The International Cinematographer’s Guild (ICG) has announced its first group of nominees for the 2025 annual ICG Publicists Awards.
The annual awards show “recognizes the achievements of the ICG’s publicist members, including unit publicists, individual publicists, and studio publicists, as well as unit still photographers,” according to the organization. Winners will be announced at a luncheon ceremony on Feb. 28, 2025 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
The guild represents approximately 10,000 members who work on features films, TV, streaming, commercials, news broadcasts, documentaries, and more. Members include directors of photography, visual effects supervisors, camera operators, camera assistants, loaders, utilities, still photographers, digital imaging technicians, video controllers and publicists.
The Publicists Guild merged with the ICG in 2002, and its first Publicists Awards Luncheon was held in 1964.
See below for the nominations.
Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity
Carri McClure, Unit Publicist
Bill Mona, Disney
Claire Raskind, Unit Publicist
Gina Soliz, Warner Bros.
Kimberly Wire, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Publicist of the Year Award
Azure Anderson, Paramount Pictures
Katie Lovick, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Liza Nedelman, Warner Bros.
Danielle Roque, Paramount International
Rachael Roth, Unit Publicist
Excellence in Unit Still Photography Award – Motion Pictures
Phil Caruso
Chiabella James
Justin Lubin
Daniel McFadden
Hopper Stone
Excellence in Unit Still Photography Award – Television
Jessica Brooks
Kevin Estrada
Michael Moriatis
Michele K. Short
JoJo Whilden
Press Award
Jacqueline Coley, Rotten Tomatoes
Angelique Jackson, Variety
Perri Nemiroff, Collider
Nischelle Turner, Entertainment Tonight
Kara Warner, Freelancer
International Media Award
Raya Abirached, MBC International
Yoshifumi Hosoya, Cinematoday Japan
Cleide Klock, SBT TV Brazil
John Nugent, Empire Magazine UK
Ali Plumb, BBC Radio 1 UK