In 1982, Graczyk won the Best Screenplay Award at the Belgium International Film Festival for Robert Altman's motion picture adaptation.
[3] Graczyk went on to say: Jimmy Dean can only be described as the result of my own observations and frustrations with progress that ignores a past; the lack of personalization and pride and the recurring need of people to build facades to conceal the truths of their lives.
[9] The first version of Jimmy Dean premiered in September 1976 at Players Theatre;[10] in early 1980, it moved to New York City for a brief run[11] before filmmaker Robert Altman acquired the rights.
[12]: 89 Nonetheless, Altman soon managed to make a low-budget film adaptation financed by Viacom Enterprises and Mark Goodson Productions.
[8] By 2003, he was living in Ohio's Miami Valley area and was still writing plays, although in his words, "There are currently several scripts running around in my computer looking for an exit.