The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) has announced nominations for the 11th Annual LMGI Awards set for Saturday, August 24, at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. The LMGI Awards honor the outstanding and creative visual contributions by location professionals in film, television, commercials, and film commissions from around the globe.
The LMGI Awards welcomed a record number of submissions from around the world, each uniquely demonstrating how locations enrich the art of filmmaking.
THE NOMINEES FOR THE 11th ANNUAL LMGI AWARDS ARE:
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES
- “Fargo” – Season 5 – FX
- “The Gentlemen” – Netflix
- “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” – Amazon
- “Reservation Dogs” – Season 3 – FX
- “Slow Horses” – Season 3 – Apple TV +
- “Sugar” – Apple TV+
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD TELEVISION SERIES
- “Bridgerton” – Season 3 – Netflix
- “The Crown”- Season 6 – Netflix
- “Fallout” – Amazon
- “The Gilded Age” – Season 2 – HBO l Max
- “Palm Royale” – Apple TV+
- “Tokyo Vice” – Season 2 – HBO l Max
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A TV SERIAL PROGRAM, ANTHOLOGY OR LIMITED SERIES
- “Baby Reindeer” – Netflix
- “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” – FX
- “Griselda” – Netflix
- “Masters of the Air” – Apple TV+
- “Ripley” – Netflix
- “True Detective: Night Country” – HBO l Max
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
- “Civil War” – A24
- “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning”- Part One – Paramount Pictures
- “Saltburn” – Netflix
- “The Fall Guy” – Universal Pictures
- “The Killer” – Netflix
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD FEATURE FILM
- “Dune: Part Two” – Warner Bros.
- “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” – Warner Bros.
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Apple Studios/Paramount Pictures
- “Napoleon” – Apple Studios/Columbia Pictures
- “Oppenheimer” – Universal Pictures
- “The Zone of Interest” – A24
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A COMMERCIAL
- Carhartt – “History in The Making”
- Coca Cola – “Santa Stories – The Note”
- NFL Super Bowl LV111 – “Born to Play”
- Tesla – “Cybertruck”
- Toyota – “Present from The Past”
OUTSTANDING FILM COMMISSION
- City of Sydney & Screen NSW – “The Fall Guy”
- Film in Iceland – “True Detective: Night Country”
- Glasgow Film Office – “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
- New Mexico Film Office – “Oppenheimer”
- The Oklahoma Film + Music Office and the Tulsa Office of Film – “Killers of the Flower Moon”
- The Royal Film Commission – Jordan – “Dune: Part Two”
Supervising location manager Sue Quinn (“Fantastic Beasts,” and the “Harry Potter” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchises) will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honor. Recipients of the Trailblazer, Humanitarian and the Eva Monley Awards will be announced soon.
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN's slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV's pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV's 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL's opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV's service.
Financial details of Disney's new deal with DirecTV weren't disclosed as part of Saturday's announcement. DirecTV's payments to Disney will be based on "market-based" pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney's video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN's forthcoming direct-to-consumer... Read More