State Committee for Cinematography
In July 1965, "War and Peace" was awarded the Grand Prix at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival together with the Hungarian entry "Twenty Hours". Ludmila Savelyeva was presented with an honorary diploma. The readers of "Sovetskii Ekran", the official publication of the State Committee for Cinematography, chose Savelyeva and Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the best actress and actor of 1966, in recognition of their appearance in the picture. In the same year, "War and Peace" also received the Million Pearl Award of the Roei Association of Film Viewers in Japan.