- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2004.
- Teaches at Harvard University (1993)
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 630-636. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- Retrospective at the 12th New Horizons Film Festival (2012).
- Makavejev appears as one of the narrators in the 2007 Serbian documentary film Zabranjeni bez zabrane (Banned without being banned), which gives profound insight into the history and the nature of Yugoslav film censorship through its investigation of the country's distinctive political-cultural mechanisms for unofficially banning politically controversial films. The film contains original interviews with key filmmakers from the communist era.
- The director's feature film, The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), which was based on short stories by Frank Moorhouse and featured performances by Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi, is arguably his most accessible picture.
- He published two books of selected articles: Poljubac za drugaricu parolu (1960) and 24 slicice u sekundi (1965).
- Makavejev's film, Sweet Movie (1974), was the first feature work that the director produced entirely outside of Yugoslavia (the film was made in Canada).
- His 1971 movie W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (starring Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, and Ivica Vidovic) was banned in Yugoslavia due to its sexual and political content. He described authoritarian figures in the film as people who are not in control of themselves striving to control others. The political scandal surrounding Makavejev's film was symptomatic of an increasingly oppressive political climate in Yugoslavia that effectively ended the director's domestic career and resulted in his leaving Yugoslavia to live and work abroad in Europe and North America.
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