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Travel the World with Oscar

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) on Feb 22nd 2007 at 8:27AM

In years past, local tourist boards saw generous spikes in traffic after popular movies featured the locations they tout. For example, both Alberta and Wyoming enjoyed gobs of slack-jawed, cash-carrying visitors last year after Brokeback Mountain won all those accolades. If you want to travel to the locations in which this year's Best Picture-nominated films were set, here's where you'd have to go.

The nominees for best picture are:

Babel -- To visit the locations in this whirling dervish of a film, you'd better make sure your passport is current. After all, you'll be heading to Morocco, Japan, and Mexico.
The Departed -- Set in Boston, lucky movie-set-hunters may also get to see where Good Will Hunting was filmed.
Letters From Iwo Jima -- Next month, Military Historical Tours will visit Iwo Jima on the 62nd anniversary of the historic Battle.
Little Miss Sunshine -- Road trip!!! Follow the dysfunctional Hoover family's path along Route 66. Just be certain to have a more dependable vehicle.
The Queen -- Filmed in Scotland, the movie mainly uses stand-ins for the locations on film, but persistent travelers can book cottages at Balmoral Castle.

Personally, I'd like to visit Uganda, but The Last King of Scotland didn't get a nod for Best Picture. Nevertheless, the 79th Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday. You can book your travel any time you like.

Filed under: Festivals and Events, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Morocco, Japan, United Kingdom, Mexico, United States

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