that occasionally respect performances in mainstream comedies.

"I consider it's a l arge manoeuvre for all of us," McCarthy said. "If we get a right thing and a right people, we can still make a unequivocally good film that's still a comedy."

Demian Bichir also was a warn hopeful as best actor for "A Better Life," an newcomer play that few people have seen. Bichir pronounced he had been ill a night before and schooled he was nominated when his partner called with a news.

"I suspicion it was partial of my hallucinations from a fever," Bichir said. "A assignment helps. we feel a lot improved already."

Along with Bichir, Clooney and Dujardin, a best-actor contenders are Gary Oldman for a espionage story "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and Brad Pitt for a ball story in "Moneyball."

Pitt's third Oscar assignment came for a film that he fought to make after it went on a back-burner amid screenplay and executive changes.

"This one is some-more gratifying than ever," pronounced Pitt, who also common a best-picture assignment as a writer on "Moneyball." ''This film was passed in a H2O dual and a half years ago."

Among those with clever prospects that came divided empty-handed were Leonardo DiCaprio for "J. Edgar," from long-lived Oscar heavyweight Clint Eastwood, whose latest film did not measure a singular nomination.

While Spielberg's best-picture contender "War Horse" picked adult 6 nominations, a Oscar-winning filmmaker missed out in a directing category, a esteem he has won twice. His initial animation feature, a Golden Globe-winning "The Adventures of Tintin," also did not make a list for best charcterised film.

The charcterised films that did make it: "A Cat in Paris," ''Chico & Rita," Kung Fu Panda 2," ''Puss in Boots" and "Rango."

Besides von Sydow, supporting-actor nominees are Kenneth Branagh for "My Week with Marilyn," Jonah Hill for "Moneyball," Nick Nolte for a extreme-fighting play "Warrior" and Christopher Plummer for a father-son story "Beginners."

Plummer won dur ing a Globes for his purpose as an aged father who comes out as gay. At 82, Plummer would be a oldest behaving leader ever during a Oscars; Jessica Tandy now binds that position for her best-actress win in "Driving Miss Daisy" during age 80.

Joining Bejo and McCarthy in a supporting-actress margin is Octavia Spencer, whose Globe win as a burning lassie in "The Help" positions her as a probable front-runner.

Spencer's "The Help" co-star Jessica Chastain also is nominated, along with Janet McTeer for "Albert Nobbs."

Winners during a 84th annual Oscars will be announced during a Feb. 26 rite aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, with Billy Crystal returning as horde for a initial time in 8 years.

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Germain reported from Park City, Utah. Associated Press Writers Derrik J. Lang and Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles and Jamey Keaten in Paris contributed to this report.

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