- Directed one Oscar nominated performance: John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977).
- Teaches film at Chapman University in Orange, California. (April 2005)
- Brother of Mary Badham.
- 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: Saturday Night Fever (1977).
- Producer Michael Douglas considered him as director of Starman (1984) but the job went to John Carpenter.
- Frequently hires composer Arthur B. Rubinstein to score his films. They have done 9 films together from Who's Life Is it Anyway? made in 1981 to The Last Debate, a TV movie made in 2000.
- Attended Indian Springs School (Alabama).
- Lives in Beverly Hills, California.
- Has a daughter named Kelly MacDonald Badham.
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