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Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
2004 | Peter
Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | Peter
Best Supporting Performance | 2003 | Peter
Best Supporting Performance Male | 2003 | Peter
Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | Peter
Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | Peter
Democracy | 2004
Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 2004 | Peter
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 2004 | Billy
Best First Feature | 2004 | Billy
Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Best Screenplay | 2004 | Billy
Best Supporting Male | 2004 | Peter
Best Cinematography | 2004 | Mandy
Best Feature | 2004 | Craig
Expos | 2004
Best Screenplay Adapted | 2004 | Billy
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | 2004 | Hayden
Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Overlooked Film of the Year | 2004
Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Best Independent | 2004
Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Peter
Best First Feature | 2003
Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | Peter
Best Supporting Actor | 2003 | Peter
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,944,752 USD
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Many members of the test audience didn't believe the story was true. They thought no real-life magazine would have so many journalists in their early to mid 20s, even though the New Republic did. A place card added to the opening of the film stated that the median age of journalists working for the New Republic was 26.
Melanie Lynskey had no costume changes. She wore the same outfit throughout the movie.
The real Stephen Glass was offered a role. He declined.
Billy Ray initially had a very hard time convincing the real-life Michael Kelly to assist in the production of the movie. Kelly was editor of the New Republic when many of Stephen Glass' fraudulent articles were published, and he was very embarrassed about them. Ray eventually persuaded Kelly to help him by telling him that he was approaching this story as a journalist who wanted the script to be as factually accurate as possible.
Charles Lane, who was the real-life editor of The New Republic, was invited by writer/director Billy Ray to observe filming of some of the movie's scenes. The one scene shot while he was in attendance was the one where the TNR writers bad-mouth Lane behind his back.
"Stephen Glass: [Outside the closed restaurant] I didn't do anything wrong, Chuck. Chuck Lane: I really wish you'd stop saying that."
"Caitlin Avey: [in the lobby of their office building] What the hell did you do to Steve? He called me from his car, hysterical. I asked him what was wrong, he said, "ask Chuck?" Chuck Lane: [shouting] I fired him, okay? Not suspended, fired. Because this wasn't an isolated incident Caitlin. He cooked a dozen of them, maybe more. And we're going to have to go through them, you and I. We're going to have to go through all of them, now. Caitlin Avey: No, the only one was Hack Heaven. He told me that himself. Chuck Lane: If he were a stranger to you, if he was a guy you were doing a piece about, pretend that guy told you he'd only did it once. Would you take his word for it? Of course not! You'd dig and you'd bury him! And you'd feel offended if anyone told you not to. Caitlin Avey: Every one of those pieces was fact-checked, they were all... Chuck Lane: So was Hack Heaven! Caitlin Avey: [pause] Chuck Lane: You're a good reporter. You've always been such a smart and thorough reporter, why can't you be one now? Caitlin Avey: Cause what you're telling me just is impossible, Chuck. Chuck Lane: Go upstairs. Read 'em again. Caitlin Avey: This is bullshit! Chuck Lane: And make sure you go all the way back, because half of them ran when Mike was still here. Caitlin Avey: That's what this is. Of course. I mean, what are you going to do, Chuck, pick us off, one by one? Everybody that was loyal to Mike, till you have a staff that belongs to you? Is that the kind of magazine you want to run? Chuck Lane: Caitlin, when this thing blows, there isn't going to be a magazine anymore. If you want to make this about Mike, make it about Mike. I don't give a shit. You can resent me, you can hate me, but come Monday morning, we're all going to have to answer for what we let happen here. We're all going to have an apology to make! Jesus Christ! Don't you have any idea how much shit we're about to eat? Every competitor we ever took a shot at, they're going to pounce. And they should. Because we blew it, Caitlin. He handed us fiction after fiction and we printed them all as fact. Just because... we found him "entertaining." It's indefensible. Don't you know that? Chuck Lane: [Chuck leaves]"
