Saturn Award Best Single Television Presentation "Fail Safe" 2001
Humanitas Prize PBS/Cable "Miss Evers' Boys" 1997
IFP Gotham Award Writer 1996
Writers Guild of America Award Best Screenplay "The Front" 1977
2000 Adapted 1964 screenplay of "Fail Safe" for a live broadcast starring George Clooney
1999 Penned the teleplay for the CBS movie "Durango"
1997 Adapted David Feldshuh's award-winning play "Miss Evers' Boys" into an acclaimed HBO movie
1995 Provided the story for the WWII-era drama about interracial love, "The Affair"
1991 Directed and wrote the "Return to Kansas City" segment of the HBO anthology "Women & Men II"
1988 Scripted "The House on Carroll Street"
1980 Film directing debut (also writer), "Little Miss Marker"
1979 Contributed to the script of "Yanks"
1978 Produced and wrote two pilots for a proposed series about a detective named "Sparrow"; neither sold
1977 Had bit part as Annie's date outside movie theater in "Annie Hall"
1977 Penned the screenplay adaptation of "Semi-Tough"
1976 Appeared in feature-length documentary "Hollywood on Trial"
1976 Scripted the blacklist-themed drama "The Front", starring Woody Allen
1970 First film as co-producer (with director Martin Ritt), "The Molly Maguires"; also wrote screenplay
1964 Penned the screenplay for "Fail Safe", directed by Lumet
1960 Did uncredited screenwriting on "The Magnificent Seven"
1959 First screenwriting credit after blacklisting, "That Kind of Woman", directed by Sidney Lumet
1948 First film credit (as co-adaptor), "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"
While staff sergeant in the Army during WWII wrote "Reporter-at-Large" column for The New Yorker and was roving correspondent for Yank magazine; became staff writer for The New Yorker
Blacklisted during the 1950s