EPILOGUE: "On a budget of $3.6 million, Un uomo da marciapiede (1969) grossed $44.8 million. John Schlesinger won the Academy Award® for Best Director over Costa-Gavras, George Roy Hill, Arthur Penn and Sydney Pollack. Waldo Salt won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay. John Schlesinger went on to make films in America and abroad, working again with Dustin Hoffman on the highly successful Il maratoneta (1976). Jon Voight won an Academy Award® for Best Actor in Tornando a casa (1978), written by Waldo Salt. Jennifer Salt retired from acting and became a successful screenwriter like her father. She and Jon Voight bump into each other at the neighborhood Hollywood deli. James Leo Herlihy contracted AIDS in 1992. A year later, at the age of 66, he took his own life. Un uomo da marciapiede (1969)'s X rating was eventually changed to an R without altering any of the films content."
It was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Film at The Oscars (2024), but it was not nominated.