Media Art: The Oscars

The 2013 Oscars were handed out on Sunday and the Best Picture went to Argo which also won Best Film Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay with Ang Lee winning Best Director, Quentin Tarantino winning Best Original Screenplay, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actor Awards and Christoph Waltz and Anne Hathaway taking away the Supporting Actor Oscars.   Best Documentary went to Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn for their film Searching for Sugar Man and Best Animation went to Pixar's Brave.

Today we'll be wrapping up Hugo, a big Oscar winner last year and you'll be asked to write a critique using the same format which will be due on Friday but take a look at the video clip below for a peak at the author and the inspiration for the film, a real automiton.

Media Arts: Hugo

This week in Media Arts class we are watching the Oscar winning 2011 film Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret about the last days of film pioneer Georges Méliès life in Paris's Gare Montparnasse railway station.  The film features cameos by characters such as: the guitarist Django Reinhardt, artist Salvador Dalí, and writer James Joyce and goes over the period of time in film history we just discussed in class.  The short video above gives a look at how difficult some of the shots were with a complicated tracking shot which goes around characters through 3 rooms, pretty impressive!