While I was on the subject of contemporary film posters (see latest post 25 February 2013) I thought I would share some more of my favourite film poster designs of the recent (and not so recent) past:

1984 Amadeus

1988 Imagine

1988 The Last Temptation of Christ

1991 The Silence of the Lambs

1999 Being John Malkovich

2000 Small Time Crooks

2002 Catch Me If You Can

2005 Walk the Line

2006 Little Miss Sunshine

2007 Cashback

2008 Birds of America

2009 Breaking Upwards

2009 Afghan Star

2009 Milton Glaser. To Inform and Delight

2009 The White Ribbon

2010 A Little Death

2010 Black Swan

2010 Black Swan

2010 Dinner for Schmucks

2010 Happy Tears

2010 Eat, Pray, Love

2010 The Last Play at Shea

2011 Bad Posture

2011 Albert Nobbs

2011 All In - The Poker Movie

2011 Elena

2011 Granito

2011 Shame

2011 Pariah

2011 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

2012 Django Unchained

2012 Casa de mi Padre

2012 Bully

2012 Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present

2012 The Capsule

2012 The Magic Life

2012 V-H-S

2012 Lincoln

 In recognition of yesterday's 2013 Oscar Awards, and Daniel Day Lewis' historic third Best Actor Oscar, I thought I'd take a look at some contemporary (and one or two not so contemporary) film posters.

I have quite an extensive digital archive of film posters and will put together some themes on here from time to time in the future. I like the fact that a simple, strong, monochromatic design was used for the Lincoln poster, and have put together a group of other minimal, monochromatic (for the most part) designs that I like.

There is often more than one version of a film poster (and has been throughout the history of film posters). The next one here is an 'alternative' poster for Zero Dark Thirty, another 2013 Oscar nominee:

2012 Zero Dark Thirty

1976 Rocky

1977 Eraserhead

1981 Gallipoli

1999 The Blair Witch Project

2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2002 American Ganster

2002 American Ganster

2002 Duets

2004 Criminal

2004 I, Robot

2005 Gypo

2006 Blood Diamond

2006 Madea's Family Reunion

2006 Stranger Than Fiction

2008 Doubt

2008 The Universe of Keith Haring

2009 Madea Goes to Jail

2009 Moon

2009 Rage

2010 Athlete

2010 Buried

2010 Catfish

2010 Leaves of Grass

2010 Repo Men

2010 Lake Mungo

2010 The Scenesters

2011 Elevator

2012 Bert Stern - Original Madman

2012 My Week With Marilyn