With days to go before the 87th Annual Academy Awards, it's time for what’s become an annual tradition for the Shutterstock design team. Each year, we challenge our designers to create Pop Art-inspired posters for the Best Picture nominees using Shutterstock assets, and each year poses a wonderful set of problems to solve.
This seems to be the year of the individual, with personal stories of triumph, heartbreak, and determination holding strong throughout the list of nominated films — from the story of America’s most prolific sniper to the struggles of one of the most important men in Civil Rights history.
They, along with the complex characters from all the other Best Picture nominees, are hard enough to distill in a few images, but trying to add some light and levity to the topics was a challenge our team was glad to tackle. Check out the results below, along with insight on each poster's Pop Art inspiration, and tell us what you think in the comments!