Nominations for the 2012 Oscars were announced Tuesday morning. Hugo leads with 11 nominations. (PHOTO: Paramount Pictures)

Eleven.

That's the number of nominations Martin Scorsese and Hugo received for the 84th annual Academy Awards, which were announced early Tuesday morning.

Scorsese's 3-D love letter to cinema leads this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Directing, Music (Original Score) and Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

Close behind Hugo is the French darling The Artist with 10 nominations, including Best Actor (Jean Dujardin), Best Supporting Actress (Berenice Bejo) and Best Picture.

Meanwhile, Glenn Close is going for magic number six. The Albert Nobbs actress is nominated for the sixth time of her career, up against Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis and Michelle Williams. Close, who received her very first nomination in 1983 for The World According to Garp, has never won.

Here are the 2012 Oscar nominations, by the numbers:

11 The number of nominations for Hugo, the most received by any picture

2 The nominations for George Clooney (Best Actor in The Descendants and Best Screenplay for The Ides of March)

2 The number of times the crowd at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills cheered, for each time Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close received a nomination (Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture).

$205 million The worldwide box office take-in for The Help, the most out of all nine films up for Best Picture this year. In last place is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ($10 million), which was in limited release until just last week.

$801 million The combined total worldwide box office gross of all nine films up for Best Picture. That's less than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which grossed more than $1.3 billion

78 Christopher Plummer's age when he received his first Oscar nomination, for 2009's The Last Station, in which he played Leo Tolstoy. Plummer, now 82, lost the award to Christoph Waltz that year (Inglourious Basterds).

2 The number of nominations Plummer has received, including this year's nod for Best Supporting Actor in Beginners.

8 The number of films Jessica Chastain starred in in the last 12 months (including The Tree of Life, Take Shelter and The Debt). Chastain is nominated for The Help (Best Supporting Actress).

5 The number of Oscar nominations Glenn Close has received in her career (The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons). She has never won. Her sixth nomination is for this year's Albert Nobbs (Best Actress).

2 The number of nominees in the Music (Original Song) category: Man or Muppet from The Muppets and Real in Rio from RIO. The 83rd Academy Awards had four songs up for the prize.

26 Rooney Mara's age. She is nominee in the Best Actress category this year, in the company of Glenn Close (64), Meryl Streep (62), Viola Davis (46) and Michelle Williams (31).

33 The number of days left before the big show with host Billy Crystal on Sunday, Feb. 26.

For a full list of nominees, visit the official Oscar Web site.