In our fourth and final week of our Best Pictures series, we celebrate the based-on-a-true-story brilliance of Philomena. Nominated for four Academy Awards, Philomena is really a tale of two cities. One is Limerick, Ireland, where a pregnant young woman’s story begins. The other is Washington D.C., nearly 50 years later, where the search for…
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A well-done opening title sequence can be a beautiful place where filmmaking and graphic design come together. Title typography should be considered a moment in design history. Sure, all of the Oscar nominees were released in theaters, but how many will survive for years to come as works of art? With the 2014 Academy Awards…
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In the third celebratory week of our Best Pictures series, we look up, way up, to Gravity. The jaw-dropping effects. The cuticle-tearing suspense. The acrobatic work of Sandra Bullock. Yes, all of these factors helped earn Gravity an eye-popping ten Oscar nominations. Inspired by the film, we explored our collection of out-of-this-world images and found…
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We’re kicking off Week 2 of our Best Pictures photo series with The Wolf of Wall Street. A tale of ambition, excess, and ever-dwindling value systems, Wolf is up for five nominations, including Best Picture. We searched through our entire collection of images, and came up with a gallery grand enough to do Martin Scorsese’s…
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