A Year in Shadows: Vol 40

And so the 40th year of Shadows on the Wall wraps as another 51 covers have been published over the past year, featuring these films in order: Good Grief, Poor Things, The Holdovers, All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, The Iron Claw, Bob Marley: One Love, Wicked Little Letters, Dune: Part Two, Drive-Away Dolls, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Mothers' Instinct, Io Capitano, Back to Black, The Book of Clarence, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, IF, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Young Woman and the Sea, The Dead Don't Hurt, Inside Out 2, The Bikeriders, Kinds of Kindness, Unicorns, Fly Me to the Moon, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Kneecap, Borderlands, Alien: Romulus, The Substance, Black Dog, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Critic, Transformers One, Megalopolos, Joker: Folie à Deux, We Live in Time, The Wild Robot, Emilia Pérez, Anora, Paddington in Peru, Wicked: Part I, Maria, Nightbitch, Kraven the Hunter, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and Better Man, plus the Oscar cover. Of course, full-sized versions of these covers have been posted here on the blog throughout the year.

Trivia alert!

Appearing on multiple covers this year were Aaron Taylor-Johnson (one solo and one shared), Olivia Colman (2 shared), Ryan Reynolds (2 shared) and Zendaya (2 shared). Two others appeared once as themselves and once as an animated character they voice:  Emily Blunt (unicorn) and Scarlett Johansson (robot).

Getting a cover all to themselves:  Marisa Abela, Amy Adams, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Karla Sofía Gascón, Angelina Jolie, Mikey Madison,Ian McKellan,Jason Patel, Jesse Plemons, Daisy Ridley, Seydou Sarr, LaKeith Stanfield, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jeffrey Wright and Demi Moore, who shares her cover with herself. 

Sharing a cover with costars: Freya Allen, Antonio Banderas, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Hugh Bonneville, Jesse Buckley, Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Jessica Chastain, Jodie Comer, Carrie Coon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Harris Dickinson, Adam Driver, Winston Duke, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Zac Efron, Nathalie Emmanuel, Cynthia Erivo, Mike Faist, Cailey Fleming, Lady Gaga, Andrew Garfield, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Gosling, Mckenna Grace, Ariana Grande, Ariana Greenblatt, Madeleine Harris, Kevin Hart, Anne Hathaway, Chris Hemsworth, Lachy Hulme, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel Joslin, Michael Keaton, Logan Kim, Vicky Krieps, Dan Levy, Paul Mescal, Viggo Mortensen, Emily Mortimer, Florian Munteanu, Ruth Negga, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Celeste O'Connor, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Jenna Ortega, Eddie Peng, Himesh Patel, Glen Powell, Florence Pugh, Margaret Qualley, Anthony Ramos, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Archie Renaux, Ryan Reynolds, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Winona Ryder, Andrew Scott, Dominic Sessa, Stanley Simons, Cailee Spaeny, Emma Stone, Channing Tatum, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hannah Waddingham, Julie Walters, Jeremy Allen White, Finn Wolfhard and Zendaya.

Appearing as an animated character they voiced: Lewis Black (emotion), Emily Blunt (unicorn), Steve Carrell (furball), Kit Connor (goose), Ayo Edebiri (emotion), Adèle Exarchopoulos (emotion), Tony Hale (emotion), Paul Walter Hauser (emotion), Maya Hawke (emotion), Scarlett Johansson (robot), Keegan-Michael Key (robot), Liza Lapira (emotion), Lupita Nyong'o (robot), Pedro Pascal (fox), Amy Poehler (emotion), Reece Shearsmith (gnome), Phyllis Smith (emotion), Owen Teague (ape), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (doll), Ben Whishaw (bear), Ben Whitehead (inventor), Robbie Williams (monkey).

The most crowded covers: Paddington in Peru and Inside Out 2 with 9 each.

And finally, here are three outtake covers that were designed but never used: Kung Fu Panda (which was bumped by the Oscar cover), Broken Bird (which opened FrightFest but was bumped for closing film The Substance) and My Old Ass (bumped by Megalopolis).