Trivia: Roberto Benigni became the first Italian actor in more than 35 years to win an Oscar for an acting role. The last winner was Sophia Loren. His unexpecting Oscar win for "Best Actor" marked only the second time that an actor had directed himself in an Academy Award winning performance. The other was Laurence Olivier for Hamlet (1948). Benigni also became the first actor to win a best actor oscar for an non-English speaking role.
Trivia: In the scene where the bass singer meets the convenor for the first time, the bass singer calls the bird 'Papageno' (the convenor corrects it to 'Paganini'). Papageno is, of course, the bird in Mozart's 'Magic Flute'.
Trivia: In the trailer, there is a scene in which a purple Geo Tracker is doing a 180 degree turn. This scene is not in the film.
Trivia: When they are showing the magazines with Orgazmo on the front for the film's publicity, on the front of the GQ magazine, it shows Trey Parker and Matt Stone as being article writers for the magazine.
Trivia: There were 4 trials for Jim Williams , not 1. The 4th and final trial took place in Augusta, Georgia, Not Atlanta.
Trivia: This film was shot in New Canaan, CT, but rather than shooting in the winter, which would make the most sense, they brought in dead foliage and made fake ice and shot it in late spring and early summer. To make the film more dramatic, they also spliced together scenes from locations miles away, not the distance indicated in the movie.
Trivia: The mars shuttle is a space shuttle type craft. It has different wings which are more curved and also smaller. When the shuttle is launched the moviemakers have simply used a genuine space-shuttle scene, where the shuttle has completely different wings.
Trivia: When Brad is trying to get back to Brooke's house he gets on a bus. The bus driver goes crazy when he has no money. If you look closely on the top of the bus you can see the number 2525. The same bus number from Speed.
Trivia: Random point. The hiker who stops Ewan McGregor during his escape is Timothy Olyphant, in only his second film role. You may not know the name, but he went on to play the killer in Scream 2, a drug dealer in Go, and a detective in Gone in 60 Seconds. Well, I was surprised.
Trivia: This film was supposed to be a sequel to "Conan the Destroyer" under the title "Conan the Conqueror" but Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to reprise the role. The film title was changed to "Kull the Conqueror" for television actor Kevin Sorbo.
Trivia: Stephen King makes a cameo appearance as the band conductor of the 'ghostly' Gage Creed Orchestra.
Trivia: Alex Whitman's (played by Matthew Perry) dad, Richard, is played by John Bennett Perry, Matthew Perry's real-life father.
Trivia: The original words to "My Own Little Corner" are: I'm a slave in Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru." For obvious reasons, those lyrics were changed to "I'm a thief in Calcutta."
Trivia: The pony girl was Costner's daughter. The boy of the letter (Postman's horse stunt) was Costner's son.
Trivia: The final party scene was filmed over a three night period at the real Palace Hotel. To save money, the same food was used all three nights, which stank up the place for days.
Trivia: The scene in which the Jackal kills Douglas was re-shot at Bruce Willis' request. He wanted to show that Douglas was killed because he knew too much about the Jackal's identity, instead of simply because he was gay. (01:32:00)
Trivia: The final film directed by legendary actor, comedian, and filmmaker Carl Reiner (he continued to work, albeit primarily as an actor and writer).
Trivia: In the original ending as intended, the "King" of the Judas Breed wouldn't be killed by the train, but would rather in silhouette form back into a human "mimic." He'd step out of the shadows to reveal the perfect image of a nude human male. He would then point at Susan and in English tell her to "leave", implying that the Judas Breed had reached such a stage in their evolution to be able to perfectly mimic human beings, even down to speech patterns. This was in keeping with the original, much more apocalyptic tone of the story before script-changes forced by the producers.
Trivia: Cathy Moriarty (born 1960) is only six years older than Mary Stuart Masterson (born 1966), who plays her daughter.