- Award Snub: Ian McKellen's performance was one of the big winners with critics groups throughout the awards season, but he ended up losing Best Actor to Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful at the Academy Awards.
- Harsher in Hindsight: James Whale sexually provoking Boone, who was played by Brendan Fraser, becomes this when in 2018, Fraser revealed that he was sexually assaulted by Philip Berk in 2003, the then-president of the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association), which led to him becoming less involved in Hollywood.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The following year after this biopic of a Universal Horror director, Brendan Fraser would star in a remake of one of the Universal Monsters.
- Fraser also starred in the movie The Whale after being in this movie about someone named James Whale.
- Spiritual Successor: Mr. Holmes, the next collaboration between Bill Condon and Ian McKellen, is similarly about an aging genius trying to make sense of his life.
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