The 79th Academy Awards commemorative poster (AP)

Los Angeles, Dec. 20 (AP): The new Oscar poster was unfurled yesterday, and there are lines everywhere. Famous lines from 70 years of famous films.

“I’m the king of the world!” (Titanic)

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” (Network)

“I’m ready for my close-up.' (Sunset Boulevard)

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (Gone With The Wind)

“Here’s looking at you, kid.” (Casablanca)

They are among the quotes sharing space with the Oscar statuette on the 79th Annual Academy Awards poster.

“What we have is a failure to communicate,” joked Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, taking a line from the Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke. He told Associated Press Television the idea of movie lines stood out among the dozens of potential Oscar poster concepts.

“We saw it in rough (form) and thought, ‘There’s an idea.’ ...‘Yes, the force is strong with this one’ (Star Wars).”

All but one of the lines were from films that received an Academy Award nomination for best picture, writing or both from 1936 to 2005.

“And, of course, we had to include what is probably the most-quoted movie line, ‘I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,’” Ganis said of the famous Godfather comment.

The poster employs a black canvas, with the quotes in gold metallic — each in a typeface in the spirit of the film from which it came.