Director of photography Michael Bonvillain was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for this episode.[14] IGN ranked "Man of Science, Man of Faith" the 18th best episode of Lost,[15] while a similar list by Los Angeles Times ranked the episode 11th, saying it had the best Jack flashback and demonstrated "a show confident in itself and at the height of its powers".[16]