The Scorsese film that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 2012 ceremony was Hugo. The award went to cinematographer Robert Richardson for his richly detailed visual design of the film’s 1930s Paris setting.
Hugo was released in 2011, but the 84th Academy Awards took place on February 26, 2012, which explains the date in the question. The film received 11 Oscar nominations, the most of any movie that year, and won five awards: Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects.
The film stars Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret, an orphan living inside a Paris railway station, and Ben Kingsley as pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès. Hugo was Scorsese’s first film shot in 3D and served as both a family adventure and a tribute to the origins of cinema. A common mix-up is confusing its cinematography Oscar with Scorsese’s Best Director win for The Departed in 2007.