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Tavis Coburn's Gorgeous BAFTA 'Best Film' Retro Poster Set

by Alex Billington
February 24, 2010
Source: Dutch Uncle

Whoa! Everyone knows I love a good poster, but these are phenomenal. Apparently BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts), who just announced this year's winners of their awards earlier this week, commissioned illustrator Tavis Coburn of Dutch Uncle to create a series of new posters for each of the five Best Film nominees from 2009 (which were: Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Precious, and Up in the Air). It's becoming increasingly popular to create stylized posters like this and we've seen some great ones recently (like the Quentin Tarantino series). But these posters are incredible, take a look below!

Along the left side of each it says Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010. I owe credit to In Contention for first discovering these. However, the images above all come from Tavis Coburn's portfolio on the Dutch Uncle website. Guy Lodge is right about one thing - these are definitely a lot better than the fairly unimpressive official Oscar poster for this year. I especially love the poster for An Education (on the top row right side), it just looks totally gorgeous and it's also perfectly representative of the movie itself. Now if only Duncan Jones' Moon had received a nomination, I would've loved to see how that poster would've looked!

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YK

Stunning. The Hurt Locker piece is my fave.
wow

Those are wonderful, they would make great prints on hang on my wall.
NYF

The precious one makes her look fat.
Al

She is fat. An Education fits best because it takes place in a time when these types of posters were common. I like them all though.
http://www.bradnewsoftheday.com Brad

I want that Hurt Locker poster!
leinergroove

Some of the coolest retro posters i've seen in a long time! But... Why in the "Up in the air" poster, George Clooney seems to have the urgent need of some Preparation H?? That walk is not right at all! It's unnatural!! haha
TediusTed

Very cool!!
dex

i like em all except AVATAR , it looks weird.
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Wow! These are beautiful! Really well-done!
Evo

Great posters!!! I like the Hurt Locker one as well. Makes me think of 2001:A Space Odyssey. I agree w/ #6, looks like George is in dire need of a Men's room....
Film Fan

I thought "The Hurt Locker" was "Moon" before I opened the link. And the person playing soccer in the reflection of the helmet cracked me up.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2408/blackbabyjesus.gif Crapola

Precious and Hurt Locker for sures, saw them somewhere else, really good.
underscore

What the hell are these? These weren't used or put up anywhere in London.
Scotty97

@ #3, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA. You see, it's funny because she's fat ,get it get? Come on guys....