- In 1996 he was the first director of photography inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame, for his cinematography on Star Trek (1966).
- In 1996, he was nominated "Philanthropic Man of the Year" by the Motion Picture and Television Foundation.
- Past vice president and past chairman of the American Society of Cinematographers.
- International Photographers Guild membership #600.
- Son of cinematographer Perry Finnerman.
- Went to the same high school as Jonathan Silverman, Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corbin Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer and Richard Dreyfuss.
- In 1969, while scouting locations, he was seriously injured in a plane crash. The crash killed the pilot and the other passenger, Star Trek (1966) director Robert Sparr.
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