Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Oscar Winning Films Set in London??
Does anyone know of any oscar winning movies with London locations?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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The Queen
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Chariots of Fire. The bit when they are watching the Mikado is in the Savoy Theatre.
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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Will oscar nomination do? For best adapted screenplay-Kubricks 'Full Metal Jacket'. "The disused Beckton Gas Works was the ruined city of Huế. To achieve this look, Kubrick had buildings blown up and the film's art director used a wrecking ball to knock specific holes in buildings. The open country is Cliffe marshes, also on the Thames, with 200 imported Spanish palm trees and 100,000 plastic tropical plants from Hong Kong." (Wiki)
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Elizabeth: the Golden Age, 2007 Best Costume Design partly shot in the amazing location of St Bartholomew's the Great at Smithfield (also used as location for another Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love, and other films eg The Other Boleyn Girl, Sherlock Holmes 2009, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Jude....) Unfortunately the church now charges an entrance fee.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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Googling a few sites that list movie locations - here is one that has an entry for Harringay (the Long Good Friday). Not an Oscar winner but a good 1980s British gangster flick with upcoming actors Helen Mirren & Bob Hoskins if you like that sort of thing - is has a photo of a scene shot at Harringay Stadium, apparently:
According to this site (which does maps), another scene "Fagan's Pu....
Here is a list of films shot in London if that helps.
Can't resist adding that Haringey local Robert W Paul was credited with helping make the first ever British film in 1895 at Clovelly Cottage, Barnet (with Birt Acres) and thus the first to use a "dolly" (camera track) amongst other pioneering activities. He had been asked by some business people to copy Edison's projector but had refused until it was discovered that Edison did not patent it in the UK. So made lots and, with the profits went about producing the films needed to show off this latest high-tech sensation, doubtless shown in places like the Coliseum (the Cinema to the left of the Salisbury).
He built the first UK film studio (mainly a chemical lab) in Coppetts Road, Muswell Hill in 1896.
He lived in this house in Coppetts Road, north of Muswell Hill:
His 1905 silent "The Unfortunate Policeman" was one of many filmed in the UK's first ever film studio (off Coppetts Road near his house). After the switch from the studio set (1m 40s) they go outside and you get a glimpse of what most of the borough looked like then:
Here is a map of R W Paul locations of his films.
Off topic I know, but, I hope, interesting.
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