Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.

* Won: The Truman Show ( 1999 )

The music from Anthem: Part 2 was used in the 1998 film The Truman Show and several film trailers, including Dead Man Walking.

* The Truman Show

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

After five years, Weir returned to direct his biggest success to date, The Truman Show ( 1998 ), a fantasy-satire of the media's control of life.

The Truman Show was both a box office and a critical success, receiving positive reviews and numerous awards, including three Academy Award nominations: Andrew Niccol for Best Original Screenplay, Ed Harris for Best Supporting Actor, and Weir himself for Best Director.

They were beaten by The Truman Show and " The Prayer " from Quest for Camelot respectively.

* Truman Burbank, the main ( fictional ) character in The Truman Show.

Carrey received critical acclaim for his chameleonic performance and won a Golden Globe — his second win in a row after receiving an award for The Truman Show previously.

Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.

Giamatti appeared in a number of supporting roles in the 1998 big-budget films including The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, and The Negotiator.

The film The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey had a similar plot as well.

Seaside is now a tourist destination and appeared in the movie The Truman Show.

He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13, The Truman Show and The Hours, along with an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for the title role in Pollock.

The film opened in second place at the box office behind The Truman Show, taking $ 16, 615, 704 during its first weekend.

* The Truman Show, a comedy movie starring Jim Carrey

The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol.

The genesis of The Truman Show was a spec script by Niccol, inspired by an episode of The Twilight Zone called " Special Service ".

The Truman Show has been analyzed as a thesis on Christianity, simulated reality, existentialism and the rise of reality television.

Truman Burbank ( Jim Carrey ) lived his entire life, since before birth, in front of cameras for The Truman Show, although he is unaware of this fact.

During the 30th year of " The Truman Show ", Truman begins to notice certain aspects of his near-perfect world that seem out of place, such as a falling spotlight from the artificial night sky constellations that nearly hits him ( quickly passed off by local radio as an aircraft's dislodged landing light ) and Truman's car radio accidentally picking up conversation between the show's crew.

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

Clark McAdams Clifford ( December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998 ) was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson.

Not long after a final, frail appearance in the 1997 PBS television documentary Truman, Clifford died from natural causes in 1998 at age 91.

The Truman Shows original theatrical release date was August 8, 1998, but Paramount Pictures considered pushing it back to around Christmas.

* ER, playing " John Truman Carter, Sr .," 1998 and 2001

The 1998 film The Truman Show utilized the concept, although in a manner different than other films.

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman ( 1998 ) excerpt and text search

* The Truman Show, 1998 film

McCormack later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in the American sitcom Will & Grace, which premiered in September 1998.

McCormack received his break-through role in 1998 when he was cast as lawyer Will Truman on NBC's sitcom Will & Grace, a series centered on a gay man ( Will ) and his Jewish best friend ( Grace ).

The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show ( 1998 ).

His Proust Among The Stars ( 1998 ) won the 2001 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Fictional examples of aptronyms include Mr. Talkative and Mr. Worldly Wiseman in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ), Truman Burbank ( true-man ), the lead character in the 1998 film The Truman Show, the principal cast of the Mr. Men ( 1971 ), and all the characters in Marc Blitzstein's 1937 play The Cradle Will Rock.

Sections from the soundtrack have been featured in other films, perhaps most notably the piece ' Mishima / Opening ', which was used to score the end credits of Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show.

* Dewey Defeats Truman: a novel ( 3 editions published between 1996 and 1998 )

* The Truman Show, a 1998 comedy-drama film that chronicles the life of a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality soap opera, televised 24 / 7.

Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

The Cold War ( 1947 – 1953 ) is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.

Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans ' Hospital is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.

“ There is no prospect of ever winning Russian cooperation .” Despite its reservations, the 80th Congress implemented Truman ’ s requests, further escalating the Cold War with the USSR.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.

Beginning in 1947 during the Harry S. Truman administration, every Thanksgiving the president is presented with a live domestic turkey during the annual national thanksgiving turkey presentation held at the White House.

The Department is headquartered in the Harry S. Truman Building located at 2201 C Street, NW, a few blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Harry Truman | Truman reconstruction, 1949 – 1952, a steel structure is built within the exterior shell.

* July 8 – WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.

* November 15 – The Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas is brutally murdered, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

* November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball (' The Party of the Century ') is held in New York City.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a " cult figure " with many critics.

He is the subject of the song " Harry Truman " written and recorded by Irish band Headgear, which features the refrain, " You can move the mountain but I'm never coming down ".

" It is not known whether the writer of the film had Truman in mind when creating this character.

He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".

The Mutual Security Act of 1951 is a United States federal law, signed on October 10, 1951 by President Harry S. Truman, which authorized nearly $ 7. 5 billion for foreign military, economic, and technical foreign aid to American allies ; the aid was aimed primarily at shoring up Western Europe, as the Cold War developed.

Truman announced before describing his proposal that: " This is not socialized medicine ".