| 1 | * AwardSnub: The film received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations and won seven, but Creator/RobertRedford wasn't nominated for Best Actor. |
| 2 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Oscar-winning score by Music/JohnBarry. Ironically, when he wrote a ''very'' similar-sounding score for ''Film/HighRoadToChina'' two years prior, it was criticised as "uninspired". |
| 3 | * EndingFatigue: The last half-hour has more goodbyes than most TV {{series finale}}s. |
| 4 | * SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: |
| 5 | ** When Karen returns from Denmark [[spoiler: after recovering from syphilis]] and the Kikuyu all come and welcome her back. |
| 6 | ** Denys trusting that Karen knows what she's doing when she goes to the military encampment herself instead of sending someone, and then giving her his compass so she can navigate better. |
| 7 | * HypeBacklash: When it was released, it was celebrated as a great, adventurous romance and a fantastic story, with raving reviews and great box office results to match, showered with awards from all sides. Nowadays, it's seen as one of the blandest Best Picture Academy Award winners ''ever'', to the point where it routinely makes it to the "top 5 most undeserved Best Pictures" lists. |
| 8 | * SignatureScene: Karen and Denys flying over Africa. In fact, you might not even know what movie it is from, yet you are likely to know the scene itself. |
| 9 | * TearJerker: Karen's departure from Africa. |
| 10 | * ValuesDissonance: Hard to imagine now; while not at all dismissive of the natives, the film (following the memoir) is still an elegy to African colonialism through the travails of an unfortunate European baroness and other dignified colonists. |
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