In 2007 Fiore was named a "Top 100 Filmmaker" (out of 12,000 submissions) for Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett's FOX filmmaker series "On the Lot".
Joseph Stefano, screenwriter of Alfred Hitchock's "Psycho", remarked that Fiore's "Cadaverous" 'is tense and sub-textually terrifying... a stroke of cinematic genius'.