With the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony just under two weeks away, the movie blogging community is going rabid with their predictions. Here at Cut Print Review, however, we’ve kept quite on the subject, as down here in Australia we don’t get to see many of the Oscar nominated films until the weeks leading up to the ceremony, and often, after it. Now that I’ve had a chance to see most of the films nominated, I thought it was about time to chime in with my predictions.

As a member of the Online Film Critics Society — the largest organisation for critics whose work appears primarily on the Internet — I recently submitted my votes for our 2009 film awards. Below is the final list of nominees, which I must say is a good looking bunch. I’ll keep my votes close to my chest until the winners are announced, which takes place on January 6, 2010. Stay tuned!

Movie posters have the power to make or break a films success at the box office, so it’s important to get it right.

However, designing a poster that is striking, attractive and, most importantly, makes you want to see the movie being advertised is no easy task. Yet these ten posters from 2009 were able to rise above medicority and do exactly that. While on page two, we show the other end of the spectrum and poke fun at the posters that seriously missed the mark.