The production won Emmy awards in 1964 for Program of the Year and Outstanding Documentary.

Most Outstanding Documentary - Thanks for Listening (The History Channel)

The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.

Miss Representation won Outstanding Documentary at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards.

It went on to win a GLAAD award for Outstanding Documentary.

Atlantic Film Festival - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary (2004)

Outstanding Documentary.

Emmy for Outstanding Documentary (2005)

Outstanding Documentary (long format division)

(2006) - Answer to Australia's largest murder mystery and winner of Most Outstanding Documentary in the 2007 Logies.