Veteran location supervisor Dow Griffith (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium, Jumanji, And Justice For All) might be honored with the 2023 Location Managers Guild Worldwide’s Lifetime Achievement Award. It will likely be introduced on the tenth annual LMGI Awards on Saturday, August 26 at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
Griffith is being honored for his lifetime profession of over 65 movement photos whose places span the globe. The announcement was made Wednesday by LMGI Awards Committee Chairs John Rakich, LMGI President, and Robin Citrin, Supervising Location Supervisor.
Per the LMGI: “Griffith’s enthusiasm and creativity have set the scene for motion pictures websites actually world wide and specializing in distinctive and international places. His background in cultural anthropology and his adventurous spirit have taken him on planes, buses, tuk-tuks, bikes, dugout canoes, and helicopters to discover the world and its wonders in the hunt for the very best and most applicable location settings. He has visited an enviable 500 areas of the planet and 237 World Heritage Websites.”
Griffith’s movement image credit embody Proof of Life, The Fountain, Ghost within the Shell, The Promise, The Bourne Legacy, Tropic Thunder, Carrie, The Chronicles of Riddick, Dinosaur, Mission to Mars, Jungle 2 Jungle, Sleepless in Seattle, Alive, Arachnophobia, At all times, Moon Over Parador, The Coloration of Cash, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Finest Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Jerk, And Justice for All, and The Onion Area, amongst many others.
Throughout his 45-year profession, Dow has labored with filmmakers together with Taylor Hackford, Darren Aronofsky, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathy Kennedy, Richard Vane, Norman Jewison, Brian DePalma, Paul Mazursky, Steven Soderbergh, M. Night time Shyamalan, John Hughes, Martin Scorsese, Michael Apted, and Carl Reiner, amongst many others.
“We regard Dow to be the quintessential location supervisor as we’ve got adopted his adventures throughout the globe. Effectively-traveled and filled with tales, Dow will be dropped off anyplace on the earth and he’ll return with tales and must-go locations. He’s resourceful, personable, and extremely adaptable to any scenario with a lifetime of wealthy escapades. He is most deserving to be honored with this 12 months’s LMGI Lifetime Achievement Award,” mentioned Citrin.
Based in 2003, the LMGI is a nonprofit group of profession location professionals working in movie, TV, commercials and print. The LMGI isn’t a labor union and doesn’t characterize location managers in contract negotiations.
