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Winners Announced at the 9th Annual Location Managers Guild Awards

On Saturday night, the Location Managers Guild International (as known as LMGI) announced the winners of its 9th annual LMGI Awards. Leading the way in the Motion Picture categories were House of Gucci and No Time to Die, while Station Eleven, Stranger Things, and Succession were the Television Series winners. More below.

Here is the press release from LMGI:

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) announced the winners of its 9th Annual LMGI Awards tonight. The Motion Picture winners were HOUSE OF GUCCI (filmed throughout Italy in Milan, Lake Como, and the Italian Alps) and NO TIME TO DIE (filmed in London, Norway, Jamaica, The Faroe Islands and Italy). The Television Series winners were “SUCCESSION” (filmed throughout New York State and Italy), “STRANGER THINGS” (shot in Atlanta, Georgia; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Vilnius, Lithuania) and “STATION ELEVEN” (filmed around Ontario, Canada and Chicago, Illinois). The awards ceremony and reception took place at the Los Angeles Center Studios before an audience of 400, including LMGI members, industry executives and press. 

The LMGI Awards spotlight international features, television and commercials in which the creative use of filming locations set the tone, enrich the character and enhance the narrative.

Actor Paul Scheer (“Black Monday,” “How Did This Get Made?”) opened the show with his witty humor. Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese, considered one of the most prominent and influential filmmakers working today, received the prestigious Eva Monley Award, honoring his more than 50 years of extraordinary award-winning work, presented by Location Manager Mike Fantasia (Top Gun, Maverick). 

British actor Orlando Bloom, whose role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador shed light on the plight of Ukrainian children forced to evacuate their country amid the ongoing Russian invasion, was bestowed with the esteemed LMGI Humanitarian Award, presented by Megan Henderson, co-anchor of “KTLA Morning News.” 

Production Designer and longtime friend Clay Griffith (Jerry Maguire) presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to 35-year veteran Location Manager Joe Panzarella, LMGI (Midnight Run, L.A. Confidential, The Italian Job, Vice). Location Manager and LMGI 1st Vice President Alison Taylor bestowed the 2022 Trailblazer Award to Joanelle Romero, Founder and President of Red Nation Celebration Institute, honoring the RNCI’s trailblazing initiatives to promote inclusivity in the film industry and bring revenue to Native communities. Bird Singer Zion White performed a historic indigenous dance to celebrate the native culture.

Additional presenters included Emmy®-winning/Oscar®-nominated actor James Cromwell (“American Horror Story: Asylum,” The Longest Yard, L.A. Confidential, Babe), Alexis Floyd (“Inventing Anna,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), Amy Hill (Mack and RitaFifty First Dates, “Mom”) and Kate Linder (“The Young and Restless”), among others.

2022 LMGI AWARDS HONOREES:
EVA MONLEY AWARD
Martin Scorsese

HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Orlando Bloom

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 
John Panzarello, LMGI (Midnight Run, L.A. Confidential, The Italian Job, Vice)

TRAILBLAZER AWARD
Red Nation Celebration Institute

2022 LMGI AWARDS WINNERS:

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD TELEVISION SERIES
“Stranger Things” – Season 4 
Tony Holley, Kyle A. Carey, John Lucas, Jonas Spokas, Vytautas Riabovas  

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES
Succession” – Season 3
Paul Eskenazi, Enrico Latella

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A TELEVISION SERIAL PROGRAM, ANTHOLOGY, OR LIMITED SERIES
“Station Eleven”
Srdjan Vilotijevic, Elmer Jones, Stefan Nikolov, Stuart Berberich

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN APERIOD FILM
House of Gucci – Elisabetta Tomasso, Piernicola (Betta) Pinnola

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY FILM
No Time to Die – Charlie Hayes, Mandy Sharpe, Ben Piltz, Matthew Clarke, Duncan Broadfoot

OUTSTANDING FILM COMMISSION
Oklahoma Film & Music Office (“Reservation Dogs
Tava Maloy Sofsky

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A COMMERCIAL
Crown Royal: Kickoff with Crown
Caprice Ericson

Source: Press Release

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Written by Steven Prusakowski

Steven Prusakowski has been a cinephile as far back as he can remember, literally. At the age of ten, while other kids his age were sleeping, he was up into the late hours of the night watching the Oscars. Since then, his passion for film, television, and awards has only grown. For over a decade he has reviewed and written about entertainment through publications including Awards Circuit and Screen Radar. He has conducted interviews with some of the best in the business - learning more about them, their projects and their crafts. He is a graduate of the RIT film program. You can find him on Twitter and Letterboxd as @FilmSnork – we don’t know why the name, but he seems to be sticking to it.
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