David Yates, the English director of the last four Harry Potter films and two Fantastic Beasts films, will receive this year’s Eva Monley Award from the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) at the 8th Annual LMGI Awards on Saturday, October 23, at 2pm PDT in a virtual ceremony. The award recognizes and honors industry members who support the vision of location professionals.
Each year, the LMGI presents their Honorary Eva Monley Award to a filmmaker whose efforts have demonstrated “above and beyond” support of the work of location professionals. Named in honor of the late Eva Monley, who was the go-to person to scout and organize logistics in remote locations for John Huston, Otto Preminger, David Lean and many others. Immensely curious, capable and self-reliant, Monley thrived in a peripatetic film career spanning 50 years. A spirited, innovative person whose pioneering contributions to the location profession inspired the award being named after her. Previous honorees have included talents such as Alexander Payne, Wes Anderson, Danny Boyle, Peter Weir and Christopher McQuarrie.
The theme of this year’s program is “Celebrate the Where.” Actor and director Isaiah Mustafa will return to host the 8th Annual LMGI Awards which honor the outstanding and creative visual contributions by location professionals in film, television and commercials from around the globe. The LMGI Awards also recognize outstanding service by film commissions for their stellar support during the production process. This year’s show will be produced by Erick Weiss, Honeysweet Creative and IngleDodd Media, and written by Shelly Goldstein.
John Rakich, LMGI president and Awards Committee chair, said, “We are delighted to honor David Yates whose wonderful films have always made full use of his location professionals’ work.”
The four Potter films directed by Yates were Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and Part 2. He continued his collaboration with J.K. Rowling by directing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
In 2016 Yates directed the action-adventure The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Yates won his first BAFTA Award for his work on the BBC miniseries The Way We Live Now. In 2003, he directed the drama series State of Play, for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination and won the Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. The following year Yates won another BAFTA Award for the two-part drama Sex Traffic which also earned him a DGGB nomination. The gritty look at sex trafficking also won numerous international awards. Yates earned an Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special for his work on the 2005 HBO movie The Girl in the Café.
This year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 8th Annual LMGI Awards will, once again, be presented on a digital platform, streaming to a worldwide and more inclusive audience.
ABC will air 6 additional “Monday Night Football” games starting this week with Bills-Jets
ABC will simulcast six more ESPN "Monday Night Football" games, including Monday's AFC East matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets.
The addition of the six games means ABC will air 17 this season — 14 simulcasts with ESPN (including two playoff games) and three games exclusively on ABC.
The decision to simulcast more games was a joint decision between the NFL and Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC and ESPN.
The other added games are Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Oct. 21), Tampa Bay at Kansas City (Nov. 4), Houston at Dallas (Nov. 18), Baltimore at Los Angeles Chargers (Nov. 25) and New Orleans at Green Bay (Dec. 23).
The only two Mondays the rest of the regular season where ABC will not have a game are Nov. 11 and Dec. 2.
ABC had games all 18 weeks last season due to an agreement with the NFL since there was no new original fall programming due to the Hollywood writers and actors strikes. With more games on network television, "Monday Night Football" averaged 17.36 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, a 29% increase over 2022.
It was the best audience numbers for the league's seminal prime-time package since 2000. The Super Bowl 57 rematch between Philadelphia and Kansas City averaged 29.03 million.
Coming into the season, ABC had eight scheduled simulcasts, including two Saturday Week 18 games and two playoff games, and three exclusive MNF games when there were doubleheaders.
It also continues Disney's move toward putting more sports programming back on ABC. Super Bowl 61 from Los Angeles in 2027 will be on the network and the College Football Playoff championship game will also move to ABC the same year.
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