The interior of the vacant school, which is next to the new high school on Coddington Street, will be the setting for scenes that are tentatively scheduled to be filmed starting next month, said Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Mayor Thomas Koch.

After receiving a public relations boost from the Academy Award-nominated films “The Fighter” and “The Social Network” and Golden Globe nominee “The Town” – all filmed in Massachusetts – state officials are looking to capitalize by attracting more major motion pictures to the Bay State.

As Oscar season enters its homestretch, Academy voters receive their final ballots, consensus gels around the favorites—and one name you hear over and over is Melissa Leo. She’s already won a Golden Globe and a SAG award for her portrayal of Alice Ward, the tough-as-nails Massachusetts mother in The Fighter.

“The Social Network,” “The Town,” and “The Fighter” — all filmed in and around Boston — received a total of 16 Oscar nominations Tuesday. The nominations included Best Picture and Best Director nods, along with possible awards for actors Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Renner.

Dicky Eklund’s last stop yesterday was Sully’s Tuxedos in Lowell. “The Fighter’’ had received an impressive seven Oscar nominations, and Eklund was thinking about what he might wear when Hollywood hands out the hardware Feb. 27.

Hollywood tilted significantly and decisively to the Northeast yesterday. An unusually high percentage of nominations for the 83d annual Academy Awards went to movies set in Boston and its environs, and featuring actors either from Massachusetts or playing local natives.

The Academy Award bounty for Mark Wahlberg’s “The Fighter” and Harvard-to-Facebook tale “The Social Network” — and a Best Supporting Actor nod for Jeremy Renner, who played a bank-robbing Charlestown punk in Ben Affleck’s “The Town,”

Because Pittsburgh’s steel mills have vanished, John Wells shot “The Company Men” in Boston.

The Hollywood Radio and Press Foundation opened their annual Golden Globes ceremony by naming Christian Bale this year’s best supporting actor for his portrayal of Dicky Eklund in The Fighter.

“The Social Network,’’ the story of the founding of Facebook at Harvard University, won best motion picture, drama, best director, best screenplay and best score at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

A complete list of recipients at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 68th Golden Globe Awards, presented last night in Los Angeles.

With a nod to Mark Wahlberg’s and author Dennis Lehane’s Dorchester ties, and the successes of locals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Denby wonders aloud whether this trend amounts to a “last united stand in multicultural America.” Denby declares “In part because the Boston talk has so much salt, “The Fighter” and “Company Men” are among the best movies of the year.”

All of our shooting was done “on location,” meaning we really didn’t use any sets or studio space. Often times we were shooting in live, working environments, which presented its own set of challenges, mostly related to sound. We shot in New Bedford, Fairhaven, Westport, Fall River, and even out at sea on a commercial fishing boat.

“Boston must have a wicked awesome agent: Beantown and its burbs were everywhere.”

When Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell asked the 62-year-old Lowell police sergeant, Mickey O’Keefe, to play himself in “The Fighter,’’ the new, critically lauded film about boxer “Irish’’ Micky Ward, his first reaction was to laugh them off.

Three Massachusetts-made movies — “The Fighter,’’ “The Social Network’’ and “The Town’’ — copped a whopping 13 Golden Globe nominations yesterday, a sure-fire coming attraction that Bay State flicks will dominate this year’s Oscars.

Mark Wahlberg scored a knockout with the Golden Globes.
Wahlberg received a nod as lead actor in a drama for his role as a struggling boxer at odds with his family in “The Fighter,” which he also produced. The acclaimed drama nabbed a total of six Golden Globe nominations, including motion picture (drama).