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.

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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 ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.

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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.

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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.

In 1981, Art Carney portrayed Truman in the docu-drama film St. Helens.

Truman was the subject of the book Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain written by his niece Shirley Rosen and was portrayed by Art Carney in the 1981 docu-drama film St. Helens.

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

Wesley Morris of the San Francisco Examiner called the film " a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautifully assesses the nature of facades.

* In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, based on the novel, Tigellinus ( played by Ralph Truman ) is ( unhistorically ) stabbed to death by a soldier spectator at the cry of A sword from Plautius!

* Tony Goldwyn portrayed Clifford in the HBO television film Truman ( 1995 ).

Both the play and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States Harry S. Truman.

Carrey, who is normally paid $ 20 million per film, agreed to do The Truman Show for $ 12 million.

Paramount was cautious about The Truman Show which they dubbed " the most expensive art film ever made " because of its $ 60 million budget.

" He deemed it an eerie coincidence that Big Brother made its debut a year after the film's release, and he also compared the film to the 2003 program The Joe Schmo Show: " Unlike Truman, Matt Gould could see the cameras, but all of the other contestants were paid actors, playing the part of various reality-show stereotypes.

Simone Knox, in her essay " Reading The Truman Show inside out " argues that the film itself tries to blur the objective perspective and the show-within-the-film.

Based on 99 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Truman Show received an average 95 % overall " Certified Fresh " approval rating, including a 90 % among 20 critics in Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " poll ; the websites consensus states " A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.

Gold named the syndrome " The Truman Show Delusion " after the film and attributed the delusion to a world that had become hungry for publicity.

Similarly, the original Truman Capote novella on which Breakfast at Tiffany's was based ended with Holly Golightly's going off to Brazil and disappearing from the protagonist's life — while in the film it was changed to her accepting the love he offered her and their famous kiss in the rain.

Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).