Film-Making the Scottish Connection

As Hollywood counts down to the 90th Academy Awards, VisitScotland is celebrating Scotland’s own stars of the big screen in a special map linking this year’s Oscar contenders with film locations across the country.

Six Degrees of Scotland, created by the national tourism organisation, connects each of the Best Actor and Best Actress nominees with a movie filmed on-location in Scotland – in just six simple steps.

Each actor links to the next by a film they have appeared in together, until the chain reaches the Scottish film.

It is inspired by the six degrees of separation theory in which everyone in the world can be connected to each other in six steps or fewer, and with about 50 million people world-wide claiming Scottish ancestry, there are already plenty of connections to be made to Scotland.

VisitScotland hopes Six Degrees of Scotland will boost film tourism by encouraging film fans to not only set-jet (visit the locations of the films) but come up with more Hollywood links of their own.

The 90th Academy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, 4 March.

Six Degrees of Scotland connects:
•Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread) to Mrs Brown (filmed at Duns Castle, Scottish Borders)
•Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) to Macbeth (filmed at various locations on Isle of Skye)
•Denzel Washington (Roman J Israel, Esq) to Whisky Galore (2016) (filmed at Portsoy, Aberdeenshire)
•Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) to Mission Impossible (filmed footage on the Annan to Dumfries rail line, Dumfries and Galloway)
•Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) to Monty Python and the Holy Grail (filmed at Castle Stalker, Argyll)
•Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) to Skyfall (filmed at Glen Coe, Highlands)
•Meryl Streep (The Post) to Trainspotting (filmed at various locations in Edinburgh)
•Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) to Rob Roy (filmed at Drummond Castle Gardens, Perthshire)
•Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) to The Da Vinci Code (filmed at Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian)
•Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) to Highlander (filmed at Eilean Donan Castle, Kyle of Lochalsh)