Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning and there isn’t much that’s local about this year’s Oscar slate, with one luminous exception. “Train Dreams,” Clint Bentley’s hauntingly lovely adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2002 novella, was filmed in Washington state, with locations including Spokane, Snoqualmie, Tekoa, Metaline Falls and Colville. It received four nominations — for best picture, cinematography, original song and adapted screenplay.
Johnson’s novella was set in the Pacific Northwest, in early 20th-century Eastern Washington and Idaho. Bentley, in making the film, made the decision early to shoot “Train Dreams” in the settings that inspired the author. “The forests feel a very specific way that they don’t elsewhere,” he told The Seattle Times last fall, “and I wanted to be true to the story.”
“Train Dreams,” which stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones and William H. Macy, is currently streaming on Netflix. The Oscar ceremony will take place Sunday, March 15.
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