Movie Poster Award Nominees
The Hollywood Reporter has announced the nominees for The 37th Annual Key Art Awards. The 2008 Key Art Awards will honor achievements in movie marketing in different categories including film posters, movie trailers, print ads, DVD packaging, new media and more. Film advertising agency BLT & Associates took the lead among agencies with 18 nominations. Director Judd Apatow will receive the Visionary Award, recognizing a filmmaker who inspires movie marketers. (The main Apatow inspiration seems to be the recent trend of the “Sears Portrait Studio” look in comedy film posters.)
“The goal is to honor the best work that is done in movie marketing, and the quality of the work that is done in this area gets better and better every year and moves into new areas every year,” said Bob Israel, chairman of the Key Art Awards Advisory Board and executive producer of the show.
Changes to the awards this year include Action/Adventure and Horror movie posters being combined into a single category, the elimination of the Teaser poster category, and the expansion of “New Media” categories.
Some of the 2008 Key Art Awards movie poster nominees:
ACTION/ADVENTURE/HORROR POSTERS
28 Weeks Later
The Number 23
Grindhouse
30 Days of Night
Vacancy
COMEDY POSTERS
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Superbad
Juno
Blades of Glory
The Darjeeling Limited
DRAMA POSTERS
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Black Snake Moan
I’m Not There
Zodiac
Premonition
FAMILY POSTERS
Shrek the Third
Ratatouille
Bee Movie
Surf’s Up
Alvin and the Chipmunks
The Hollywood Reporter’s Key Art Awards ceremony will be held on June 13 hosted by actor-comedian Jeff Garlin at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City, CA.
Share your favorite picks from the nominees in the comments section. To see the complete list of 2008 Key Art Award nominees visit The Hollywood Reporter.
You, good sirs, are too, too kind to THR Key Art Awards.
We, on the other hand, have actually swum in the shark-infested waters:
http://www.monkeyartawards.com/
I just checked out monkeyartawards.com. It kind of sucks. Obviously a fair amount of work went into it but it’s not really funny. What kind of person spends that kind of time mocking something she says she doesn’t care about? She’s clearly spent more time obsessing about the awards than the “overly emotional, deeply delusional types” she’s making fun of. Takes one to know one, I guess. Just seems like a big waste of time.
whether or not you find the site funny is a matter of taste.(I did.) but it seemed to be written by an insider who was making fun of the movie poster business in a Dilbert comic strip sort of way.
monkeyartawards is pretty funny. I think. I like how all the marketing people are called “weenies”. So true.
The Key arts blows. Skipped categories which cost the same amount of money to enter, the jokes are about how everyone there is an arsehole and then they say hey lets celebrate that. I came to honor those who have had their work recognized and i left short-changed and disgusted. filed under lame.