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ICG Publicists Awards: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Producers to Receive Motion Picture Showpersons Award

The Top Gun: Maverick team is set to receive another prize for the record-breaking sequel. The ICG Publicists Awards will honor the film’s producers with its motion picture showpersons of the year award, chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main announced. Jerry Bruckheimer will accept the award on behalf of his fellow producers Tom Cruise, Christopher […]

Taika Waititi Pokes Fun at Talent-Publicist Relationship During ICG Awards: “I Get it, We’re Annoying”

You can always count on Taika Waititi to go off-script at an awards show, and that’s precisely what he did on Friday during the Publicists Guild Awards. While accepting the Television Showpersons of the Year award with his Reservation Dogs comrade Sterlin Harjo (who appeared on video from the set of season two), Waititi dedicated […]

Francis Ford Coppola Offers Solution for Ukraine: Tell Putin to “Stop” as He Is “Not an Insane, Deranged Person”

Upon taking the stage to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Publicists Guild on Friday afternoon, legendary auteur Francis Ford Coppola promptly announced a podium pivot. “I am taking the unprepared speech I was going to unpreparedly give, and I’m throwing that away,” said the 82-year-old after giving a quick shout-out to longtime publicist […]

ICG Publicists Awards: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ Take Top Prizes

The International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600) announced the winners for its 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards, which were presented during a March 25 luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Marvel/Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso won the Maxwell Weinberg awards for motion picture and television publicity campaign, respectively. Five-time Oscar winner […]

Promotion Pays Off at the Publicists Guild Awards

The International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600)’s 59th Annual ICG Publicists Awards will celebrate outstanding achievements in publicity and promotion at an in-person luncheon ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 25. “We love to celebrate the publicists [because] they spend so much of their time doing the work to celebrate others,” ICG national executive […]

MGM Chiefs Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy to Receive ICG Publicists Tribute

MGM’s Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will be honored with the Motion Picture Showpersons Awards from the International Cinematographers Guild at the 59th Annual ICG Publicists Awards Luncheon on March 25. The announcement was made by awards chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main on Tuesday. The studio’s film group is led by chairman De […]

Francis Ford Coppola to Receive ICG Publicists Lifetime Achievement Award

Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Cinematographers Guild at the 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards ceremony next month. The announcement came Thursday morning from awards chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main. “Francis Ford Coppola has impacted nearly every facet of motion picture storytelling — […]

‘Dune,’ ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Among Nominees for ICG Publicists Awards

The International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) announced on Friday the nominations for its 2022 Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity. The winner among this year’s six nominees will be presented with the distinction during the 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards’ March 25 luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Maxwell Weinberg Award for […]

ICG Publicists Awards Nominations Announced

The International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600) announced the nominations for its 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards, which are scheduled to be presented during a March 25 luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. The recipients of the annual Motion Picture Showman of the Year Award and the Television Showman of the Year Award have not yet […]