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• Award Snub: After winning a Golden Globe for this film, it was assumed that Jim Carrey would at least get an Oscar nomination, but he didn't. Amazingly, it happened again the very next year, making one wonder what it will take for him to get some Academy love.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: all of it, though Father Kolbe's Preaching is a particularly good one.
• Genius Bonus: In the scene when Truman's dad is being taken away, in the background you see two arcs with the words "Unus Pro Omnibus, Omnes Pro Uno" which translates into "One for All, All for One". This could reference to the fact that Truman's life is for the entertainment for the rest of the world, and that all of Seahaven, including the people, are there just for him.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Truman's first love, Lauren, is removed from the show when she tries to reveal the Broken Masquerade. Just before the footage of the event is played, one of the waitresses in the Truman themed bar quips "They got rid of her, but they couldn't erase the memory."
• He Really Can Act: Jim Carrey really spread his wings here and showed he could do more than just "zany".
  • In fact, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert publicly apologized to Carrey on their show for saying that he would never have a career when Ace Ventura was panned.
• Moral Event Horizon: Depending on who you ask, Christof had his when he had the idea for the show, when he faked the death of Truman's father in order to give the poor kid a crippling phobia about water, or when he capsized his boat and tried to drown him.
• Paranoia Fuel: Particularly bad is when we see Truman's best friend, someone he has known since school, manipulating him and being fed lines by the director. Then there's the part where he's looking for Truman and has childish "hide-and-seek" lines delivered in sinister fashion.
  • More broadly, the fact that if you've seen this movie, you will wonder if your life could be a similar scenario for at least a passing moment, here and there.
• Retroactive Recognition: Paul Giamatti as one of the studio techs. Peter Krause is Truman's boss.