FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (EYES) ONLY - Skyfall stakes on Oscar

After a wave of increasing acclaims and breaking box office records to the point of surpassing GOLDFINGER (the second most succesful Bond film after THUNDERBALL, inflation adjusted), the 50th anniversary Bond film, SKYFALL is now making his way to the Academy Awards. EON and Sony released the classic "For Your Consideration" posters anouncing their sumbition for each Oscar category. 

The James Bond films have had some nomination troughout its half-century on the silver screen. The last one was in the 1981 Oscars when Sheena Easton's song for FOR YOUR EYES ONLY was nominated and was even sung by the singer in the ceremony with a musical scketch that included Bond alumni like the immortal Richard Kiel (Jaws) and Harold Sakata (Oddjob). Still, it lost to ARTHUR's theme. 

If SKYFALL is nominated and is lucky enough to win, it'll be the first time since 1965 when John Stears won the Best Visual Effects Oscar award  THUNDERBALL.

The Award Nomination Ceremony will be held on January 10th, 2013 and the event will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on February 24th.

Thanks to MI6-HQ.com for the head-ups.

ANOTHER NEW SKYFALL POSTER FOR THE UK MARKET RELEASED

After last week's release of the US One Sheet SKYFALL poster featuring the artwork seen in cardboard standees around the world, EON prodcutions has revealed the artwork of which is likely the definitive theatrical poster for the golden anniversary James Bond film. Like the first teaser poster released in May, it features the gunbarrel logo on the background, but this time we can get a glimpse of the city of London through it. Daniel Craig is this time seen in tuxedo (with a done bow-tie unlike the poster design for CASINO ROYALE) and holding his Walther PPK.

What do we think? actually, it's nice to see a poster screaming BOND, but here it's done in a very tacky way, with crappy cut-and-paste montages. We find the "Bond shooting in the floor" poster a lot better.

GOLDENEYE RARE CONCEPT ART PUBLISHED

The recently released book "James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters", features a concept art of what might have been the theatrical poster artwork for GOLDENEYE. It shows Bond surrounded by Xenia and Natalya (in totally different poses than in the final designs) plus the 007 gun logo as well as the image of Pierce Brosnan running and the Severnaya MIG planes, which get a more prominent ubication than in the final result.

Thanks to Marcos Kontze from James Bond Brasil for the scans.

WIN A GOLDENEYE POSTER SIGNED BY THE PRODUCERS

The official 007 Twitter account (twitter.com/007) has opened the usual weekly signed poster contest for GOLDENEYE.

By tweeting an imaginative message, or posting photo related to the film, you can win an A3 reproduction of the GOLDENEYE poster signed by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

Good luck!

GOLDENEYE POSTER MADE IT INTO THE ROYAL STAMPS SELECTION!

Thanks to all the Bond fans who picked the GOLDENEYE poster between their 10 favourites to be included in a Royal Stamp 50th anniversary commemorative sheet, the poster has been finally included in 5th place, with the 5.40% of the votes, right after CASINO ROYALE (7.03%), FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (6.12%), DR. NO (5.83%), and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (5.82%).

The stamp sheet will be released May 1st, 2012.