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Academy Awards

See the 2016 Best Picture nominees as pop art posters

Hoai-Tran Bui
USATODAY
Basically, imagine if Andy Warhol made the posters for these movies.

If the posters for the Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscars were to hang in a museum, what would they look like?

Shutterstock posed this question to their contributors, creating a contest for pop art-inspired posters for the best films of 2015, according to the Academy Awards. The final winners, which were announced on Shutterstock's blog Thursday, were inspired by everything from Andy Warhol to newspaper collages. The contest is an annual series continued from last year.

Check out the final products below:

Bridge of Spies

"Mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags...represents how both countries were tied to their individuals’ principles of justice," the artist says.

Brooklyn

"I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting," the artist says.

Mad Max: Fury Road

"'Mad Max: Fury Road' has the same effect (as Andy Warhol): The stylized nature of the film gets more attention than the meaning behind it," the artist says.

Room

"Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection," the artist says.

Spotlight

"I found that the perfectly contradictory homophone 'pray/prey' encapsulates the shock and horror felt by the community when this scandal was made public," the artist says.

The Big Short

"'The Big Short' takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster," the artist says.

The Martian

"I felt this style would parallel the vicious storm that left Mark Watney for dead on Mars," the artist says.

The Revenant

"For my poster, a homage to 'The Revenant,' I assembled pieces to create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape," the artist says.

 

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