Written by Tom Deehan on Mar 2, 2016. Posted in General Interest

The 3rd annual LMGI Awards show announces its nominees

The Location Managers Guild International Awards show has announced its full list of nominees. This year's award ceremony will be the first since LMGI’s rebranding in 2015 and will feature a vast array of productions across all the screen industries.

LMGI’s First Vice President, Lori Balton explained: “this year the Guild opened the submission process. Production companies, film commissions, directors, producers and filmmaking fans from around the world provided potential nominees reflecting our expanded global focus”.

The nominees are as follows:

Contemporary Film

– Blackhat (Janice Polley / LMGI and Julie Hannum / LMGI)
– Black Mass (Charlie Harrington and Benjamin Dewey)
– Creed (Patricia Taggart and Dan Gorman / LMGI)
– Our Brand is Crisis (Batou Chandler / LMGI – New Orleans; Luis Estrella  / LMGI – Puerto Rico)
– Sicario (S. Todd Christensen / LMGI and Shani Orona / LMGI)

Period Film

– Bridge of Spies (Klaus Darrelmann / LMGI and Markus Bensch – Europe; Jason Farrar – New York)
– Mad Max: Fury Road (Simon Crook and Paul Tomlinson)
– The Revenant (Robin Mounsey and Bruce Brownstein / LMGI)
– Straight Outta Compton (Alison A.Taylor / LMGI)
– Trumbo (David Thornsberry / LMGI)

Contemporary Television

– Better Call Saul (Christian Diaz de Bedoya)
– Bosch (Robert Paulsen and Paul Schreiber / LMGI)
– Mr. Robot (Demian Resnick)
– Sense8 (Marco Giacalone/ LMGI and Bill Bowling / LMGI)
– True Detective, Season 2 (Michael Chickey / LMGI and Caleb Duffy / LMGI)

Period Television

– Aquarius (Michael Haro / LMGI and Stacey Brashear)
– Fargo (Matt Palmer /LMGI and Rob Hilton)
– Game of Thrones, Season 5 (Robert Boake / LMGI and Tate Araez)
– Gotham (Keith Adams /LMGI and Pat Sones)
– Sleepy Hollow, Season 3 (Nancy Haecker / LMGI and Ryan Taylor)

Commercials

– Apple Music – History of Sound (Peter Orth / LMGI, David Henriksen, David McKinney / LMGI)
– Budweiser – Lost Dog (Patrick Riley / LMGI)
– Chevy – Chevy Anthem (Sean Alquist)
– Facebook – Friend Request (Adam Butt / LMGI and Wilson Wu)
– Toyota Tacoma – Let’s Go Places: Countdown (Scott Logan / LMGI and Scott Trimble / LMGI)

Film Commission

– Albuquerque Film Office
– Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission
– Film LA
– Mexico City Film Office
– Royal Film Commission of Jordan

The LMGI also distributes a number of Honourary Awards, including The Eva Monley, Lifetime Achievement, Trailblazer and Humanitarian Awards. The event will take place April 23^rd, and while venue details have yet to be released, the show will be hosted by actor David Doumeng.