- The MGM animation staff, especially Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, despised Quimby when he was head of the animation department. They felt he was a useless bore who had no love or talent in the medium but still fought with the artists continually over their creative ideas. The fact that he always took the credit for the awards won for the cartoons was especially galling.
- Won 4 consecutive Oscars between 1944-1947, in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
- Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby on The Simpsons (1989) is named after him.
- He has produced one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Magical Maestro (1952).
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