TV series honors go to "Game of Thrones," "Sense8"
The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) announced and honored the winners of its 3rd Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards tonight. The event honored the outstanding and creative international contributions of location professionals and film commissions across film, television and commercials. The black-tie awards ceremony took place at the Alex Theatre in Glendale before an audience of 500, including LMGI members, industry executives and press. Location manager David Doumeng served as host.
The Revenant and Sicario topped the respective feature categories Outstanding Locations in a Period Film and Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film.
Game of Thrones, season 5, was honored for Outstanding Locations in a Period TV Series while Sense8 garnered the Outstanding Locations honor for a Contemporary TV Series. Chevy’s “Anthem” topped the Commercials category.
FilmL.A. was named Best Film Commission for its work on Bosch.
Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Spider-Man: Homecoming) presented director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) with the Eva Monley Award. Jeff Goldblum (The Grand Budapest Hotel) accepted the award on Anderson’s behalf. Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actress Amy Brenneman (The Leftovers, Private Practice, Judging Amy) and director/executive producer Brad Silberling (Reign, Jane the Virgin) were honored with LMGI’s Humanitarian Award for their work with numerous charities and their commitment to social responsibility. Director Michael Mann (Heat, Ali, Collateral) presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to supervising location manager Janice Polley (Insurgent, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Collateral). Teamsters Local 399 head Steve Dayan (The Family Man, City of Angels, The Cable Guy, Volcano) was presented with the Trailblazer Award by California Film Commission executive director Amy Lemisch and location manager Ilt Jones (Transformers, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises).
LMGI AWARDS HONOREES:
Eva Monley Award
WES ANDERSON
Humanitarian Award
AMY BRENNEMAN and BRAD SILBERLING
Lifetime Achievement Award
JANICE POLLEY, Location Manager
Trailblazer Award
STEVE DAYAN, Head of Local 399 Teamsters
LMGI AWARDS WINNERS:
Outstanding Locations in a Period Film
THE REVENANT
Location Managers: ROBIN MOUNSEY and BRUCE BROWNSTEIN
Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film
SICARIO
Location Managers: S. TODD CHRISTENSEN and SHANI ORONA
Outstanding Locations in a Period Television Series
GAME OF THRONES, Season 5
Location Managers: ROBERT BOAKE and TATE ARAEZ
Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series
SENSE8
Location Managers: MARCO GIACALONE and BILL BOWLING
Outstanding Film Commission
FilmL.A. (BOSCH)
Outstanding Locations in a Commercial
CHEVY: "Anthem"
Location Managers: SEAN ALQUIST (Los Angeles), ART CHALERMPHAN (Bangkok), DANIEL FONTOURA (Rio), JIKESH SHAH (Kolkata)
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More