Oscars 2018 Best Picture nominees illustrated as minimal posters
Netherlands-based designer Chungkong has created graphics to represent some of the movies up for the biggest accolade at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony.
Chungkong produced minimal posters for six of the nine Best Picture 2018 nominees ahead of the 90th Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, on Sunday evening.
The colourful designs are intended to capture the essence of the movies in as little detail as possible. Oriented portrait, each features the movie's title and a director credit at the top, and a summarising quote from the film in smaller text towards the bottom.
Chungkong's poster for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, shows the trio of large advertising boards that the protagonist ? played by Best Actress nominee Frances McDermott ? uses to provoke the local police force in the hope of finding her daughter's murderer.
Director Christopher Nolan's second world war epic Dunkirk is represented by an upside-down helmet rendering in blue-grey tones, matching the film's cinematography.
Another war movie, Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, features the silhouettes of Spitfire aircraft over the clock face on London's Houses of Parliament.
The Shape of Water, a love story by Guillermo del Toro about a mute cleaning lady that falls in love with an aquatic humanoid creature, is depicted with the outlines of their faces covered with bubbles ? all in blue-green shades.
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