
The City of Oxnard welcomes motion picture production companies, television shows, commercials, still photography and student productions. Other sought-after locations include Channel Islands Harbor, Heritage Square, River Ridge Golf Club, Seabridge and the Oxnard Transit Center. The most desirable film locations include the Oxnard Beach Park, The Collection, Downtown Oxnard and the Embassy Suites by Hilton Mandalay Beach Hotel & Resort. Oxnard has also graced the pages and even the covers of fashion magazines like Vogue, featuring celebrities like Zendaya. As of 2020, two commercials are in the works, including a commercial for the California Lottery, which is filming at The Collection at RiverPark, and an international car commercial for Japan.
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In 2019, Tommy Bahama, Trina Turk and CARMAX shot TV commercials in Oxnard.
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Movie locations blogger Shaun Philipps revisits this scene from Back to the Future Part III, shot in Oxnard, California. Have fun browsing through the list of well-known movies and productions. There are additional films that have scenes from Oxnard and throughout Ventura County listed online at the Ventura County Film Commission. Other popular productions that have captured images of Oxnard include Big Little Lies, Spartacus, Clueless, Sideways, Bridesmaids and Back to the Future Part III. Scenes were captured along Capri Way in Oxnard Shores, where the actors occupied a beach house.
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The series played out the lives and loves of young adults with dramatic elements every week. Oxnard was also the setting for scenes from the popular 1990s TV show, Melrose Place. Actor Burt Reynolds, who played August, ran up the iconic museum steps at the beginning of this popular American crime drama series. The steps leading up to the Carnegie Art Museum could be seen on the 1970s hit TV show, Dan August. Romantic swashbuckler and Hollywood playboy Errol Flynn owned Oxnard’s historic pagoda house in Hollywood Beach. Locals recall sightings of Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo who vacationed here. Legendary Clark Gable was rumored to have lived in at least two houses on Oxnard’s beaches. Around the same time, Douglas Fairbanks spent time on the same dunes while filming “Bound in Morocco.” Oxnard Beach became known as ‘Hollywood by the Sea’ where it was transformed into an Arabian desert replete with paper mache palm trees for The Sheik. Even though Tinseltown was miles away, by the mid 1920s, the Hollywood brand was so strong that communities throughout Southern California were claiming it. Oxnard’s debut in the film industry started early when the blockbuster, The Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino was filmed in 1921. Its beaches, historic downtown and neighborhoods have served as backdrops in major productions. If you watch movies and television or browse through glossy magazines, you have likely seen Oxnard onscreen.
