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The Hollywood Reporter announced the nominees for The 36th Annual Key Art Awards. This year there are 34 award categories, covering film posters, movie trailers, packaging, outdoor advertising, theatrical standees, print ads, home entertainment and more. New film advertising categories were added for horror, animation and documentary movie posters, along with the (long overdue) web site design category.
“We retooled the awards this year to better reflect what movies are in theaters and where people are watching their advertising,” said Bob Israel, chairman of the Key Art Awards advisory board and executive producer of the show. “And we’re keeping an eye on the growing role of nontraditional media and how it’s being used for marketing.”
For the second year in a row, film studio Lionsgate leads the field among Key Art Awards nominees, which just goes to show you that we are not the only ones who devote too much attention to the studio’s marketing efforts. The most popular film nominees are Little Miss Sunshine, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and Borat, with each scoring seven nominations. (It’s good to see our own choice for the movie poster of the year earned a Key Art Award nomination in the Drama posters category.)
The Hollywood Report’s Key Art Awards ceremony will be held June 15 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, with actor-comedian Rob Corddry as host.
The 2007 Key Art Awards movie poster nominees:
ACTION-ADVENTURE POSTERS
Crank
Superman Returns
Poseidon
Apocalypto
V for Vendetta
ANIMATION POSTERS
A Scanner Darkly
Renaissance
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Monster House
Cars
COMEDY POSTERS
Running With Scissors
Borat
Thank You for Smoking
Nacho Libre
Little Miss Sunshine
DRAMA POSTERS
Clean
Hard Candy
Little Children
Pan’s Labyrinth
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
HORROR POSTERS
Descent
Saw III
The Hills Have Eyes
Pulse
Saw III
TEASER POSTERS
Hostel
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion
Crank
Borat
V for Vendetta
INTERNATIONAL POSTERS
The Black Dahlia
Borat: Teaser
Borat: Teaser
The Prestige
Paris je t’aime
Have a favorite in the movie poster categories? Share your predictions for the winners in our comments section. To see the complete list of 2007 Key Art Award nominees visit The Hollywood Reporter.
Besides Hard Candy, my faves here are: Nacho Libre, Little Miss Sunshine, Madea’s Family Reunion, and Paris je t’aime. The Prestige poster gives me vertigo, and some of the Vendetta posters were well done, I recall. Actually, that Crank teaser is pretty good, now that I look at it.
Comment posted by Cardinal Fang on 05/25/07 2:51 PM.Our picks for the winners in each movie poster category:
ACTION-ADVENTURE POSTER
V for Vendetta
ANIMATION POSTER
Renaissance
COMEDY POSTER
Running With Scissors
DRAMA POSTER
Hard Candy
HORROR POSTER
The Hills Have Eyes
TEASER POSTER
V for Vendetta
INTERNATIONAL POSTER
Comment posted by admin on 05/27/07 6:22 PM.Paris je t’aime
I’m not a big fan of the Renaissance or Running with Scissors posters - there’s not much to choose from in the animation category, granted, but I’ll have to agree to disagree with you in the comedy category.
I’d certainly like to hear why you chose The Hills have Eyes in horror - I’m not sure what I’d choose, but it wouldn’t be that.
Comment posted by Cardinal Fang on 05/28/07 8:30 PM.My favorites
ACTION-ADVENTURE POSTER
V for Vendetta
ANIMATION POSTER
Monster House, but not a huge fan of any of them
COMEDY POSTER
Little Miss Sunshine
DRAMA POSTER
Hard Candy
HORROR POSTER
Descent
TEASER POSTER
V for Vendetta, Family reunion is cool too.
INTERNATIONAL POSTER
Comment posted by armuss on 05/31/07 8:59 AM.Paris je t’aime
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