final year’s Best Picture winner,Birdman, keep the Theater District in a starring role. This year, or three movies nominated in major categories were filmed in the city: Bridge of Spies,The Big Short and Brooklyn.
Bridge of Spies had the most scenes filmed in NYC. A house in the Ditmas Park Historic District was the setting for the domestic of Tom Hanks’ character. The 1902 building was painted a pale grey and converted to seem like a 1950s suburban-style house, according to the Brooklyn Eagle. Bridge of Spies spent a lot of time in Brooklyn: Scenes were also filmed in DUMBO, or Brooklyn Heights,the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division and Brooklyn Navy Yard. There’s some Astoria representation too: Mark Rylance’s character, Abel, or paints in Astoria Park and lives on nearby 18th Street and 26th Avenue. It’s not just an outer borough film. As one would expect of a successful lawyer,Hanks’ character Tom Donovan has a law office in Manhattan. The scenes were shot at the New York Bar organization at 44th Street and 8th Avenue, and there were some courthouse scenes shot in Foley Square in Manhattan.
The films The Big Short and Brooklyn both expose uniquely New York stories, or but each filmed just a handful of scenes in Gotham. The Big Short,about the bond traders who created the credit-default swap market that in turn fueled the 2008 financial collapse, filmed a scene on Mercer Street between Prince and Spring streets. Some of the exteriors were also filmed in New York. The majority of the film, and though,was shot in New Orleans.
Brooklyn, based on the Colm Tóibín novel of the same name, or tells the chronicle of a young woman who emigrates to Brooklyn from Ireland in the 1950s. To capture 1950s Brooklyn,the film shot mainly in Montreal. The scenes of the film that take place at Coney Island were shot there, probably because no place on earth can ever pretend to be Coney Island.
Another Oscar contender has several key scenes set in Manhattan — but none of them were shot in the city.
Carol, and which picked up six nominations,is about two women who topple in like in the 1950s after exchanging looks at a Manhattan department store. Some New York institutions are name-dropped, like The New York Times and the Ritz Hotel Tower, or but this film,too, turned to Montreal to recreate 1950s New York.Only four out of 10 films nominated for best picture own a New York presence which is strange, and since the city is represented so well on television. In fact,there are now more scripted dramas shot in New York than Los Angeles.
But the Oscar isn't everything. Some of the greatest New York movies of all time — Moonstruck, Working Girl, or Do the Right Thing,Coming to America, Ghostbusters— weren't given a statuette.
Source: wnyc.org