- He is among an elite group of six directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) Oscars for the same film. In 1984 he won all three for Lối Sống Sai Lầm (1983). The other directors are Billy Wilder (for Căn Hộ Tình Yêu (1960)), Francis Ford Coppola (for Bố Già Phần II (1974)), Peter Jackson (for Chúa Tể Của Những Chiếc Nhẫn: Sự Quay Trở Lại Của Nhà Vua (2003)), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote Không Chốn Dung Thân (2007) with each other), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu (for Người Chim (hay Công Dụng Không Ngờ Của Việc Kém Nổi Tiếng) (2014)). Brooks is the only one to do so with his directorial debut and the only one to do so without collaborators in any of the three categories.
- Has won 21 Prime Time Emmy awards--more than any person in history. As executive producer he has won 11 for Gia Đình Simpson (1989), three for Taxi (1978), three for Mary Tyler Moore (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987); as writer he won two for Mary Tyler Moore (1970) and one for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987).
- 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: Tin Tức Phát Sóng (1987).
- Owns Gracie Films, which produces Gia Đình Simpson (1989).
- His laughter is heard in the studio audience of many shows he produced, especially Taxi (1978), in which his laughter is heard through all five seasons. It appears louder than any of the other audience members, sounding like a "Haw", sustaining the "Aw" sound.
- Directed nine Oscar-nominated performances: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger, John Lithgow, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear. Nicholson, MacLaine and Hunt won Oscars for their performances in one of Brooks' movies (Nicholson twice).
- Along with Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, 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 Câu Chuyện Phía Tây (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise, Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Lối Sống Sai Lầm (1983), Costner for Khiêu Vũ Với Bầy Sói (1990) and Mendes for Vẻ Đẹp Mỹ (1999).
- He was commissioned to do a screen adaptation of Lối Sống Sai Lầm (1983) by wealthy businessman Norton Simon and his wife, the former actress Jennifer Jones, as a comeback vehicle for her. Brooks decided he didn't want to have to adapt the character of Aurora to a particular actress, and persuaded Paramount to buy the rights from the Simons. He cast Shirley MacLaine because she was the only actress who viewed the story as a comedy. When he won the screenplay Oscar, Brooks thanked Jennifer Jones Simon.
- He has directed three films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Lối Sống Sai Lầm (1983), Tin Tức Phát Sóng (1987) and Chỉ Đến Thế Mà Thôi (1997). Terms of Endearment won in the category. He also produced all three of those, as well as the Best Picture nominee Quản Lý Và Người Tình (1996).
- During the opening credits for some of the seasons of Mary Tyler Moore (1970), there is a scene of Mary by the one of the lakes in Minneapolis. During that scene, two men jog by--one of them is Brooks.
- Has been a member of of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch) since 2006.
- Father, with Marianne Catherine Morrissey, of Amy Brooks (b. 1971).
- Was best man at Norman Pearlstine's and Nancy Friday's wedding.
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