With many background actors and scenes filmed on location in New Mexico. The film industry of New Mexico is abuzz with New Mexico-filmed Oppenheimer receiving 13 Oscar nominations. Production on the film began in early 2022 in Los Alamos, Abiquiú, Santa Fe, Belen and Albuquerque. A significant amount of filming of Oppenheimer took place in and around Los Alamos and Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2022.
Alamogordo was expecting a tourism bump given the movie Oscar buzz and the Trinity site typically brings many tourist for the tours. Per the US Army however the April tour of the Trinity site is cancelled. In a release from the US Army they state that due to unforeseen circumstances, the Trinity Site Open House in April is canceled.
Sources within the military said the cancellation is due to budget constraints.
The National Park Service however invites the public to visit their sites featured in the film to include the several Manhattan Project era buildings that were utilized in the making of the movie including the Oppenheimer house where J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty raised their family.