awards for How the West Was Won on AllMovie

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Nominated	Best Color Art Direction George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry W. Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr., Jack Mills	1963
Nominated	Best Color Cinematography William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles B. Lang, Joseph La Shelle	1963
Nominated	Best Color Costume Design Walter Plunkett	1963
Won	Best Editing Harold Kress	1963
Nominated	Best Original Score Alfred Newman, Ken Darby	1963
Won	Best Original Screenplay James R. Webb	1963
Nominated	Best Picture Bernard Smith	1963
Won	Best Sound Franklin E. Milton	1963

Library of Congress

Won

U.S. National Film Registry

1997

National Board of Review

Nominated

Best Picture

1963