Location Managers Guild of America (LMGA) today announced nominations in seven categories for outstanding achievement for Location Professionals in feature films, television and commercials competing in the 2nd Annual Location Managers Guild of America (LMGA) Awards. The creative contributions of Location Professionals will be recognized, stressing their importance to the process of movie making. The nominations were announced by LMGA 1st VP, Lori Balton. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, March 7, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.
NOMINEES FOR THE 2nd ANNUAL LOCATION MANAGERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS
Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film
CHEF (Kei Rowan-Young)
GONE GIRL (Rick Schuler and Steve Mapel)
NIGHTCRAWLER (Curtis Collins and Mike Brewer)
THE GAMBLER (Chris Baugh)
WILD (Nancy Haecker)
Outstanding Locations in a Period Film
FURY (Russell Lodge and Lee Robertson)
INHERENT VICE (Larry Ring and Scott Fitzgerald)
SELMA (Wes Hagen and Leif Tilden)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Klaus Darrelmann)
THE IMITATION GAME (David Broder and Richard George)
Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series
HOMELAND (Robert Bentley and Deon du Preez)
NASHVILLE (Kristi Frankenheimer and Mark Ragland)
NCIS: LOS ANGELES (Tony Salome and Jason Savage)
RAY DONOVAN (Craig van Gundy and Boyd Wilson)
TRUE DETECTIVE (Batou Chandler)
Outstanding Locations in a Period Television Series
AMERICAN HORROR STORY (John Johnston)
BOARDWALK EMPIRE (Amanda Foley and Audra Gorman)
FOREVER (Guy Efrat)
TURN (Tom Trigo and Becky Beckstoffer)
Outstanding Locations in a Single Commercial
BUDWEISER “Always There” (JJ Levine and Byll Williams)
COCA-COLA “America is Beautiful” (Jimmy Ayoub, Cyndy McCrossen, Peter Orth, Stephen Pherigo)
NISSAN QASHQAI “Fly by Night” (Gil Evans, Marie-Paule Goislard, Beth Tate)
NISSAN ALTIMA “Migration” (Crofton Diack and Mike Floyd)
HONDA CIVIC “Today is Pretty Great” (Jof Hanwright and Jesse Rivard)
Outstanding Locations in a Commercial Campaign
RAM TRUCKS (David McKinney and Peter Orth)
SUBARU OUTBACK (Alissa Desler and Lori Allen)
Outstanding Film Commission
CHICAGO FILM OFFICE
CITY OF LONG BEACH OFFICE OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND FILMING
FILM IN ICELAND
OREGON GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF FILM & TELEVISION
ROYAL FILM COMMISSION OF JORDAN
Honorary awards to be presented at the ceremony will be the Eva Monley Award, the Humanitarian Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Trailblazer Award.
LMGA Awards sponsorships, advertising and tickets are available. Special discounts will be given to LMGA members, business members, AFCI members and exhibitors. Tickets are available beginning February 1, at www.LMGAAwards.com. SHOOT Magazine/SHOOTonline are among the LMGA Awards media sponsors.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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