Received several International Film Festival Awards, in 2006, for his Oscar-nominated short film, The Little Matchgirl (2006).
Nominated for a Tony award, for co-writing the book for Disney's
Broadway musical, The Lion King.
Presented his new short film The Little Matchgirl (2006) at the premiere of a revival/promotional screening of the 1989 Disney classic The Little Mermaid (1989) at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on September 7th, 2006. (September 2006)
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: The Lion King (1994).