Martin Scorsese presents his first-ever 3-D film, based on Brian Selznick's award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. A passionate brief for film preservation wrapped in a fanciful tale of childhood intrigue and adventure, Hugo dazzlingly conjoins the earliest days of cinema with the very latest big-screen technology. Co-starring Sasha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley. Winner: Best Film & Best Director, National Board Of Review!

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Director

This is the U.S version of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy, directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Seven) and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. It is a murder mystery looking back 40 years at the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the youngest heir of one of Sweden's wealthiest families. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. Investigating are Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. The film co-stars Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff and Robin Wright.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Rooney Mara)

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From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Haiwaii comes, THE DESCENDANTS, is a sometimes humourous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (Gerorge Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapproachment with his young daughters while Matt wretles with a decision to selll the familiy's land handed down from Haiwaiian royalty and missionaries.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Film and Best Actor.

A sublimely funny love letter to the end of silent movies in 1920s Hollywood, The Artist’s depiction of Hollywood’s golden age makes it this year’s Oscar dark horse. George Valentin (Cannes 2011 Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin) is a handsome and debonair star whose career comes to a crushing end with the advent of ‘talking pictures’. As Valentin quickly disappears from the A-list his former co-star Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) shoots to stardom, potentially leaving their budding romance in her wake. Winner of the Audience Awards at both the San Sebastian and Hamptons International Film Festivals, The Artist also took out the ‘Palm Dog’ award at Cannes for Valentin’s canine co-star Uggy.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director.

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is determined to make his way in the film business. Gaining employment on the UK set of The Prince And The Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), Clark could never anticipate the job that lay ahead of him. When Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for the American star to enjoy some of the pleasures of British life. Upon the publication of Clark’s diary forty years later, a single week was missing from the text. This is the incredible true story of that week. Co-starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter series) and Julia Ormand.

Best Actress Academy Award Nomination (Michelle Williams)

Three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry directs a screenplay by Academy Award winner Eric Roth (The Insider), based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s acclaimed best-seller. Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker mourning the loss of his father Thomas (Tom Hanks). When he discovers a mysterious key in his deceased father’s belongings, he is convinced that his father has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother Linda (Sandra Bullock) Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits the key. As Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs he encounters an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way and in turn, develops a greater understanding of the world around him.

Academy Award Nominee - Best Film and Best Supporting Actor (Max Von Sydow) 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas star Johnny Depp returns to the wild world of Hunter S. Thompson in writer/director Bruce Robinson's adaptation of the Gonzo journalist's "lost" autobiographical novel of the same name. Dejected over life in New York City and at bitter odds with the Eisenhower-era conventions of the 1950s, nomadic journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) flees to Puerto Rico, where he quickly lands a job as a reporter for a San Juan newspaper.

Drawing inspiration from author Ernest Hemingway's popular theory about "The Lost Generation," the newly liberated journalist develops a taste for rum as he becomes slowly entangled in the lives of American beauty Chenault (Amber Heard) and her shady husband, Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), a wealthy real-estate developer. Later, as Sanderson's underhanded business dealings begin to emerge, Kemp's principles come into focus, and his writing style begins to mature in ways he never dreamed possible.

Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers sensitive information that could easily plunge the entire business into peril, inadvertently destroying the lives and careers of his colleagues in this tense thriller set during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course of the next 24 hours, Sullivan realizes that the decisions he makes will not only affect the employees of the firm, but the lives of everyday Americans from coast to coast as well. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, and Paul Bettany co-star.

Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Screenplay