Mentioned on The Rosie O' Donnell show that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups was one of his favorite things about the United States, after which he was so bombarded by the candy sent to him from fans that he had to stop eating them for a while.

For The Anniversary Party (2001), he received the National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking Award and was nominated for The Indie Spirit Award for Best First Feature and Screenplay.

Named one of the 100 most creative people in the world in Entertainment Weekly in 1998.

Was nominated for an Lawrence Olivier award as Best Actor in a Musical category for "Cabaret" in 1994.

He was nominated for the Richard Burton Award at the Shakespeare Globe Awards for his role as Hamlet in 1993.

Came at number 18 in one of the 50 most eligible bachelors of Scotland in 2000.

Was inducted into the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame for his work in "Cabaret".

Was nominated for an Olivier award in the category of Comedy Perfomance of the Year for "La Bete" in 1993.

Was nominated for an Lawrence Olivier award as the Best Film Actor and was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA award as Best Film Actor for his role in Prague (1992) in 1992.

Won Best Actor at the Martini Rossi/TMA awards for "Hamlet" in 1994.

Won a Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy Performance of the Year for "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" in 1991.

Hosted "Saturday Night Live" (1975) in February 2000 when the expected host, Jon Stewart, had to back out at the last minute.

Published his first novel called "Tommy's Tale". [2002 in USA and 2003 in Europe]

Was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award as Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in the production of "The Conquest of the South Pole" in 1988.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1991 (1990 season) for Best Comedy Performance for Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

For Halloween 2002 in Vancouver, Cumming and his "X2" costar, Ian McKellen, dressed as their characters Fegan Floop (from "Spy Kids") and Gandalf (from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) respectively. "He carved me this great Nightcrawler pumpkin and helped answer the door so there were Gandalf and Floop handing out candies," says Cumming.

Has his own cologne called "Cumming."

In 2001 Alan was honored with the NY Immigrant Achievement Award.

Dated Circle of Friends (1995) co-star Saffron Burrows after divorcing his wife Hilary Lyon.

Won the Tony Drama desk award for his performance of the Emcee in "Cabaret" along with New York Free Press, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World and New York Public Advocate's awards.

Graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a B.A. and also won the Gordon Bottomley Award for direction, and an award for the speaking of Scots verse in 1985.

On Sunday 7 January 2007, he registered his civil partnership with Grant Shaffer at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.

Won Broadway's 1998 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for a revival of "Cabaret."

Was nominated for a GQ magazine Man of the Year award in 2001.

He was also honored by the Drama League for "Design For Living".