Comments on: 2008 Key Art Award Winners

By: Digital Diva

Digital Diva — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:25 +0000

Screw the Keyart Awards.. It’s the studios marketing departments stroking themselves . They dont even mention the designers anymore, who create some of the most artistically groundbreaking & amazing posters/dvds in the initial rounds of creative exploration, that marketing waters down & destroys.

By: Poster Guy

Poster Guy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:35 +0000

Interesting post. I never heard of wither set of awards before. I find the world of movie posters fascinating.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:37:20 +0000

I agree that this was a great post. It’s funny though, I took away the opposite impression of your post as Matt R. The stuff you’re talking about is exactly why I find both the Key Art Awards and monkeyartawards.com annoying. I happen to like what I do for a living and could do without being called a “fucking asshole” by a guy who’s being honored for “inspiring” what is now a formula for comedy posters (as if he really had anything to do with it — give the award to Crew if you need to honor somebody).

The Key Art Awards seem to be more dedicated to making fun of, or outright insulting, movie marketing than they are honoring it. Why bother? The same is true with the monkeyartawards They expend as much, probably more, energy insulting the profession and clients then the Key Arts do. So while I’d agree that the Key Art Awards are a lame event, the monkeyartawards arnt’t cool for making fun of them, they’re actually also lame for the very same reasons.

By: Matt R.

Matt R. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:50:41 +0000

Great post! That’s why I like monkeyartawards.com, they really go after the marketing veeps… they summed up Apatow’s remark by saying:
“We assume he means that, upon completion of the circle, he is back to thinking you are all f***ing a**holes again.”