The Scorsese film based on a novel by Brian Selznick is Hugo.
Released in 2011, Hugo adapts Selznick's illustrated historical-fiction book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, published in 2007. Asa Butterfield plays Hugo, an orphan who secretly maintains the clocks in Paris's Gare Montparnasse while investigating a mysterious mechanical automaton left by his father.
The story gradually becomes a tribute to Georges Méliès, the pioneering French filmmaker best known for A Trip to the Moon. Scorsese uses Hugo's mystery to introduce audiences to early cinema, practical illusion, hand-painted film effects, and the way important films can be lost and later rediscovered.
Hugo was adapted by screenwriter John Logan and became Scorsese's first major venture into family-oriented adventure cinema. It was also notable for its 3D presentation. At the 2012 Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including awards for cinematography, art direction, visual effects, sound editing, and sound mixing. The book itself won the 2008 Caldecott Medal.