Awards and Nominations
- Academy Awards
Composer Ernest Gold won the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 1960 Oscars.
The film was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Sal Mineo) and for Best Cinematography (Sam Leavitt).
- Golden Globe
Sal Mineo won the Best Supporting Actor Award
- Grammy Award
Ernest Gold won Best Soundtrack Album and Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1961 for the soundtrack and theme to Exodus respectively. It is the only instrumental song ever to receive that award to date. Oddly, the first notes of the great dramatic theme are identical to the opening theme of a somewhat obscure orchestral piece by Quincy Porter, New England Episodes, premièred in 1958 in Washington, DC.
- Cannes Film Festival
The film was screened at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the competition for the Golden Palm.
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