Imre Makovecz received nearly a hundred awards and prizes. Below is a selected list of only the most significant ones:
Prizes
| Ybl Prize | 1969 |
| Kossuth Prize | 1990 |
| Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Commander's Cross with Star (for the Hungarian Pavilion at the Seville Expo) | 1992 |
| Academie d'Architecture, Grand Medaille d'or (gold medal from the French Academy) | 1997 |
| Royal Institute of British Architects, Honorary Fellow | 1998 |
| Hungarian Corvin Chain | 2001 |
| Prima Primissima Prize | 2003 |
| Shield of Árpád | 2009 |
| Honorary Doctor of the Sapientia University, Rome, Italy | 2010 |
| Saint Stephen Prize | 2011 |