Where was Spotlight filmed?
2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy
Spotlight (2015) was filmed in Toronto, Boston and Hamilton — 3 recorded filming locations in Canada, the United States. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Toronto
🇨🇦 Canada
capital and largest city of the province of Ontario, Canada
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🏙 Towns & cities
Hamilton
🇨🇦 Canada
city in Ontario, Canada
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🏙 Towns & cities
Boston
🇺🇸 United States
capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and seat of Suffolk County
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 6 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
University of Toronto
🇨🇦 Canada
public research university in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada
“The brief scene in which Rezendes watches a children's church choir perform "Silent Night" was filmed in St. Basil's Church (Toronto), a Roman Catholic church on the University of Toronto campus.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
McMaster University
🇨🇦 Canada
public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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🏙 Towns & cities
Dorchester
🇺🇸 United States
neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Fenway Park
🇺🇸 United States
ballpark in Boston, Massachusetts; home of the Boston Red Sox
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Boston Public Library
🇺🇸 United States
library system in Boston, Massachusetts
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
St. Basil's Church
🇨🇦 Canada
church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada affiliated with St. Michael's College
Also shot in these places
- Good Will Hunting 1997
- The Day After Tomorrow 2004
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
- X-Men 2000
- Chicago 2002
- Black Mirror 2011–
- The Incredible Hulk 2008
- X2 2003
- American Psycho 2000
- Mean Girls 2004
- X-Men: The Last Stand 2006
Set in the same places
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
- The Last of Us
- Fallout 4
- Assassin's Creed III
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- SimCity
- The Last of Us: Left Behind
- The Last of Us Part I
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction per its source work 2022
More filmed in Canada
Every filming location in Canada →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Spotlight have?
3 places recorded on Wikidata, and 6 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 2 countries.
In which countries was Spotlight filmed?
Canada and the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Good Will Hunting (1997), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.