NEW YORK (AP) — The National Board of Review picked Martin Scorsese's 3-D Hugo as the year's Best Film, an unusually kid-friendly choice sure to add further intrigue to the Oscar hunt.
The group also picked Scorsese as Best Director for his whimsical film about an orphan who lives in a 1930s Paris train station. It's the director's first film in 3-D but one in which the adventure leads back to the early days of cinema and the wondrous films of French film-maker George Melies.
  SCORSESE... received Best Film and Best Director awards (Photo: AP) 1/1  |
It had been another movie nostalgic for the early days of movies — the silent film The Artist — that's thus far been the award season's early leader. That film didn't receive any individual awards, but it was named among the group's top films of the year. The others were The Descendants, Drive, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Ides of March, J Edgar, Tree of Life and War Horse.
Alexander's Payne's The Descendants, a warmly humorous film about a middle-aged Hawaiian (George Clooney) balancing a new commitment to parenthood, earned the most awards with three. Best Actor went to Clooney, Best Supporting Actress to the 20-year-old Shailene Woodley (who plays the eldest daughter) and Best Adapted Screenplay to Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's script, taken from Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel.
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