Albert Finney

-With the cooperation and assistance of the London Mayor's Office and Transportation For London, the production was able to shut down both Vauxhall Bridge and Millbank for a scene where M witnesses a terrorist attack on MI6 headquarters. The explosion of the MI6 HQ was represented by a few fireworks on the day, but then an MI6 model miniature was later rebuilt at third scale on the back-lot at Pinewood Studios where long-time Bond FXpert Chris Corbould, the film's special effects and miniature effects supervisor, used twenty-eight explosives to replicate the attack.
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-First Daniel Craig James Bond movie where Bond kills the lead villain. The main villains in both Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008) were killed by their own people.
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-Skyfall Lodge is not an actual real-life building but a purpose-built exterior set construction made of just plywood and plaster stone. The custom-built artificial house in the film's story is a countryside residence, its setting is in Glencoe, Scotland but the filming location for it was actually Hankley Common in south-west Surrey.
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-Gadgets featured in the film include a tiny radio tracking device; a NFC (Near field communication) enabled Sony Xperia T smart-phone (aka "The Bond Phone"); an Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Mid-Sized Chronometer watch; an Agusta Westland Merlin AW101 helicopter with a Public Address (PA) system fitted on its undercarriage to play music; an original silver-birch Aston Martin DB5 car with various gadgets including an ejector seat (unused) and two 20mm Browning Machine Gun headlights; a Sony VAIO laptop computer; a Sony Xperia Tablet; and a hand recognition Walther PPK/S 9mm short firearm with a palm-sensitive hammer coded to James Bond's palm prints.
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-The influence of three of Ian Fleming's novels can be seen in the movie: the early sequences of Bond "missing/presumed dead" are reminiscent of the end of "You Only Live Twice" wherein Bond is suffering from amnesia and is "missing/presumed dead" and M writes the obit for the London Times. When he returns to London, the evaluation her goes through is similar to the tests he goes through at the start of "The Man With The Golden Gun" upon returning from Japan and Russian. And the emotional ending is reminiscent of the end of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" where Bond mourns the loss of his wife in his arms.
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-The explosion sequence in the film's climax was shot over two consecutive nights. It's the second consecutive Bond film where the film's climax and denouement results in the blowing-up and explosion of a landmark building. In Quantum of Solace (2008) it was a facility in the desert, in 'Skyfall' it's a mansion in the Scottish countryside. Ironically, prior to the big bang, Javier Bardem was banned from smoking at the on-set location because of the fire-risk of the dry grass in the field where the set was located.
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-Since the first James Bond film James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (1962), its only the second time in the James Bond series where 3+ new actors playing recurring characters have all been introduced simultaneously in the same Bond film. In GoldenEye (1995), three new actors were introduced in three recurring roles. They were Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Judi Dench as M and Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny. In 'Skyfall, there are also three, they are Ralph Fiennes as M, Ben Whishaw as Q and Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny. In Tuer n'est pas jouer (1987), two new actors playing recurring characters were introduced, Timothy Dalton as James Bond and Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny.
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-This film is the first time that two actors playing the character of M, in this case Judi Dench and M successor Ralph Fiennes, have shared the screen in the same scenes.
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-When Bond tracks Patrice to Shanghai, Patrice assassinates a man (identified in the credits as "Shanghai Art Collector") while he is viewing a painting. The painting is "Woman with a Fan (Luna Czechowska)", painted by Amedeo Modigliani in 1919. In reality, on May 20, 2010 this painting was stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, along with works by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. The paintings are still missing, and their collective worth has been estimated at $200 million.
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-For the first time in the EON series both the first and last name of M, Gareth Mallory, is revealed (albeit before he becomes M). Bernard Lee 's M's first name, Miles, was spoken aloud in L'espion qui m'aimait (1977) and his successor Robert Brown has been confirmed by producers to be the same Miles, and not Admiral Hargreaves (played by Brown in The Spy Who Loved Me) as some fans believe. Neither Judi Dench 's M's first or last names were ever revealed, although in Casino Royale (2006), Bond says that one of her names does begin with the letter M before being cut off by her (and some drafts of the screenplay for GoldenEye (1995) give her name as Barbara Mawdsley, but it was never spoken aloud in the final film).
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-First ever James Bond movie where the series traditional Bond car, an Aston Martin DB5, is blown-up.
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-The second time Bond cries openly. The first time was in Au service secret de Sa Majesté (1969).
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-This marks the third consecutive James Bond movie which ends with James Bond alone, where most other films in the series he is seen with one of the leading Bond Girls.