The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits.
"They are the unforgettable lines that you hear in everyday conversations, in meetings, at parties, or walking down the street," said Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in a press release. "They tap into what we think and give us great shorthand ways to express how we feel about those things. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then each quote is worth at least 500."
"STELLA!," from Tennesse William's
A Streetcar Named Desire, which premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947 and was later adapted to screen in 1951, made the cut as one of Cinema's most memorable quotes. "Come in, come in! We won't bite you-till we know you better," from Arthur Laurents'
West Side Story, originally playing the Winter Garden Theatre in 1957, and later making it to the screen in 1961, was another Broadway-based feature on the list of famous movie lines.
"Give 'em the old razzle dazzle," is the most recent Hollywood musical quoted on the poster, from the 2002 film
Chicago, based on the
John Kander and
Fred Ebb 1975 musical of the same name. Other stage-to-screen films used for the poster include
The Sound of Music, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, On Golden Pond and
A Few Good Men.
More than 65,000 posters, designed for the Academy by TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angles and photographer Albert Watson, will be distributed worldwide, and will also be available for purchase through March 12, 2007, on the Academy's Web site at
www.oscars.org/publications or by calling 1-800-554-1814.
The 79th Annual Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST, beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment.
Here is a complete list of the quotes used:
"Can't you see I have you Chump? Get me some sviskey!" from "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936
"Sometimes you're so beautiful it just gags me" from "You Can't Take It with You," 1938
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" from "Gone with the Wind," 1939
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" from "The Wizard of Oz," 1939
"I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool" from "Rebecca," 1940
"Rosebud" from "Citizen Kane," 1941
"Here's looking at you, kid" from "Casablanca," 1943
"No, a golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors" from "Going My Way," 1944
"One's too many an'a hundred's not enough!" from "The Lost Weekend," 1945
"I've seen nothing. I should have stayed at home and found out what was really going on" from "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946
"You don't want much. You just want the moon. …with parsley!" from "Gentleman's Agreement," 1947
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" from "Hamlet," 1948
"You throw money around like it was money" from "All the King's Men," 1949
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup" from "Sunset Blvd.,"1950
"STELLA!" from "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951
"Well, what am I? I'm a private no-class dogface. The way most civilians look at that, that's two steps up from nothin'" from "From Here to Eternity," 1953
"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am" from "On the Waterfront," 1954
"An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir" from "Around the World in 80 Days," 1956
"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" from "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957
"Such stupidity is without equal in the entire history of human relations" from "Gigi," 1958
"You can break a man's skull. You can arrest him. You can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?" from "Ben-Hur," 1959
"When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara" from "The Apartment," 1960
"Come in, come in! We won't bite you--till we know you better" from "West Side Story," 1961
"No prisoners! No prisoners!" from "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962
"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will, in a dull man" from "
Tom Jones," 1963
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room" from "Dr. Strangelove," 1964
"The Von Trapp children don't play. They march" from "The Sound of Music," 1965
"Hope that was an empty bottle George! You can't afford to waste good liquor, not on your salary!" from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 1966
"They call me MISTER Tibbs!" from "In the Heat of the Night," 1967
"What we've got here is failure to communicate" from "Cool Hand Luke," 1967
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" from "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969
"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" from "Midnight Cowboy," 1969
"We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose!" from "Patton," 1970
"This is Doyle. I'm sittin' on Frog One" from "The French Connection," 1971
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" from "The Godfather," 1972
"I love it when guys peel out" from "American Graffiti," 1973
"Well, to tell ya the truth, I lied a little" from "Chinatown, 1974
"Hit me, Chief! I got the moves!" from "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975
"Attica! Attica!" from "Dog Day Afternoon," 1975
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" from "Network," 1976
"Follow the money" from "All the President's Men," 1976
"The Force is strong with this one!" from "Star Wars," 1977
"Stanley, ya see this? This is this. This ain't something else. This is this. From now on, you're on your own" from "The Deer Hunter," 1978
"The horror. The horror" from "Apocalypse Now," 1979
"I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man" from "The Elephant Man," 1980
"Wanna dance? Or would you rather just suck face?" from "On Golden Pond," 1981
"E.T. phone home," from "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," 1982
"Who was the best pilot I ever saw? Well, uh, you're lookin' at 'im" from "The Right Stuff," 1983
"Wind in the hair! Lead in the pencil!" from "Terms of Endearment," 1983
"Do I ice 'er? Do I marry 'er?" from "Prizzi's Honor," 1985
"Shut up! Shut up and take the pain! Take the pain!" from "Platoon," 1986
"Snap out of it!" from "Moonstruck," 1987
"Greed is good" from "Wall Street," 1987
"Ten minutes to Wapner" from "Rain Man," 1988
"If you build it, he will come" from "Field of Dreams," 1989
"In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight" from "Pretty Woman," 1990
"Good evening, Clarice" from "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991
"You can't handle the truth!" from "A Few Good Men," 1992
"The truth, Helen, is always the right answer" from "Schindler's List," 1993
"My Momma always said 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get" from "Forrest Gump," 1994
"Show me the money!" from "Jerry Maguire," 1996
"You had me at hello" from "Jerry Maguire," 1996
"I'm the king of the world!" from "Titanic," 1997
"You make me want to be a better man" from "As Good As It Gets," 1997
"Off the record, on the QT, and very Hush-Hush" from "L.A. Confidential," 1997
"I am a dead man and buggered to boot" from "Shakespeare in Love," 1998
"Remember those posters that said 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' Well, that's true of every day except one--the day you die" from "American Beauty," 1999
"My name is Gladiator" from "Gladiator," 2000
"Frodo!" from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001
"Give 'em the old razzle dazzle" from "
Chicago," 2002
"You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause it's banged up a little" from "Seabiscuit," 2003
"Don't jive me, man" from "Ray," 2004
"No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving" from "Sideways," 2004
"I wish I knew how to quit you" from "Brokeback Mountain," 2005
