Today in Movie Culture: 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Supreme Leader Snoke VFX Breakdown, Best Picture Tributes and More

By Christopher Campbell

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

VFX Breakdown of the Day:

ILM shared another breakdown of their Oscar-nominated effects work for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this one focused on the creation of Supreme Leader Snoke:

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Alternate Posters of the Day:

Designer Eileen Steinbach created alternate posters for all nine of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture:

Here’s my complete #Oscars2018 poster series featuring all the #BestPicture nominees. I hope you like it! pic.twitter.com/0ettUfT2JT

— SG Posters (@SG_Posters) February 27, 2018

Awards Summary of the Day:

Speaking of the Best Picture nominees, Honest Trailers showcases how each one of them should have been marketed:

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Mashup of the Day:

Also speaking of Best Picture contenders, here are a bunch of shots from Call Me By Your Name combined with Claude Monet paintings:

Call me by your name + Monet paintings pic.twitter.com/wUhzsh4RCN

— fofi (@Stockhovlm) February 24, 2018

Film History of the Day:

In honor of Black Panther, Birth.Movies.Death. pays tribute to almost 100 years of black action stars, divided into two videos:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Elizabeth Taylor, who was born on this day in 1932, tests for her breakthrough role in National Velvet in 1944:

Actor in the Spotlight:

The late Robin Williams gets a special tribute honoring the joy he brought moviegoers in this video by Katrin Depp:

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Movie Food of the Day:

In the latest edition of Binging With Babish, learn how to make the tamales from the Oscar-nominated Pixar animated feature Coco:

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Cosplay of the Day:

Most Ghostbusters cosplayers stick to the uniforms and proton packs so it’s cool to see this duo still recognizable as Holtzmann and Gilbert:

Ok but Ghostbusters 2016 is such a fun film & tbh I’m still in love with Holtz.. #tbt the time we threw these cosplays together in like a week because we were so pumped after seeing the film that we just HAD to cosplay asap!! ????#Ghostbusters@GhostbustersNet@paulfeigpic.twitter.com/eI6Fdfm7Fw

— ?jimmy?(seamripper cosplay) (@the_seamripper) February 26, 2018

Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Dark City. Watch the original trailer of the sci-fi cult classic below.

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