Editing The Third Man (section)

==Awards and honours==
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[23rd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] 
| [[Carol Reed]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black and White]]
| [[Robert Krasker]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]] 
| [[Oswald Hafenrichter]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[3rd British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]] 
| rowspan="4"| Carol Reed
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Best British Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1949 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]
| [[Palme d'Or]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[2nd Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Awards 1950|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Five International Films|Top Ten Foreign Films]]
| {{draw|3rd Place}}
|}

Besides its top ranking in the [[BFI Top 100 British films]] list, in 2004 the magazine ''[[Total Film]]'' ranked it the fourth-greatest British film of all time. In 2005, viewers of BBC Television's ''[[Newsnight Review]]'' voted the film their fourth favourite of all time, the only film in the top five made before 1970.

The film also placed 57th on the [[American Film Institute]]'s list of [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|top American films]] in 1998, though the film's only American connections were Selznick, Welles, and Cotten. In June 2008, the AFI's ''[[AFI's 10 Top 10|10 Top 10]]'' series of lists ranked it as the fifth-best American mystery film.<ref>{{cite news|publisher = [[American Film Institute]]|title = AFI's 10 Top 10|date =17 June 2008|url = http://www.afi.com/10top10/mystery.html|access-date=18 June 2008}}</ref> The film also placed 75th on AFI's list of [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills|100 Years...100 Thrills]], and Harry Lime was listed as the 37th-greatest villain in [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains|100 Heroes and Villains]].{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}