LMGI Awards 2026: 'One Battle After Another' and 'Marty Supreme' Take Top Location Honours
The Location Managers Guild International handed out its 13th annual awards on Saturday night, with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme winning the top film honours. The ceremony recognised the location professionals who find, secure and manage the real-world places where films and television shows are shot — a role that shapes what audiences see on screen as much as any director or cinematographer.
One Battle After Another, which won six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Anderson, took the LMGI Award for outstanding locations in a contemporary feature film. The winning location managers were Michael Glaser, Michael Wesley and Rich Heichel, who coordinated shoots across California's Humboldt County, Sacramento, Stockton, Eureka, Arcata and San Diego, as well as El Paso, Texas. The Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission, represented by Cassandra Hesseltine, won the separate award for outstanding film commission for its work on the same film. Variety
Marty Supreme won outstanding locations in a period feature film. Location managers Matthew Kania and Ross Brodar oversaw a production that spanned New York City, greater New York, the Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Tokyo — a spread that reflects how period productions often stitch together multiple regions to build a single era on screen.
On the television side, Pluribus won outstanding locations in a contemporary television series. The winning team — Christian Diaz de Bedoya, John O'Connor, Priscila Calero, Jorge Noguerales, Yanira De Armas and Will Brewster — filmed across Albuquerque, Montana, Nevada and Spain. Fallout Season 2 took the period television series award, with location managers Mandi Dillin and David Park working across California's Dumont Dunes, the Mojave Desert, Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita.
Black Rabbit won outstanding locations in a TV anthology, movie or limited series. Paul Eskenazi and Joel McGlumphy, the winning location managers, filmed around New York City, including Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the commercial category, a Toyota Trucks spot titled They Don't Read Reviews won, with Alexandra Gibson and Christina Conway named as the winning location managers.
Two career honours were presented. Four-time Emmy-winning director and writer Vince Gilligan received the Eva Monley Award, which the guild gives to filmmakers who champion the role of locations in storytelling. Location manager Mike Fantasia, whose credits include Top Gun: Maverick, Killers of the Flower Moon and Spider-Man: Homecoming, received the LMGI Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nancy Haecker, the LMGI Awards Chair, commented on the ceremony's celebration of the 2026 winners, according to Variety. The nominees were announced in June 2026, with films including F1 and Weapons among those shortlisted for location honours.
What gives these awards their texture is the sheer geography on the list. A single film can move a crew from the redwood country of Humboldt County to the deserts of west Texas. A television series can hop from New Mexico to Spain and back. The names on the trophies belong to the people who make those moves happen — negotiating road closures, securing permits, and finding the stretch of desert or city block that will stand in for a place that exists only in the script.
