"Joker" and "The Mandalorian" Publicity Campaigns Win Top Honors at ICG Publicists Awards
10 February 2020
The Local 600 publicity team from Warner Bros. Pictures that worked on Joker. Photo Credit Trae Patton.
The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists today announced winners of its 57th Annual ICG Publicists Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Joker (Warner Bros. Pictures) won the top honors for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Pictures Publicity Campaign, presented by Director Paul Feig (Ghostbusters). The Mandalorian: Season 1 (Disney+) won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign, presented by actor Jason Lewis (Sex in the City). This year’s luncheon, which traditionally occurs the week leading up to the Academy Awards®, was chaired by Tim Menke and co-chaired by Sheryl Main. More than 800 industry leaders attended, including guild members, Hollywood public relations and marketing executives, producers, studio and network executives, celebrities and press.
“Congratulations to all the ICG Publicists Awards nominees and winners today! Together we celebrate and acknowledge their unique achievements and exceptional bodies of work,” said Menke.
Here are the winners at the 57th Annual ICG Publicists Awards:
MAXWELL WEINBERG MOTION PICTURE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN: The union publicists that worked on
publicity campaigns on behalf of:
AVENGERS: ENDGAME - Marvel Studios
THE IRISHMAN - Netflix
***JOKER - Warner Bros. Pictures (winner)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD - Columbia Pictures
ROCKETMAN - Paramount Pictures
US - Universal Pictures
MAXWELL WEINBERG TELEVISION PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN The union publicists that worked on publicity
campaigns on behalf of:
CATCH-22 - Casey Spiegel, Paramount Television (streams on Hulu)
FOSSE/VERDON - Nicole Crawford, Fox 21 Television (airs on FX)
***THE MANDALORIAN: Season 1 - Gregg Brilliant, Unit Publicist (streams on Disney +) (winner)
POSE: Season 2 - Yong Kim, Fox 21 Television (airs on FX)
STRANGER THINGS: Season 3 - Denise Godoy Gregarek, Unit Publicist (streams on Netflix)
WHEN THEY SEE US - Jackie Bazan, Unit Publicist (streams on Netflix)
THE HENRI BOLLINGER AWARD
***Sheryl Main (winner)
LES MASON AWARD FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLICITY
Gabriela Gutentag - Unit Publicist
***Stephen Huvane - Slate PR (winner)
Maureen O'Malley - Warner Bros.
Peter J. Silbermann - Unit Publicist
David Waldman - Paramount Pictures
PUBLICIST OF THE YEAR AWARD
***Rachel Aberly - 42West (winner)
Michelle Alt - Paramount Pictures
Kira Feola - Walt Disney Studios
Alex Kang - Walt Disney Studios
Carol McConnaughey - Unit Publicist
PRESS AWARD
***Clark Collis - Entertainment Weekly (winner)
Tom O’Neil - Gold Derby
Andy Reyes - Entertainment Tonight
Amanda Salas - Fox 11
Adam Weissler - Extra TV
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AWARD
Vera Anderson - Cine Premiere/HFPA (Mexico)
***Nelson Aspen - Sunrise (Australia) (winner)
Janet Nepales - Manila Bulletin/HFPA (Philippines)
Gill Pringle - FilmInk.com (UK)
Adam Tanswell - Freelance/HFPA (UK)
EXCELLENCE IN UNIT STILL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD FOR MOTION PICTURES
Matt Kennedy
Justin Lubin
Daniel McFadden
Hopper Stone
***Niko Tavernise (winner)
EXCELLENCE IN UNIT STILL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD FOR TELEVISION
Beth Dubber
Justin Lubin
***Nicole Rivelli (winner)
JoJo Whilden
Nicole Wilder
Read the full press release here.
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