Introducing Movieline's Awards-Season Trading Cards: Collect Them All!
From swag suites to swank dinners, awards-season darlings are never wanting for cool free stuff this time of year. But what do you get out of the mix, dear reader, besides a slew of print and TV ads reminding you how freaking great The Social Network is? Or videos pitting James Franco against the world? This has to change. To wit: Who wants some Awards-Season Trading Cards, courtesy of Movieline?
In the spirit and style of 1983 Topps baseball cards, here come the true reward of the Oscar hunt: 25 cards recognizing each of the nominees in the directing and acting categories. Each comes with helpful biographical and filmographic details to share with your friends; they're not quite tradeable at this time, but save your favorite nominees and maybe they'll be worth something 15 or 20 years from now. I mean, face it: Hailee Steinfeld's rookie card isn't going to lose value any time soon, right?
To start off with, however, let's clip and save Best Actor nominee Colin Firth. And return tomorrow -- and every weekday until the Feb. 27 Oscarcast -- for a daily glimpse at the latest nominee immortalized where it counts.
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Comments
Hot diggity daffodil! I can't wait to print my James Franco card up, then someday meet him and have him do something weird and meta and performance art based with it!
"Mr. Bridges? would you mind signing this for me, please? And could you make it out to The Dude? That'd be so awesome!"
Ummm... seriously, are you guys going to be producing these? I'd totally buy a set... my wife would go crazy... these need to be made and either sold or given away. Not joking, there is a market for these and a yearly set featuring nominees would be a brilliant idea.
Just curious, why was my previous comment posted, then deleted? I was dead serious and thought it was a useful comment. Didn't know I was going to be censored...
Sorry about that, Sam! No one deleted anything; it somehow got picked up by our spam filter. I went looking for it and have since restored it. Apologies again, thanks for the kind words! And... no, we will not be physically producing them, alas.
Drat! Spam filtered again! Hate when that happens...
Drat again! Foiled again! Well, they are pretty sweet looking cards. As an avid card collector (baseball mainly) and with a wife who is quite the movie buff, we would LOVE a set like this! They look great, are topical and fill a gap in the collecting hobby world. Topps should pay attention to what you're doing here. I only wish I was employed in the industry!!!! I'd make this happen!