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Austin

capital city of the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Travis County

🇺🇸 United States · 30.3000, -97.7333

Austin is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Austin, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 29 more. 2 video games are also set here.

9 places inside Austin have a page of their own — listed below. Everything shot at them is already named above, recorded against Austin as well.

“The film was shot in the Santa Fe area from March 22 to April 27, 2010, as well as in Texas (Bartlett, Granger, and Austin).”

True Grit (2010) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Austin

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Austin as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

True Grit 2010
Alita: Battle Angel 2019
“The film began shooting at Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas on October 17, 2016, and concluded on February 9, 2017.” Wikipedia
The Tree of Life 2011
“Locations included Smithville, Houston, Matagorda, Bastrop, Austin, Dallas, and Malick's hometown of Waco.” Wikipedia
Predators 2010
“The film shot its interior set scenes at Robert Rodriguez's studio in Austin, Texas.” Wikipedia
Machete 2010
Miss Congeniality 2000
“The majority of the film was shot in Austin, Texas: scenes depicting the interior of the St. Regis were shot in Austin's Driskill Hotel; the pageant scenes were shot at the Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas at Austin; and scenes depicting the pageant contestants in their hotel rooms were shot in the Omni Austin at South Park.” Wikipedia
Blood Simple 1984
“Blood Simple was shot in several locations in the towns of Austin and Hutto, Texas, over a period of eight weeks in the fall of 1982.” Wikipedia
A Perfect World 1993
“The film was shot in Austin, Texas, and Martindale, Texas, in between San Marcos and Lockhart in the spring and summer of 1993.” Wikipedia
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
Spy Kids 2001
“Most of Spy Kids 48 days of filming was in Austin, Texas in 2000, although some exterior shots were done in the countries of South America.” Wikipedia
Friday the 13th 2009
Chef 2014
The Life of David Gale 2003
“The Life of David Gale was shot in multiple places, including several notable locations in Austin, Barcelona, and Huntsville, Texas, such as Sam Houston State University, Ellis Unit, The University of Texas at Austin, and Plaça Reial.” Wikipedia
Fear the Walking Dead 2015–2023
“Filming for the fourth season began in early 2018 in various locations around Austin, Texas, including the Dell Diamond baseball stadium in nearby Round Rock, the vacant Brackenridge Hospital in downtown Austin, and the flood-damaged Onion Creek neighborhood.” Wikipedia
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning 2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986
Dazed and Confused 1993
“Although the film was shot in Austin, it was inspired by Linklater's time growing up in East Texas and no town name is ever given.” Wikipedia
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation 1994
The Faculty 1998
“The Faculty takes place in the fictional town of Herrington, Ohio, but was shot in Austin, San Marcos, Dallas, and Lockhart, Texas.” Wikipedia
Office Space 1999
“By the third day of shooting, temperatures had risen to over 100 °F (38 °C), and smoke from fires in Mexico was filling the sky over Austin, making it white.” Wikipedia
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 2002
A Scanner Darkly 2006
Parkland 2013
Fast Food Nation 2006
“The film was shot on location in Austin and Houston, Texas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as in Mexico.” Wikipedia
Everybody Wants Some!! 2016
Song to Song 2017
Purple Hearts 2022
Love and Death 2023–
Open Windows 2014

Filming locations inside Austin

9 places inside Austin, each with a page of their own. Every production shot at them is already listed above, because Wikidata records them against Austin too.

Named here by Austin’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Austin, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Fear the Walking Dead 2015–2023

“Season 4 of the AMC show Fear the Walking Dead was filmed in various locations around Austin in 2018.” Wikipedia

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Austin?

32 productions are recorded as filmed in Austin, including Idiocracy (2006), Courage Under Fire (1996) and The Leftovers (2014–2017). 29 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Austin?

Idiocracy (2006), covered by 41 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Austin?

Austin is in the United States, at 30.3000, -97.7333.

What other filming locations are near Austin?

Bastrop, Round Rock, Hamilton Pool Preserve, University of Texas at Austin and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0.