awards for In the Heat of the Night on AllMovie

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Won	Best Actor Rod Steiger	1967
Won	Best Adapted Screenplay Stirling Silliphant	1967
Nominated	Best Director Norman Jewison	1967
Won	Best Editing Hal Ashby	1967
Won	Best Picture Walter Mirisch	1967
Nominated	Best Sound Effects James A. Richard	1967

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Nominated	Best Film - Any Source Norman Jewison	1967
Won	Best Foreign Actor Rod Steiger	1967
Won	United Nations Award Norman Jewison	1967

Directors Guild of America

Nominated

Best Director Norman Jewison

1967

Edgar Allan Poe Awards

Won

Best Screenplay Stirling Silliphant

1967

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Nominated	Best Director Norman Jewison	1967
Won	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier	1967
Nominated	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Quentin Dean, Lee Grant	1967
Won	Best Picture - Drama	1967
Won	Best Screenplay Stirling Silliphant	1967

New York Film Critics Circle

Won	Best Actor Rod Steiger	1967
Won	Best Picture	1967