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4 6 1 1 t h A N N U A L L M G I A W A R D S I L O C AT I O N M A N A G E R S G U I L D I N T E R N AT I O N A L LMGI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2024 SUE QUINN While her earliest productions starred heavy hitters like John Malkovich, Tim Roth and Jeremy Irons, Quinn considers one audacious 1995 project directed by Michael Hoffman (Amy Winehouse, A Midsummer Night's Dream) to be a watershed moment. "My big break came with a film called Restoration, created by a young group of filmmakers with no money but big ambitions. We formed lifelong friendships, and the film even won an Oscar for design and costume. That experience marked the beginning of my journey into the world of film." She went on to work with a host of leading filmmakers, S upervising location manager Sue Quinn/LMGI has been creating cinematic magic and advocating for the role of location professionals as a leading figure in her field for more than three decades. She's built visionary worlds for some of the biggest blockbusters in Hollywood, including the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts series, The Little Mermaid, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Edge of Tomorrow, Match Point, Notting Hill, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Legend of Tarzan and Watchmen. including David Yates, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Rob Marshall, Guy Ritchie, Shekhar Kapur and Roger Michell. Her keen eye has creatively placed some of recent cinema's most indelible moments: a defiant young ballet dancer beating against the bricks of Northern England's working-class coastal towns in Billy Elliot, a romantic confession on a twinkling Notting Hill cobblestone street in Love Actually, transfiguring Alnwick Castle and Durham Cathedral into Harry Potter's Hogwarts school, and working with the Royal Air Force to land a helicopter in Trafalgar Square for Edge of Tomorrow—a first-ever achievement for