Location Managers Guild Worldwide is giving a TV kingpin its highest honor this 12 months.
The group is ready to fete Breaking Dangerous, Pluribus and Higher Name Saul creator Vince Gilligan with its 2026 Eva Monley Award. He’ll acquired the profession prize throughout the thirteenth annual LMGI Awards on August 22 on the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
“It’s not straightforward to knock on a house owner’s door and persuade them to let 300 strangers traipse by means of their kitchen,” Gilligan stated. “It’s laborious to pound the pavement to discover a place to park dozens of vehicles, shut sufficient to set for a fast hop but magically out of each digital camera angle. And it’s no picnic to persuade a neighborhood to allow you to swarm their streets with cranes and Musco lights — to not point out the trailers. However these are the sorts of miracles location managers and their scouts carry out on daily basis. They’re a few of the hardest-working of us within the enterprise, and I couldn’t respect them extra,” stated Gilligan.
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Gilligan is within the Emmys hunt once more this 12 months together with his newest present Pluribus, which landed 18 nominations for its rookie season on Apple TV. Has has 4 profession Emmys for the landmark AMC drama Breaking Dangerous, together with back-to-back Excellent Drama Sequence wins in 2013 and 2014, and its prequel Higher Name Saul earned 53 Emmy noms throughout its six-season run however by no means gained. All three of these exhibits had been filmed in Albuquerque, NM.
Gilligan, who penned a pair of options earlier than launching his TV writing profession with The Lone Gunmen and The X-Recordsdata, additionally has six WGA Awards together with two PGA Awards and a DGA Award. His small-screen credit additionally embrace Battle Creek, the Breaking Dangerous film El Camino and Harsh Realm.
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“Vince understands what location professionals have lengthy identified: each highway, skyline, desert panorama, and suburban kitchen has a narrative to inform. In his work, places don’t merely serve the narrative — they assist create it. Landscapes develop into characters. Settings form selections, reveal hidden truths, and, at occasions, decide destiny itself. He has remodeled extraordinary locations into iconic locations identified to audiences across the globe, proving {that a} location could be as emotionally highly effective as a efficiency, as revealing as a line of dialogue, and as unforgettable because the characters who inhabit it.”
LMGI stated earlier that it’ll current its 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award to Mike Fantasia and its Trailblazers Award to the Affiliation of Movie Commissioners Worldwide.
