- Maddin's father Chas was blinded in one eye when his mother held him close to her as an infant and an open brooch pierced his eyelid. A similar event occurs in Maddin's third feature film, Careful.
- Maddin's films often feature autobiographical elements, especially his "Me Trilogy" (of Cowards Bend the Knee, Brand Upon the Brain!, and My Winnipeg) of three films that feature a protagonist named "Guy Maddin".
- Maddin's films since 2003 have often begun as or developed from installation art projects (particularly Cowards Bend the Knee and Brand Upon the Brain!), and in 2012 Maddin began shooting a series of 100 short films, with each production being at the same time a gallery performance.
- Maddin is the subject of four books, two interview books (Guy Maddin: Interviews, edited by D.K. Holm, and Caelum Vatnsdal's Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin) and two academic studies (Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg by Darren Wershler, and Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard).
- In 2012, was among 70 new appointees to receive the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian honours.
- Winner of the Telluride lifetime achievement award (1995)
- Father of Jilian Maddin.
- The youngest of four children. He has a sister named Janet and two brothers named Cameron (deceased) and Ross.
- Retrospective at the 9th New Horizons Film Festival (2009).
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