The Location Managers Guild Worldwide has pinpointed the recipient of its 2025 Eva Monley Award: Kevin Costner.
The 2-time Oscar winner will probably be feted August 23 through the twelfth annual LMGI Awards on the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
The Eva Monley Award is given to a person who has made a rare contribution to the artwork and craft of filmmaking via their dedication to using actual areas.
Costner’s lengthy display screen profession in Hollywood ranges from starring roles in Nineteen Eighties movies Silverado, The Untouchables, No Method Out and Subject of Desires via Bull Durham, JFK, Waterworld, 13 Days, 3000 Miles to Graceland, The Postman, Wyatt Earp, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Draft Day and final 12 months’s multi-part Horizon: An American Saga. He additionally starred as John Dutton within the smash Taylor Sheridan drama collection Yellowstone and has dozens of producer credit.
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“Kevin Costner has lengthy understood that areas are greater than surroundings — they’re storytelling instruments that form the emotional and visible language of a movie,” LMGI President John Rakich mentioned in an announcement. “His dedication to authenticity and his deep respect for the craft makes him an ideal recipient of the Eva Monley Award. We’re honored to rejoice his legacy and his ongoing contributions to the artwork of filmmaking.”
Alongside along with his two Greatest Image and Greatest Director Oscars for 1990’s Dances with Wolves, Costner received an Emmy for his lead function in 2012’s Hatfields & McCoys and likewise has picked up {hardware} from the Producers Guild, DGA, SAG Awards, Golden Globes, Nationwide Board of Assessment, Folks’s Alternative Awards and myriad guilds, movie festivals and critics teams.
LMGI mentioned final week that Ilt Jones, who labored on Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, The Darkish Knight Rises and the Transformers franchise, will obtain its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
The LMGI Awards honor the excellent and artistic contributions of location professionals in movie, TV, commercials and movie commissions from all over the world and rejoice the artwork and craft of location scouting and administration. Final 12 months’s winners included Oppenheimer, Mission: Unimaginable: Useless Reckoning, Fallout, Fargo and Ripley.
