The 84th Oscars happened last night, with "The Artist" winning 5 Awards including Best Picture. Here's a complelete list of winners from last night's ceremonies.

Best Picture: "The Artist."
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist."
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady."
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners."
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, "The Help."
Best Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist."
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Separation," Iran.
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, "The Descendants."
Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris."
Best Animated Feature Film: "Rango."
Best Art Direction: "Hugo."
Best Cinematography: "Hugo."
Best Sound Mixing: "Hugo."
Best Sound Editing: "Hugo."
Best Original Score: "The Artist."
Best Original Song: "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets."
Best Costume Design: "The Artist."
Best Documentary Feature: "Undefeated."
Best Documentary Short: "Saving Face."
Best Film Editing: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
Best Makeup: "The Iron Lady."
Best Animated Short Film: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore."
Best Live Action Short Film: "The Shore."
Best Visual Effects: "Hugo."

{Source: Associated Press}

Paramount Pictures announced yesterday the 3D Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, and DVD of Martin Scorsese's latest film "Hugo", which will be released February 28th. The film received 11 Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Special Features on the 3D Blu-ray and Blu-Ray include Shoot the Moon (The Making of Hugo), The Cinemagician, Georges Melies, The Mechanical Man at the Heart of Hugo, Big Effects, Small Scale, Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime.

Press Release:

Renowned director Martin Scorsese's groundbreaking and original adventure HUGO makes its highly-anticipated debut on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD, all with UltraViolet™, On Demand and for Digital Download on February 28, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Recipient of more Academy Award nominations than any other film, HUGO was honored with 11 total—including Best Picture and Best Director—and has already won Martin Scorsese the Golden Globe for Best Director, was named the best film of 2011 by the National Board of Review, and was cited by more than 150 critics as one of the top 10 films of the year including writers for Associated Press, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time, Entertainment Weekly, New Yorker, New York Daily News and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Called "magical and enchanting" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times) and "one of the wonders of the world you need to see" (David Edelstein, New York Magazine), HUGO is bursting with dynamic action, sumptuous imagery and a heartwarming and magical story that audiences of all ages can enjoy.


HUGO will be available in a three-disc Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, as well as a two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, each of which boast nearly an hour of behind-the-scenes special features including an illuminating making-of featurette, a retrospective on the extraordinary genius of filmmaker Georges Melies, a look at the mechanical man at the heart of HUGO, plus interviews with the cast and crew and more. The film will also be available as a single-disc DVD. All Blu-ray and DVD releases available for purchase will be enabled with UltraViolet, a new way to collect, access and enjoy movies. With UltraViolet, consumers can add movies to their digital collection in the cloud, and then stream or download them – reliably and securely – to a variety of devices.

HUGO Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
The HUGO Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The DVD in the combo pack is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround, Spanish 5.1 Surround and English Audio Description and English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The combo pack includes access to a digital copy of the film as well as the following:

Blu-ray

Feature film in high definition
Shoot the Moon (The Making of Hugo)
The Cinemagician, Georges Melies
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of Hugo
Big Effects, Small Scale
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

DVD
Feature film in standard definition

HUGO Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
The HUGO Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD combo pack includes all of the above, plus a Blu-ray 3D presented in 1080p high definition with English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The Blu-ray 3D includes the feature film presented in high definition and 3D.

HUGO Single-Disc DVD
The single-disc DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround, Spanish 5.1 Surround and English Audio Description and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The disc includes the feature film in standard definition and Shoot The Moon (The Making of Hugo).

HUGO Synopsis
Welcome to a magical world of spectacular adventure! When wily and resourceful Hugo discovers a secret left by his father, he unlocks a mystery and embarks on a quest that will transform those around him and lead to a safe and loving place he can call home. Academy Award-winning** filmmaker Martin Scorsese invites you to experience a thrilling journey that critics are calling "the stuff dreams are made of." (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

Paramount Pictures and GK Films present a GK Films/Infinitum Nihil Production of A Martin Scorsese Picture: "Hugo," directed by Martin Scorsese, with a screenplay by John Logan, based upon the book entitled The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. It is produced by Graham King, Tim Headington, Scorsese and Johnny Depp. The executive producers are Emma Tillinger Koskoff, David Crockett, Georgia Kacandes and Christi Dembrowski. The music supervisor is Randall Poster; casting is by Ellen Lewis.

