Entry Submissions
Voting Rules, Regulations and Procedures
Location Managers Guild International
11th Annual LMGI Awards
August 24, 2024 • Los Angeles, California
Entry Submission Period is now open
and will close May 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM PDT.
LOCATION PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND ELIGIBILITY
The LMGI Awards spotlight the creativity of our craft. Award Nominees are essential to the process of selecting filming locations that set the tone, enrich the character, and enhance the narrative.
The Awards Committee will first review each submission to determine that the basic criteria for eligibility have been met. Productions from any country are eligible as long as they satisfy the below minimum requirements:
- Feature Film Eligibility: First released between June 2, 2023 and June 1, 2024; over 40 minutes in length, commercial run by June 2, 2023. At least 60% must be filmed on location and may include 2nd Unit and VFX unit days.
- Television Program Eligibility: Initial broadcast between June 2, 2023 and June 1, 2024. At least 60% must be filmed on location and may include 2nd Unit and VFX unit days.
- Commercial Eligibility: Initial broadcast between June 2, 2023 and June 1, 2024. At least 60% must be filmed on location and may include 2nd Unit and VFX unit days.
Submitted projects should also be able to be viewed in the U.S., and subtitles must be available if not in English.
If there are three (3) or fewer qualifying works submitted in a category other than the Honorary Awards, the Board of Directors may elect not to give an award in that category for the current year.
Eligibility for all nominations and awards shall be determined by screen credits or as certified to the LMGI by the producing companies, but final credit determination and nomination eligibility in any event shall be made by the LMGI. No producers or other person may alter an individual’s screen credit in order to qualify the individual for Award eligibility. The LMGI reserves the right to make its own determination of credit for award consideration. In the event of a credit dispute, the nomination eligibility for the LMGI Awards shall be determined by the LMGI Awards committee whose decision will be final. Additionally, the LMGI reserves the right to declare any entry in dispute as ineligible or alternatively to list credits as being in controversy and withhold any award until the dispute is settled.
CATEGORY DEFINITIONS
- Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film: For any released feature length live-action motion picture.
- Outstanding Locations in a Period Film: For any released feature length live-action motion picture. The film must portray a time period at least 20 years prior or at least 10 years after the current award year.
- Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary TV Series or Program: Includes Broadcast TV, Cable and Streaming platforms.
- Outstanding Locations in a Period TV Series or Program: Includes Broadcast TV, Cable and Streaming platforms. Must portray a time period at least 20 years prior or at least 10 years after the current award year.
- Outstanding TV Serial Program, Anthology, MOW or Limited Series: For any multi-episode, serialized program or MOW on any platform that is contained in its narrative/stories/arc to a single season.
- Outstanding Locations in a Commercial: For a single advertising spot with a minimum length of 15 seconds.
- Outstanding Film Commission/Office (worldwide): For exemplary and creative work performed above and beyond the usual service provided to location professionals on a specific feature film, television series or commercials released between June 2, 2023 and June 1, 2024.
Note: Final approval of a category placement and eligibility shall be determined by the LMGI Awards Committee. A feature film, television program or commercial with eligibility in a prior year cannot be reentered in the current awards’ year, even though it may have been modified with new footage.
AWARDS TIMELINE, BALLOTS AND PROCEDURES FOR TWO ROUNDS OF VOTING:
- Nominations for the first round of voting will be determined by the LMGI Awards committee based on the percentage of the production filmed on location as well as the creative use of evocative locations to set the tone, enrich the character and enhance the narrative.
2. The Nomination Ballot will list up to twenty (20) eligible and vetted entries nominated in each category alphabetically.
3. Nomination voting will open June 2, 2024.
4. LMGI location professionals in good standing will vote for their top five entries in each category.
5. Nomination voting will close June 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PDT.
6. The five (5) submissions receiving the highest number of nomination votes in each category will become the nominees for the final voting. In the event of a tie for the 5th position, the category will increase to 6 nominees.
7. Nominees in each category are announced June 30, 2024.
8. The Final round of online voting will begin July 14, 2024.
9. LMGI location professionals in good standing will vote for one entry in each category.
10. The Final round of online voting will close July 23, 2024 at 11:59 PM PDT
11. The nominee in each category with the highest total number of votes shall be named the winner. In the event of a tie for first place in the final balloting, awards will be given to more than one winner in the category.
NOTE: Any appeals or petitions must be submitted to the Awards committee (email to: Awards@LocationManagers.org) within five calendar days of the announcement of nominations. After this time, no appeals or petitions may be made. Decisions regarding any and all appeals and petitions will be made by the LMGI Awards Committee whose decision will be final.
LMGI AWARDS
Winners will be announced at the 11th Annual LMGI Awards gala to be held in Los Angeles on August 24th, 2024 in-person and live-streamed.
SUBMISSION FORMS:
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A SINGLE COMMERCIAL
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY FILM
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD FILM
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES OR MOVIE
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD TELEVISION TV SERIES OR MOVIE
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A TV SERIAL PROGRAM, ANTHOLOGY, OR LIMITED SERIES