In 1998, Christopher won the Lone Star Film & Television Award at the Lone Star Film & Television Awards in the category of Best Director for his direction of the 1996 film Waiting for Guffman.
In 2001, Christopher (along with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) won the Video Premiere Award at the DVD Exclusive Awards in the category of Best DVD Audio Commentary for the commentary featured on the Special Edition DVD on the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.
Jamie Lee Curtis saw a publicity photograph of Christopher and his co-stars of the film This Is Spinal Tap as seen in Rolling Stone Magazine. When Jamie Lee gave her phone number to Christopher's agent they had their first date and eventually married.
Christopher: But I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
Christopher: People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.