Location Managers Guild Scouts Out Nominees For 2026 LMGI Awards

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The Location Managers Guild International has put a primary hold on the nominees for its 13th annual LMGI Awards. See the list below.

The guild received a record number of submissions for its 13th annual celebration of outstanding creative visual contributions of location professionals in contemporary and period films and TV shows, along with commercials and film commissions from around the world.  

The 2026 LMGI Awards be handed out on August 22 at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

The group said last month that location manager Mike Fantasia will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The LMGI Humanitarian Award will be presented to the Environmental Media Association for its efforts in advancing sustainable production across film and television. 

Here are the nominees for the 2026 LMGI Awards:

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
28 Years Later (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Bugonia (Focus Features)
F1 (Warner Bros. Pictures/Apple TV)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures)

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Hamnet (Focus Features)
Marty Supreme (A24)
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (Netflix)
The Secret Agent (Neon)
Train Dreams (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A CONTEMPORARY TV SERIES
Landman – Season 2 (Paramount+)
Pluribus (Apple TV+)
Slow Horses – Season 5 (Apple TV)
The Diplomat – Season 3 (Netflix)
The Night Manager – Season 2 (Amazon Prime Video)

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD TV SERIES
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)
Fallout – Season 2 (Amazon Prime Video)
House of Guinness (Netflix)
Stranger Things – Season 5 (Netflix)
Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime Video)

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A TV ANTHOLOGY, MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (Netflix)
Beef – Season 2 (Netflix)
Black Rabbit (Netflix)
Chief of War (Apple TV)
Lord of the Flies (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A COMMERCIAL
2025 Emirates NBA Cup: Who Will Capture the Cup? (NBA)
American Express: There’s Nothing Like Platinum
Covered California: For the Love of Californians
Toyota Trucks: They Don’t Read Reviews (Toyota)
Greater Zion: Why Hollywood Chooses This Landscape (Greater Zion Film Commission)

OUTSTANDING FILM COMMISSION / OFFICE
Albuquerque Film Office – Pluribus (Apple TV)
Proimágenes Colombia/Columbia Film Commission – The Night Manager – Season 2 (Amazon Prime Video)
Film London – Jack Ryan: Ghost War (Amazon Prime Video)
Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission – Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century Studios)
Washington Filmworks – Train Dreams (Netflix)

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