This 12 months’s Academy Award contenders take audiences on journeys throughout area and time, from the Colosseum of historic Rome to the drug dens of mid-century Mexico Metropolis, from the cramped confines of a community TV studio to the infinite sandscapes of a far-off planet. Making these Oscar hopefuls took quite a lot of elements, together with peerless manufacturing design, a spread of overseas tax incentives, the work of numerous location scouts and a little bit of moviemaking sleight of hand to rework even acquainted locations into fully sudden locations.

Right here’s the place filming came about for a few of Selection’s favourite films heating up this award season:

Conclave
Maybe a papal dispensation may’ve allowed Edward Berger’s Vatican drama to shoot within the Sistine Chapel, however the manufacturing workforce opted for a no-less-formidable Rome establishment, Cinecittà Studios, to construct a surprising reproduction. The chapel and the palatial Casa Santa Marta had been constructed on stage 15 — one of many studio’s largest and most versatile services — with set building carried out by a workforce of fifty expert artisans. It took all of them of 10 weeks to recreate Michelangelo’s piece de resistance (whereas the unique took the well-known Renaissance artist 4 full years to color).

The Outrun
A lot of Nora Fingscheidt’s Saoirse Ronan-starring restoration drama, primarily based on the bestselling memoir by native writer Amy Liptrot, was filmed on location on Scotland’s Orkney Islands (although the Outrun itself — a wild, windswept stretch of coastland — sits on a personal farm). Although there are not any domestically primarily based manufacturing firms on Orkney, gear rental, permits, location sourcing and different logistics might be facilitated by the publicly funded Orkney Advertising and marketing, which acts as a de facto movie workplace for the archipelago (pop. 22,000).

The Substance
Veteran Paris-based firm Voulez-vous Manufacturing Companies dealt with the 108-day shoot for Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, which was filmed within the Paris area and on location on the Côte d’Azur. Working with a principally French crew — and the nation’s 40% tax rebate — the manufacturing traveled throughout the Alpes-Maritimes to search out places that evoke Hollywood and California. The gambit paid off: French audiences on the movie’s Cannes premiere had been reportedly shocked to study it was filmed of their yard.

Gladiator II
Ridley Scott and firm returned to the island of Malta for the sequel to 2000’s greatest image winner, the place the spectacular, Seventeenth-century Fort Ricasoli — a totally functioning backlot managed by the nation’s movie fee, Display screen Malta — was used to recreate historic Rome. Crews additionally constructed an amphitheater on the fort’s 70,000 sq. meter backlot, whereas the water tanks at Malta Movie Studios — additionally managed by Display screen Malta, which may help with the nation’s 40% money rebate — had been used for the film’s epic naval battles.

Maria
Although Pablo Larraín’s biopic of the American-born, Greek opera diva Maria Callas had a number of taking pictures days in Greece (the place she spent her childhood) and Paris (the place she ultimately died), a lot of the Angelina Jolie-starring movie was shot in Budapest. Native manufacturing providers firm Pioneer Stillking Movies utilized places such because the Hungarian State Opera Home and the historic Categorical Constructing, which doubled for Callas’ grand condo in Paris. (The manufacturing, nonetheless, tacked on a single taking pictures day in Milan to present La Scala a star flip.)

Dune 2
Dennis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel arrange store within the United Arab Emirates and Jordan to shoot its dramatic desert scenes, with manufacturing providers, key crew and gear supplied by Budapest-based Mid Atlantic Movies — which, due to a provision within the Hungarian tax incentive, had been capable of profit from that nation’s 30% rebate. Native crew additionally pitched in to construct huge backlots in the course of the desert, with assist supplied by Dubai-based Epic Movies and Jordan’s Zaman Undertaking Administration.

Blitz
Whereas places throughout the British capital — together with underground Tube stations and Waterloo’s iconic Roupell Road — hosted Steve McQueen’s formidable WWII drama, a lot of Blitz-era London (such because the West Finish nightclub Café de Paris) was recreated at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, using 4 soundstages and the studio backlot. Key sequences additionally shot in Hull, whose Paragon Station doubled as London’s Paddington, whereas a significant motion set piece was filmed on the Historic Dockyard Chatham, a former naval facility.

A Actual Ache
Jesse Eisenberg’s highway film about two cousins taking a “Holocaust tour” throughout Poland obtained help from a spread of native our bodies and commissions — together with the Polish Movie Institute and the Mazovia Warsaw Movie Fee, which each co-financed the undertaking — together with Poland’s 30% money rebate. Key scenes had been shot with the assistance of the Lublin Movie Fund in that japanese metropolis, the place Oscar-winning producer Ewa Puszczyńska additionally labored intently with native officers to safe uncommon permission to movie on the Majdanek focus camp.

Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’ reimagining of the 1922 silent German horror basic was shot at quite a lot of places across the Czech Republic with the assistance of Prague-based Stillking Movies — and the nation’s money rebate, which is able to rise to 25% in January — using places together with the Thirteenth-century Rožmitál Fort in Bohemia and Prague’s hanging Invalidovna advanced, a one-time residence for battle veterans. Filming additionally came about at Prague’s legendary Barrandov Studios, making use of three levels and a backlot to construct the movie’s elaborate units.

Queer
Although most of Luca Guadagnino’s buzzy adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ confessional novel is about in Mexico Metropolis (and was largely filmed at Rome’s Cinecittà), the manufacturing used every week of taking pictures in Sicily to recreate Nineteen Forties Latin America, together with the Palermo botanical backyard — which doubled as a Mexican forest — and the town’s Piazza Magione, the place a bustling market was constructed. Although gear was introduced in from Rome, the Sicilia Movie Fee helped the manufacturing faucet into regional funds and entry places just like the hard-to-reach nature reserve alongside the Belice River that stood in for Panama.

Emilia Pérez
French director Jacques Audiard had deliberate to movie his musical crime comedy — a couple of Mexican cartel chief who undergoes a intercourse change to flee the legislation — in Mexico, however ultimately he settled on Bry-Sur-Marne Studios exterior Paris to shoot France’s submission for the worldwide characteristic movie Oscar. Audiard’s manufacturing workforce constructed an genuine Mexican backdrop on the studio, which lately benefited from a dramatic growth as a part of the France 2030 modernization plan and hosts roughly half of all French productions.

September 5
To seize the drama as ABC’s sports activities crew narrated the hostage disaster on the 1972 Munich Olympics, the manufacturing workforce of Tim Fehlbaum’s Oscar hopeful constructed an virtually good reproduction of the community’s management room at Munich’s Bavaria Studios, using a 11,300-square-foot soundstage. Set designer Julian R. Wagner and his workforce sourced unique gear from museums and personal collectors throughout Europe. The screens had been even wired and operated by the studio’s full-service put up home, Panoptimo, permitting the actors to work together with archival footage in actual time.

The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s epic tells the story of a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who journeys from Budapest to America after WWII, however the manufacturing — co-produced by Budapest-based Proton Cinema — didn’t journey almost as far. Manufacturing designer Judy Becker and her workforce used the streets of the Hungarian capital to recreate mid-century American suburbia, getting an help from Hungary’s Nationwide Movie Institute, which supplied assist within the type of a 30% tax incentive, in addition to the lab that processed all 26 reels of Corbet’s 70mm movie inventory.