- Attended the Centro Sperimentale school of cinema in Rome during the early 1950s.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980
- He worked as an assistant to Italian film legends Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica before returning to Yugoslavia.
- He was a Montenegrin film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient.
- According to the Croatian Public Broadcasting Company, his films have reached an audience of over 500 million viewers worldwide.
- The top four most viewed Yugoslav films of all time were all directed by Bulajic.
- In November 2020, Bulajic's film Skoplje '63 was included on a list of the Top 10 Croatian documentary films of all time, according to a group of 38 film critics.
- He was a resistance fighter in World War II having joined the Yugoslav Partisans group at the age of 15.
- Bulajic spent the majority of his life working in Croatia and is primarily known for directing World War II-themed movies from the Partisan film genre.
- In a 2011 article the American political-journalism organization Politico referred to Bulajic as "one of the most successful director's of his day".
- In 2010, the Commission of the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival included Battle of Neretva in its list of the 10 most important films ever made about World War II. This put the film in the company of masterpieces such as The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean and Empire of the Sun by Steven Spielberg.
- Throughout his career, Bulajic worked with a number of Hollywood stars including Orson Welles, Hardy Krüger, Sergei Bondarchuk, Franco Nero, Christopher Plummer and Yul Brynner.
- In 2016 he was recognized with a SEE Film Legend Award by the International Committee of the South East European Film Festival.
- In 2008, the Manaki brothers International Film Festival awarded him a Special Award Golden Camera 300 for his contributions to world cinema.
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