Ceremony

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

• 1958Festival de San Sebastián · Sección Oficialselected
• 1958Festival de San Sebastián · Sección OficialConcha de plata — Alfred Hitchcock
• 1958Festival de San Sebastián · Sección OficialPremio Zulueta de interpretación Masculina — James Stewart
• 1959Academy AwardsArt Direction — Hal Pereira; Henry Bumstead; Sam Comer; Frank McKelvy · nominated
• 1959Academy AwardsSound — Paramount Studio Sound Department; George Dutton · nominated

Set in San Francisco Bay Area, California

• Filmed at San Francisco, California — Principal location footage; the film uses extensive San Francisco Bay Area locations and San Francisco street driving scenes.
• Mission San Juan Bautista, California — Tower/fall sequence location; the bell tower seen in the film was created with studio effects rather than being the real mission tower.
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County, California — Redwood forest location; source notes the park stood in for Muir Woods in Vertigo.
• Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach, California — Coastal kiss scene at Sunset Point Overlook near Cypress Point; coordinates omitted because the exact overlook point was not confirmed from an authoritative source in this pass.
• Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, California — Interior/studio work after location shooting; Mission San Juan Bautista bell tower effects were created at Paramount Studios.