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Travel the World with Oscar
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.
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