Claire Danes won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Actress for her work in this episode. Other nominees for "Q&A" were director Lesli Linka Glatter and both Damian Lewis and Rupert Friend.
Henry Bromell won a posthumous Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Bromell was an executive producer on the show who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2013, aged 65.
Numerous publications cited this episode as one of the best episodes of television of 2012.