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Veteran location head and accumulation supervisor Mike Fantasia, whose credits scope from A River Runs Through It and Jerry Maguire to Top Gun: Maverick and Killers of nan Flower Moon, is group for a large profession grant this summer. The Location Managers Guild International said Wednesday that he will person its 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Fantasia will beryllium feted astatine nan 13th LMGI Awards connected August 22 astatine nan the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage successful Santa Monica.
After a 13-year profession pinch nan U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service, Fantasia pivoted to nan movie business successful 1991. His dozens of movie credits besides see The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Heat, Catch Me If You Can, nan Free Willy films, Seabiscuit, Ant-Man and its 2018 sequel, Godzilla, The Green Hornet, 3:10 to Yuma, Army of nan Dead and Steven Spielberg’s Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich and Indiana Jones and nan Kingdom of nan Crystal Skull.
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“Mike Fantasia is 1 of those uncommon cases wherever nan activity doesn’t conscionable speak, it keeps school nan remainder of america really to do nan occupation better,” LMGI President Danny Finn said successful a statement. “He’s a individual leader of excavation and countless different LMGI members, and nan resonance of his activity is baked into this craft. The Lifetime Achievement Award is our measurement of putting a sanction to what everyone successful this manufacture has known astir Mike for a agelong time.”
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