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The eleventh person and seventh man to receive the status of EGOT. The other recipients (chronologically) are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber,Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, Viola Davis and Elton John.

Was reportedly the inspiration for Buddy Ackerman (played by Kevin Spacey) in Swimming with Sharks (1994).

Was President of 20th Century Fox in 1986.

Left Paramount Pictures to head up the Walt Disney Company's Miramax Films, after Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein left to create a new independent film studio. After Sherry Lansing (retired chairman and CEO of Paramount) and Jonathan Dolgen (former president of Paramount) left, he said that: "I had a hugely emotional response to Sherry and John leaving and the heart went out of the place for me." (Source: Oscarwatch.com). [2005].

He has produced or executive produced eleven films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Hours (2002), The Queen (2006), No Country for Old Men (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Social Network (2010), True Grit (2010), Moneyball (2011), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Captain Phillips (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Fences (2016) and Lady Bird (2017). No Country for Old Men won in the category.

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) was originally considered by Paramount Pictures (the studio at which Rudin had a production deal with), but Paramount turned it down. Disney's Touchstone division produced it, and it became a hit.

Ranked #3 of 50 influential people in The new York Observer's "The New Power Gays" article, June 2011.

Ranked #18 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #26 in 2002.

He has produced six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Clueless (1995), The Truman Show (1998), The Hours (2002), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Social Network (2010) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).