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Boston has been a star in two recent high-profile films, Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” the director’s latest collaboration with Mark Wahlberg, and Ben Affleck’s “Live by Night”. The two films have more than the city in common, though — they share the same location manager, Mark Fitzgerald, a native of Framingham, Mass., whose deep knowledge of the area helped both projects.

All of them are real places where Oscar-nominated movies were filmed.

With “Manchester by the Sea,” Amazon Studios has made history, becoming the first streaming service to land a best picture Oscar nomination.

Variety.com Variety staff January 24, 017 Oscar nominees for the 89th annual awards were announced on Tuesday morning during a live-streamed event filmed in six cities around the globe. Academy …

A movie filmed in Brockton is coming soon to a theater near you.

By Terry Date Daily News January 13, 2017 Back in the fall of 2015, Lawrence residents got a front-row seat to see Massachusetts native and Hollywood star Ben Affleck make …

By BAFTA.org January 10, 2017 The nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in plain text: • Browse the categories (additional imagery & information) • View the press release …

Many of the films nominated for awards this season explore specific, off-the-beaten-path parts of America. “Manchester by the Sea”—produced by Matt Damon and nominated for five Golden Globes, including Best Picture—portrays the working class fishing neighborhoods along Massachusetts’s North Shore.

The first round of congratulations is coming in for the Golden Globes nominees. First up, Matt Damon, producer of “Manchester by the Sea”

By Vanity fair December 12, 2016 There was lots of love for La La Land and Moonlight from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. On Monday morning, Don Cheadle, Laura Dern, …

By Variety Staff Variety.com The Critics’ Choice Awards took place on Sunday, honoring the critics picks for the best movies and television of the year. SEE MORE: Awards: The Contenders …

Manchester by the Sea Official Trailer- LIMITED RELEASE NOV. 18TH

LIVE BY NIGHT was partially filmed in Boston, Lawrence and North Andover, Massachusetts in 2015.

New England’s Largest Media Conversation, November 5th at WGBH

PATRIOT’S DAY, was filmed in filmed in Boston, Cambridge, Framingham, Hopkinton, Malden, Natick, Newton, Peabody, Quincy, Rockland, Somerville, Weymouth and Woburn, Massachusetts this year. IN THEATERS SOON

LIVE BY NIGHT, was filmed in filmed in Boston, Lawrence and North Andover, Massachusetts in 2015. IN THEATERS JANUARY 2017

Boston Magazine By Matt Juul September 9, 2016 The first teaser trailer for Ben Affleck’s upcoming Boston-set movie Live by Night hit the web on Thursday. Although we’ve seen the …

It’s not smooth sailing for Casey Affleck in the first trailer for “Manchester by the Sea.

Nixon plays Emily Dickinson in a biopic about the brilliant American poet’s troubled and lonely life. The film follows her upbringing in 1830s Amherst, Massachusetts all the way to her final years when she wrote hundreds of poems in total seclusion.

Watch new US trailer for Matthew McConaughey’s The Sea of Trees