- Along with Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks, Kevin Costner and Sam Mendes, he is one of only six people to win the Academy Award for Best Director for their directorial debut: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise, Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
- Has directed 8 performers to Oscar nominations: Joe Mantell, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Shirley Knight, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Carolyn Jones, and Wendy Hiller. Borgnine (1956-Best Actor: Marty (1955)), Hiller (1959 - Best Supp. Actress - Separate Tables (1958)), and Niven (1959 - Best Actor: Separate Tables (1958)) won for their roles.
- His Film and TV papers have been given to Vanderbilt University Library in Nashvillie.
- (1967-1971) President of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 646-649. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Marty (1955).
- He claimed that Eva Renzi, his female star in The Pink Jungle (1968), was the most difficult actress he'd ever worked with.
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