A new poster of this year's Oscar Awards. [Photo/Mtime]

ABC has released eight new posters of this year's Academy Awards, just before the nominations announcement on Thursday.

Past Oscar winners such as Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Ben Affleck can be seen in the posters, clutching their awards, and in the case of Jamie Foxx, kissing the golden statuettes.

Two promotion video have been unveiled along with the posters.

In a 30-second promo, clips from this year's biggest hits and likely contenders have been displayed, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Joy, The Martian, Steve Jobs and more.

In the second video, this year's Oscar host Chris Rock pours lots of powder onto his clammy hand, as the clouds of powder dust fading away at the end of the clip, he declares "Let's do this".

This year's Oscar show will theme in "We All Dream in Gold".

John Krasinski, Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, and Academy president Cheryl Isaacs will announce the nominations tomorrow.

The 88th Academy Awards are set to kick off in Los Angeles on Feb 28.