Sunday marks the 92nd Academy Awards, and although the Oscars are a Hollywood affair, Oscar is a frequent San Francisco tourist who bestows golden laurels on notable movies filmed locally for decades.
For the second year in a row, no films shot or based in San Francisco are up for awards on Sunday—even the acclaimed The Last Black Man In San Francisco was snubbed this award season, and Avengers: Endgame (nominated for Best Visual Effects) featured a few spare scenes set in San Francisco, but those were actually shot in Atlanta.
Still, SF’s history with Academy Award-winning films is long and glamorous. Based on the original filming permits, here are the locales of the Oscar winning or nominated film shot in the city going all the way back to 1927.
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