The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) has unveiled the nominations for the annual LMGI Awards honoring the outstanding and creative visual contributions by location professionals in film, television, commercials, and film commissions from around the globe.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the guild and the 10th anniversary of the LMGI Awards ceremony, which will be held on Saturday, August 26, at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
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 10th ANNUAL LMGI AWARDS ARE:
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES
- “Jack Ryan” – Season 3 –Prime Video
- “Succession” – Season 4 – HBO l Max
- “The Diplomat” – Netflix
- “The Handmaids Tale” – Season 5 – Hulu/MGM Studios
- “The Last of Us” – HBO l Max
- “The Old Man” – FX Networks
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD TELEVISION SERIES
- “1923” – Paramount
- “Peaky Blinders” – Season 6 – Netflix
- “Perry Mason” – Season 2 – HBO l Max
- “SEE “– Season 3 – Apple TV +
- “Westworld” – Season 4 – HBO l Max
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A TV SERIAL PROGRAM, ANTHOLOGY OR LIMITED SERIES
- “A Spy Among Friends” – Prime Video
- “Daisy Jones and the Six” – Prime Video
- “The White Lotus” – Season 2 – HBO l Max
- “Queen Charlotte” – Netflix
- “White House Plumbers” – HBO l Max
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS N A CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
- Glass Onion – Netflix
- John Wick 4 – Lionsgate
- Tár – Focus/Universal Pictures
- The Covenant – Netflix
- Troll – Netflix
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD FEATURE FILM
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Netflix
- Argentina 1985 – Prime Video
- The Banshees of Inisherin – Searchlight Pictures
- The Fabelmans – Universal Pictures
- The Woman King – Tri Star Pictures/Sony Pictures
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A COMMERCIAL
- AirPods Pro “Quiet the Noise"
- Apple "The Greatest"
- Go RVing Canada "You Are Out There"
- Icelandair "Easy to Stop, Hard to Leave"
- Visit California "Kidifornia Family Vacation"
OUTSTANDING FILM COMMISISON
- The Alberta Film Commissions (Calgary, Edmonton)/Calgary Economic Development – “The Last of Us”
- The City of Brantford – “The Handmaids Tale” – Season 5
- The City of Worcester, MA Film Commission – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- The Czech Film Commission – The Gray Man
- The Montana Film Office – “1923”
- The Oklahoma Film + Music Office – “Reservation Dogs” – Season 2
Location scout Beth Tate (Twilight, Beverly Hills 90210) will receive this year’s Trailblazer Award. Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement, Humanitarian and the Eva Monley Awards will be announced in the near future.
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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