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Hugo is a 2011 American adventure drama film [5] directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, and adapted for the screen by John Logan.Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s, only to become embroiled in a mystery surrounding his late father's automaton and the ...
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Hugo (software), a static site generator; 2106 Hugo, an asteroid named after French writer Victor Hugo; Hugo (crater), a crater on the planet Mercury; Hugo's, a grocery chain in the United States; Hurricane Hugo, a hurricane in September 1989; HU-GO, an electric vehicle manufactured in Hafertepe University, Turkey; Hugo (cocktail), a drink
Retrospective Hugo Awards, or Retro-Hugos, were added as a concept to the Hugo Awards in 1996. They are awards given for years in which no Hugos were originally awarded. Prior to 2017, they could be awarded for works in a year 50, 75, or 100 years prior, after 1939, where there was a Worldcon but where no Hugos were awarded.
Hugo (Skærmtrolden Hugo in Danish, meaning "Hugo the Screen-Troll" [note 1]) is a media franchise created by the Danish company Interactive Television Entertainment (later ITE Media) in 1990 for the purpose of interactive television for children.
Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 11 July 1958) is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward.A prolific goalscorer known for his spectacular strikes and volleys, he is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican footballer of all time, one of the best players of his generation, and one of the best strikers of all time. [4]
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The final selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the ...
Hugo is a surname and a masculine given name. [1] The English version of the name is Hugh, the Italian version is Ugo. For detailed history and etymology of the name, ...