- Winner of NBC Screenwriter's Tribute from Nantucket Film Festival, in Mass., June, 2002
- Was an exchange student in Trondheim, Norway.
- Currently Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York, New York. (May 2003)
- Has the distinction as a producer for three films, all with gay theme/content, which have received Oscar nominations for Best Picture: Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Milk (2008) and Brokeback Mountain (2005).
- Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with friends Ted Hope and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.
- Co-President of Focus Features, the arthouse offshoot of Universal Pictures.
- His novelist wife Nancy Kricorian is a member of the antiwar activist group CodePink: Women for Peace.
- Suffered from psoriasis when he was growing up.
- He attended Kosmorama, Trondeim International Filmfestival, in 2006 with his movie "Brokeback Mountain".
- Earned three degrees from the University of California, including a Ph.D. in English.
- Studied 16mm filmmaking under Babette Mangolte at the Collective for Living Cinema in New York.
- Interned at the Wooster Group.
- Interned at Program Development Corp.
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