Cool Stuff: Olly Moss Creates Academy-Sponsored ’85 Years of Oscar’ Poster
Posted on Monday, February 11th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
How would you depict every single winner of the Best Picture Oscar, if you had to render each one as a slightly altered version of the well-known Oscar statue?
Artist Olly Moss was tasked with depicting a reference to every single Best Picture on one poster, for the 85 Years of Oscar one-sheet. As you can see from the hint above, he took a fun, and detail-oriented approach to the task. What’s the blank pedestal in the middle? Well, how would you depict A Beautiful Mind? See the full image below.
I worked with the Academy to create the official 85 Years of Oscars poster. The brief was one of the hardest I’ve ever had; find a way to reference every single Best Picture winner from the last 85 years.
Gallery 1988 is behind this effort, and will eventually make the Moss design available as a 27×40″ one-sheet. On the left below is the Moss design; the poster on the right is the official Oscar telecast image via the official Oscars website.
