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Many movies have been produced (in part) on Columbia's campuses.

Movies filmed on campus

  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  • Altered States
  • Anger Management
Lerner Hall's exterior was used to depict a hospital in Boston
  • Awakenings
  • Black and White
  • Casino Royale (2006), Lerner Hall ramps
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Columbia Bookstore filled in for a Long Island Barnes & Noble
  • Everyone Says I Love You
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters II
  • The Graduate
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
In one scene, Woody Allen's character takes a ponderous walk past The Thinker. In another, one of the characters meets her new boyfriend, a Columbia professor, while strolling to class up The Steps
  • Hitch
Will Smith's character meets a girl after tripping on The Steps
  • K-PAX
  • Kinsey
Partly filmed in Havemeyer 309
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces
  • Malcolm X
  • Manhattan
  • Marathon Man
  • Mona Lisa Smile
Havemeyer 309 is used to depict a lecture hall at Wellesley
  • New York Minute
The Olsen Twins race across New York to reach Columbia in the nick of time. During filming, a giant clock was hung on the facade of Low Library
  • Porn 'n Chicken
  • The Producers: The Movie Musical
  • P.S.
  • Simon
  • Spider-Man
Low Library plays host to an advanced research lab, where Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider
  • Spider-Man 2
Peter Parker takes a physics class in Hamilton Hall
  • Stay
  • The Nanny Diaries
Scarlet Johannsen's character sits on one of the fountains on Low Plaza after applying to the Columbia graduate program in Anthropology
  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
One of the characters is a Columbia math professor who spends time watching students at play on Low Plaza and drives one of his students to suicide

Top filming locations

  • Inner quadrangle of Union Theological Seminary
  • Havemeyer main lecture room
  • Steps & facade of Low