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Casting Director of the Year For and | 2006 | Francine
Casting Director of the Year | 2006 | Francine
Best Original Screenplay | 2006 | Zach
Screenplay | 2007 | Zach
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2007 | Will
Best Writing | 2007 | Zach
Best Supporting Actress | 2007 | Emma
Best Actress | 2007 | Maggie
Best Actor | 2007 | Will
Best Fantasy Film | 2007
Best Original Screenplay | 2007 | Zach
British Supporting Actress of the Year | 2007 | Emma
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2006 | Will
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2006
Best Actress in a Comedic Performance | 2006 | Emma
Best Comedy by or About Women | 2006 | Marc
Budget 30,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 53,653,224 USD
While filming, Will Ferrell wore an earpiece that fed him Dame Emma Thompson's narrative lines, in order to assist the other cast members in reacting more naturally to Ferrell's seemingly non-sequitur lines.
A single page of the book can be glimpsed if this movie is paused, while Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) is reading it. The page quotes word-for-word the opening narration of this movie as Harold goes about his day. The page also contains a detail that is not mentioned otherwise, Harold's co-worker Diane Gordon has been in love with him since the eighth grade, but is too shy to say so, and in the shown page when Harold requests a file from her, she asks for clarification in the hopes he might once say "good morning" to her.
When Harold is asked the product of 67 and 453, he actually gives the correct answer, "30,351", the first time. His second answer of "31,305" is incorrect.
The last names of all of the characters (and the bus line and publishing firm names) are the names of mathematicians, scientists, engineers, artists, et cetera, (Harold) Francis Crick, with Watson and Wilkins, found the structure of DNA; (Ana) Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher; (Karen) Gustave Eiffel, engineer and designer of the Eiffel Tower; (Penny) M.C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist; (Dr.) Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician; (Professor Jules) David Hilbert, German mathematician; (Doctor) Gerardus Mercator, sixteenth century Flemish cartographer; (Kronecker Bus Line) Leopold Kronecker, German-born mathematician and logician; (Banneker Press) Benjamin Banneker, free African-American mathematician, astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher; (Dr. Cayly) Arthur Cayley, nineteenth century British mathematician. Even Dave (no last name) seems to be a reference to the main character from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). It is speculated that these characters can possibly be the "heroes" of the writer.
Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman) creates a questionnaire of twenty-three items for Harold Crick (Will Ferrell). Professor David Hilbert, the German mathematician, proposed a famous list of twenty-three problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. Hilbert's problems became so famous that they are typically referred to by number amongst mathematicians and philosophers, and several are still unanswered.
"Professor Jules Hilbert: No, why did you change the book? Kay Eiffel: Lots of reasons. I realized I just couldn't do it. Professor Jules Hilbert: Because he's real? Kay Eiffel: Because it's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die and then dies. But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway, dies willingly, knowing he could stop it, then... I mean, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
"Harold Crick: I brought you flours."
