The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has unveiled the first group of nominees for the 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards.
The awards honor the publicists, unit still photographers and entertainment journalists who uplift the talented filmmakers and exceptional projects in the motion picture and television industry. Winners will be celebrated at a luncheon ceremony on Friday, March 8, 2024 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
ICG Publicists Award chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main announced the nominees in the following categories:
Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity
- Natalie Bjelajac, Netflix
- Linda Brown, Unit Publicist
- Kira Feola, KC Feola PR
- Gabriela Gutentag, Unit Publicist
- Carol McConnaughey, Unit Publicist
Publicist of the Year Award
- Katie Lovick, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Julia Neal, Paramount Pictures
- Chris Garcia Nutley, Warner Bros.
- Cynthia Swartz, Strategy PR/Consulting
- Shelly Williams, Unit Publicist
Excellence in Unit Stills Photography – Motion Pictures
- Claudette Barius
- Daniel McFadden
- Jessica Miglio
- Michele K. Short
- Jojo Whilden
Excellence in Unit Stills Photography – Television
- Jessica Brooks
- Justin Lubin
- Jake Giles Netter
- Erin Simkin
- Lacey Terrell
Press Award
- Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
- Angelique Jackson, Variety
- Perri Nemiroff, Collider
- Sasha Stone, Awards Daily
- Jen Yamato, LA Times
International Media Award
- Raya Abirached, MBC International
- Baz Bamigboye, Deadline International
- Wenlei Ma, Seven West Media (Australia)
- Raquel Laguna Pardo, Europa Press (Spain)
- Marlene von Arx, CH Media Newspapers (Switzerland)
The final winners are determined via an online ballot of the ICG publicists membership, during a voting period from Jan. 24 – Feb. 2, 2024.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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