She was twice awarded the title of "Best Foreign Reporter" in Britain for covering wars in Yugoslavia, Iran, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. She won the Brave Journalist Award from the International Women's Media Foundation and the Journalist of the Year Award from the Foreign Journalists Association for her coverage of the Kosovo war.

In 2002, she won the title of "Britain's most beautiful woman of the year".

In 2000, mary Calvin won the Courage Award. The jury once described her as follows: "In the past 65,438+05 years, mary Calvin fought in the forefront of every conflict in the world and bravely brought frontline reports to people."