A Few of the Most Inventive, Creative, and Plain Preposterous For Your Consideration Posters in Recent Years

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We’re knee deep in Oscar season, and while it’s gauche these days to care about who wins or loses, I nevertheless usually get a kick out of some of the For Your Consideration Posters that studios pay exorbitant rates to the trades to run, even though no one reads the trades anymore because they’ve already read everything on Deadline and Slashfilm, who will run the same posters for free. Not that Oscar voters care about For Your Consideration Posters; they just ask themselves, “Which after-party has the most hookers and blow,” and they vote for that studio’s film accordingly. Rich old white men need all the help they can get (shhhhh. It’s because their penises are wrinkly).

Anyway, I gandered around this morning and found a few of the most inventive, creative, and plain preposterous For Your Consideration Posters I could find and I pasted them below for your visual enjoyment (a couple may even be fan-made).

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'Best film supporting an actress's habit'

HAAA.

zeke likes that.

Posted by: zeke the pig at February 1, 2011 11:33 AM

Did High School Musical 3 really try for a best picture award?

Posted by: Paultera at February 1, 2011 11:44 AM

Bah. Can I just vent here? (Yes? Ok, thanks.) I'm SO SICK of Betty White. Well, more accurately, I'm sick of people LOVING Betty White. It reminds me of hipsters (or whatever they were called back in the late 1990s) who were suddenly so into Tom Jones or Wayne Newton or Shatner. Stab stab stab.

Posted by: sars at February 1, 2011 12:00 PM

I saw the Human Centipede one a while ago and I just love the Roger Ebert quote on it. Is it good? Is it bad? Does it matter? Like it's a compliment or something.

Posted by: Jadine at February 1, 2011 12:07 PM

It's ok sars, I just bought a Betty White t-shirt for my 9 y.o. at Kohl's for $2. She didn't know who Betty White is, but she liked the shirt. It will be over soon.

Posted by: Mrs Smith at February 1, 2011 12:13 PM

I have to say, that Ledger one is completely, unironically fucking brilliant.

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at February 1, 2011 12:13 PM

Wait, other than The Dark Knight poster, are any of these real? Because if they are...what the hell?

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at February 1, 2011 12:16 PM

Mrs Smith, does that mean the fridge has been nuked?

I should say that I do genuinely like Betty White, and I'm really happy for her that she's had more work and recognition come her way. I think I just want everybody to get a hold of themselves. I think I'm just becoming old and grumpy.

Posted by: sars at February 1, 2011 12:18 PM

Pssh, we've (hipsters and other obscure pop culture lovers) been liking Betty White since Lake Placid and realizing that Golden Girls is actually a decent show. It's not a new thing to like Betty White and she's not going anywhere

Posted by: KaGe at February 1, 2011 12:27 PM

You do realize that Christopher Guest movie is just titled "For Your Consideration" and does not actually count as a "for your consideration" poster, right? This list is pretty weak. I'd rather see the real for your consideration posters than a mash up of fan made ones and ones that don't apply.

Posted by: valerie at February 1, 2011 12:36 PM

human Centipede should get a special award for Most Disturbing.

Posted by: The Wanderer at February 1, 2011 1:05 PM

Speaking of weak, For Your Consideration was pretty bad. I'm a big fan of Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, but Consideration tried way to hard and was just painful at times.

Posted by: TylerDFC at February 1, 2011 1:08 PM

to hard = too hard.

Before I get pounced upon.

Posted by: TylerDFC at February 1, 2011 1:10 PM

Holy shit, that picture of John C. Reilly made my day.

Posted by: courtcourt at February 1, 2011 1:59 PM

Pssh, we've (hipsters and other obscure pop culture lovers) been liking Betty White since Lake Placid and realizing that Golden Girls is actually a decent show.

Amen to that, KaGe! I've been a fan of Betty White since I was a little kid. It has always been a comforting, funny show for me. That said, she is a bit overexposed lately.

Posted by: lucy at February 1, 2011 2:51 PM

The Robert Downey one is pure genius.

Posted by: John W at February 1, 2011 3:11 PM

Amen to that, KaGe! I've been a fan of Betty White since I was a little kid.

Well, fine, there are genuine Betty White/Golden Girls fans out there. And, again, good for Ms. White. But I'd be very surprised if this sorta-recent Egyptian-sized crowd of support for Ms. White was largely free of camp/irony/hipsterism.

Posted by: sars at February 1, 2011 4:19 PM

So...these are real things?

Posted by: ZombieNurse at February 1, 2011 4:38 PM

The Toy Story 3 poster is actually real, for the record. Pixar gets the oscar for best 'best picture' campaign.

Posted by: LB at February 1, 2011 5:21 PM

There are way too many puns going on in that Lohan one. I love it.

Posted by: schrome at February 1, 2011 7:18 PM

Golden Girls? Posers! I've been a fan since the Mary Tyler Moore show.

Posted by: LwoodPDowd at February 2, 2011 12:04 AM

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A Few of the Most Inventive, Creative, and Plain Preposterous For Your Consideration Posters in Recent Years

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