Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:28 am
I just noticed one for The Godfather Part III from 1991, advertising the Oscar nominations.
Fascinating, I actually remember many of these.
The oldest ad seems to be from 1927 advertising The Jazz Singer with a small ad for The Student Prince in Old Heidleberg off to the side. The newest, An Officer and a Gentleman in 1983 after the 1982 Oscar nominations were announced.
Many of the 3os and 40s films were from reissues in the mid-50s when it was common for major films to be given major re-releases. One of the ads for Gone With the Wind is as late as 1974.
Note on page 14 that The Brave One, discussed just today in another thread, may have been an Oscar winner but it was such a non-hit that when it made it to neighborhood theatres it was as a second feature to a re-issue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.