The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has announced nominees for the 53rd Annual ICG Publicists Awards Luncheon to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, February 26.
The nominees for the Les Mason Award, the highest honor that publicists can bestow on one of their own members, are:
• Elaine LaZelle, Walt Disney Studios
• Sheryl Main, Unit Publicist
• Maureen O’Malley, Warner Bros. Pictures International
• Nina Turner, Buena Vista Pictures/Walt Disney Studios
• Murray Weissman, Weissman/Markovitz Communications
The nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Publicists Showmanship Motion Picture Award are:
• 20th Century Fox for The Martian
• Columbia Pictures for Goosebumps
• Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Universal Pictures for Straight Outta Compton
• Walt Disney Studios for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Warner Bros. Pictures for Mad Max: Fury Road
The nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Publicists Showmanship Television Award are:
• 20th Century Fox Television for American Horror Story: Hotel
• 20th Century Fox Television for Empire
• 20th Century Fox Television for Fresh off the Boat
• Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television for Supergirl
• CBS Television Studios for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Warner Bros. Television for Blindspot
The nominees for the Press Award are:
• Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY
• Jess Cagle, People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly
• Mike Fleming Jr., Deadline.com
• Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly
• Rob Moynihan, TV Guide
The nominees for the International Media Award are:
• Nelson Aspen, Australia
• Dan Jolin, UK
• Elisabeth Sereda, Austria
• Noel de Souza, India
• Yuko Yoshikawa, Japan
The nominees for the Excellence in Unit Still Photography for Motion Pictures Award are:
• Jaap Buitendijk
• Murray Close
• Andrew Schwartz
• Merie Wallace
• Barry Wetcher
The nominees for the Excellence in Unit Still Photography for Television Award are:
• Richard Cartwright
• Chuck Hodes
• Bill Inoshita
• Neil Jacobs
As previously announced, Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films will receive the Motion Picture Showmanship Award. The Television Showmanship Award goes to John Landgraf, FX Networks CEO, and a Special Award of Merit will be presented to famed lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Still to be announced is the Lifetime Achievement Award.
More than 900 industry leaders are expected to attend the Awards Luncheon.
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like โ with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question โ well, a launching point, really โ for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility โ maybe โ of a cure.
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