A Complete Unknown / Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Source: Searchlight Pictures / Paramount Pictures

A Complete Unknown / Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and A Complete Unknown were the big film winners at the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) awards in Santa Monica at the weekend, while New Jersey claimed top honours by a film commission.

Paramount’s eighth entry in the Mission: Impossible spy action series starring Tom Cruise and directed and produced by Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, respectively, won the Outstanding Locations In A Period Feature Film category and shot in England, Norway, South Africa, and Malta.

The corresponding period film award went to Searchlight Pictures’ Bob Dylan drama A Complete Unknown directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet. It filmed in New Jersey, whose New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission was named outstanding commission.

The big TV winners at the 12th annual awards were Apples’s The Studio (which filmed in Los Angeles and Las Vegas) for outstanding contemporary series, Season 2 of Paramount+ show 1923 (Texas, Montana) for period series, and HBO Max’s The Penguin (around New York City: Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Chinatown, Yonkers) for outstanding locations.

The nominations were announced in June.

Kevin Costner received the Eva Monley Award for his “dedication to storytelling through location”, which has featured “prominently” in Dances With Wolves, The Bodyguard, Field Of Dreams, Yellowstone, and Horizon: An American Saga.

Location manager Ilt Jones received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Recognised for his “seamless integration of real-life locations with the magical world of superheroes and large action movies”, Jones’s credits include The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the Transformers franchise.

Key awards:

FILM

Outstanding Locations In A Period Feature Film
A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
Anthony Pisani /LMGI

Outstanding Locations In A Contemporary Feature Film
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)
Ben Firminger /LMGI, Jonas Christiansen, Morten Nelson, Niall O’Shea, Jason Roberts, Peter Bardsley, Jasmine Burridge /LMGI, Clara Butler, Sam Millner

Outstanding Film Commission
New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission

TV

Outstanding Locations In A Period Television Series
1923 - Season 2 (Paramount+)
David Zachary Heine /LMGI, James Crowley, Hayden Yancer /LMGI

Outstanding Locations In A Contemporary Television Series
The Studio (Apple TV+)
Stacey Brashear /LMGI, Martin J. Cummins /LMGI

Outstanding Locations In A Tv Serial Program, Anthology, Mow Or Limited Series
The Penguin (HBO Max)
Keith Adams /LMGI.

 

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