ShutterStock recently issued a very cool challenge to designers: come up with a poster for one of this year’s Best Picture nominees using only stock imagery as the base, in a series they call Oscar Pop! It’s pretty damn cool. I’m not crazy about American Sniper – it looks like a poster for a Lars von Trier movie – but I think Whiplash looks amazing. Check them out below, and head over to ShutterStock to read the designers’ thoughts behind their designs. (Oh, and sorry in advance, cause these things are huge.)

Thanks to The AV Club for the heads up.

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T. Dawson

Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.

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