- The first playwright to win the Tony, the Oscar, and the Pulitzer Prize.
- Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1997 as author of Best Play winner "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" and in 1999 as Best Book (Musical) for "Parade." He had also been nominated in 1976 as Best Book (Musical) for "The Robber Bridegroom."
- Won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Driving Miss Daisy" and was nominated for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo".
- He was awarded the 2010 Back Stage Garland Award for Playwriting for "Parade" in a Donmar Warehouse production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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