'Disgrace' won the Best Narrative Film (The Black Pearl) Award at the Middle East Film Festival 2008.
On an interview with late night host Craig Ferguson the year the film came out, Malkovich and Ferguson had a playful back and forth where Malkovich seemed to say he loathed production of this film. He said he would have rather been on Safari and eaten by animals than to be with the people he was with filming this movie.
The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee.
The film was financed by the Film Finance Corporation Australia, Newbridge Film Capital, Whitest Pouring Films, the New South Wales Film and Television Office and the South Australian Film Corporation.