Maybe it was Martin Scorsese’s desire to utilize the 3D format that kept me from seeing “Hugo” on the first day of its release. 2011 saw 3D get a public beating as audiences became convinced it existed as an excuse for movie studios to jack up ticket prices. But to watch “Hugo” is to be reminded of how amazing 3D can be when using the right tools and not just throwing cheap gimmicks at the audience. But moreover, it is backed up by a great story and remarkable performances as Scorsese shares his love of all things cinema with us.

Seriously, the first five minutes of “Hugo” will blow you away as you feel like you’re traveling over 1930s Paris. The snow looks like it is literally blowing in your eyes, and it reminded me of when kids were grasping at the snowflakes coming from the screen at the beginning of “The Polar Express.” Scorsese was lucky enough to use the same Fusion Camera System James Cameron used to superb effect with “Avatar.” The images stretch out from the screen, and that extra dimension gives the visuals a depth that at times feels frighteningly real.

Based on the novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick, Asa Butterfield stars as Hugo, a young boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station while maintaining the clocks and stealing whatever he needs to survive. One major obstacle he has to deal with is Inspector Gustav (Sacha Baron Cohen) who patrols around the station with his vicious looking dog. Gustav shows no hesitation in picking up orphans and sending straight to the orphanage which in the kids’ eyes seems like an unforgiving house of terrors.

Two people come to play an important role in Hugo’s life: the toy shop owner Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley), and his spirited goddaughter Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz). As Hugo continues to work on fixing an automaton he and his father (Jude Law) were putting back together in working order when he was tragically killed in a museum fire. It’s this same automaton that will draw these three together in ways they could not have imagined.

By taking us back to a time where movies were more or less in their infancy, effects we now see as cheesy and simple to create feel as magical as they did when first shown. Scorsese is brilliant in putting us into these characters’ shoes as we watch audiences react strongly to a film with train which looks like it’s coming straight at them, and at Buster Keaton hanging on for dear life from a clock outside a tall building. Looking at the awe which is so vivid in the children’s faces reminds us of how movies can magically draw us in to another world, and that’s a feeling most movies don’t give us today. In this day and age, we take the power of motion pictures for granted.

I’m not familiar with Butterfield’s work as an actor (he’s best known for “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”), but his performance here is remarkable. Showing the pain and resourcefulness of a young boy who’s lost his parents and has to fend for himself is no easy task, and he ends up giving one of 2011’s most underrated performances. Butterfield inhabits the character of Hugo so deeply that after a while it doesn’t feel like we are watching a performance at all.

Kudos also goes to Moretz, the star of “Kick Ass” and “Let Me In,” for adding yet another superb role to her already splendid resume. As the adventurous Isabelle, she even gives off a flawless English accent which is worth noting as we have gotten so used to actors screwing them up. The warmth of her smile onscreen is utterly genuine, and she lights up “Hugo” whenever it gets a little too dark.

There are other great performances to be found in “Hugo” as well; Ben Kingsley is fantastic as usual as Georges Méliès, and Christopher Lee has some wonderful moments as bookshop owner Monsieur Labisse. One of the big standouts in the supporting cast though is Sacha Baron Cohen who takes a break here from his “Borat” and “Bruno” mockumentaries as Inspector Gustav. He’s a hoot throughout, and his interactions with infinitely lovely Emily Mortimer (“Lars and the Real Girl”) are hilariously sweet.

Scorsese has put together a truly beautiful motion picture which deserves a bigger audience than it has received thus far. The fact that more people went to see “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” than this is depressing. A lot of moviegoers truly hate 3D right now, so that didn’t do this movie any favors. But after watching it you will find yourself believing it might be worth it to keep that extra dimension around for a little while longer.

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