Darling (1965 film) at Anglo-Amalgamated. Shirley MacLaine was originally cast as Diana, but was replaced by Christie. Production on "Darling" commenced in August 1964 and wrapped in December.<ref name="Darling (1965) - Box office / business">Box office / business for "Darling" at the Internet Movie Database</ref> It was filmed on location in London, Paris, and Rome. The final scene was shot at Heathrow Airport in London. "New York" in 1971 wrote of mod fashion and its wearers, "This new "déclassé" English girl was epitomized by Julie Christie in "Darling"—amoral, rootless, emotionally immature, and apparently irresistible." Despite receiving many awards at the time of release,
Oscar bait success of summer blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Star Wars" (both of which had also been nominated for Best Picture), independent filmmakers refined Carr's methods of exploiting the Oscars. Merchant Ivory, who produced lavish costume dramas, often based on novels by Henry James or E. M. Forster, began to time their releases to align with the awards season. Their 1985 adaptation of Forster's "A Room with a View" won three of the eight Oscars it was nominated for. By 1991 the modern film-release calendar, in which studios released the movies they had the highest Oscar hopes for in autumn and December,