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Wins | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Bob Odenkirk.
Bob Odenkirk is an American actor and comedian. Odenkirk started a career in comedy before transitioning to more dramatic work on stage and screen. Over his career he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Critics' Choice Television Awards as well as nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Producers Guild of America Awards, and a Tony Award.
Odenkirk started his profession career as a writer for various sketch comedy series starting with the NBC series Saturday Night Live (1987–1991) followed by the MTV series The Ben Stiller Show (1992) and the HBO series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), for which he was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series winning twice in 1989 and 1993. He made his directorial film debut with Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003) for which he won several prizes from the Avignon Film Festival, Independent Film Festival Boston, the Phoenix Film Festival, the Sidewalk Film Festival, the Slamdance Film Festival, and the South by Southwest Film Festival.
As an actor, he took a recurring supporting role playing a charismatic but sketchy lawyer Saul Goodman in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2013) for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2013. He reprised his role this time as the lead of the AMC prequel spinoff series Better Call Saul (2015–2022) for which he received widespread acclaim as well as three Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series as well as six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards, five nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, and five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
As an actor on film, he took a supporting role as Ross Grant in the Alexander Payne road dramedy Nebraska (2013) earning a Critics' Choice Movie Awards nomination, and a leading role as Hutch Mansell, a former government assassin in the action film Nobody (2021), which he also served as a producer, earning a Critics' Choice Super Awards nomination. On television, he took a recurring guest role as Uncle Lee Lane in the FX on Hulu dramedy series The Bear (2023–) for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. On stage, made his Broadway debut playing Shelley Levene, a weathered, once-successful real estate salesman in the 2024 revival of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Awards | ||||
2013 | Best Acting Ensemble | Nebraska | Nominated | [1] |
Critics' Choice Super Awards | ||||
2021 | Best Actor in an Action Movie | Nobody | Nominated | [2] |
Critics' Choice Television Awards | ||||
2015 | Best Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season one) | Won | [3] |
2016 | Better Call Saul (season two) | Won | [4] | |
2017 | Better Call Saul (season three) | Nominated | [5] | |
2018 | Better Call Saul (season four) | Nominated | [6] | |
2020 | Better Call Saul (season five) | Nominated | [7] | |
2023 | Better Call Saul (season six) | Won | [8] |
Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
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Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
1989 | Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Saturday Night Live (season 14) | Won | [9] |
1990 | Saturday Night Live (season 15) | Nominated | [10] | |
1991 | Saturday Night Live (season 16) | Nominated | [11] | |
1993 | The Ben Stiller Show | Won | [12] | |
1998 | Mr. Show with Bob and David (season 3) | Nominated | [13] | |
Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Mr. Show with Bob and David ("How High the Mountain") | Nominated | ||
1999 | Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Mr. Show with Bob and David (season 4) | Nominated | [14] |
2015 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 1) | Nominated | [15] |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Pimento") | Nominated | ||
2016 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 2) | Nominated | [16] |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Klick") | Nominated | ||
2017 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 3) | Nominated | [17] |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Expenses") | Nominated | ||
2019 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 4) | Nominated | [18] |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Winner") | Nominated | ||
2020 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 5) | Nominated | [19] |
2022 | Better Call Saul (season 6 part 1) | Nominated | [20] | |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Plan and Execution") | Nominated | ||
2023 | Outstanding Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season 6 part 2) | Nominated | [21] |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (episode: "Saul Gone") | Nominated | ||
2024 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | The Bear (episode: "Fishes") | Nominated | [22] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | Better Call Saul (season one) | Nominated | [23] |
2017 | Better Call Saul (season two) | Nominated | [23] | |
2018 | Better Call Saul (season three) | Nominated | [23] | |
2021 | Better Call Saul (season four) | Nominated | [23] | |
2022 | Better Call Saul (season five) | Nominated | [23] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2011 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Breaking Bad (season four) | Nominated | [24] |
2012 | Breaking Bad (season five part 1) | Nominated | [25] | |
2013 | Breaking Bad (season five part 2) | Won | [26] | |
2015 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season one) | Nominated | [27] |
2017 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season three) | Nominated | [28] |
2018 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season four) | Nominated | [29] |
Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | |||
2020 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season five) | Nominated | [30] |
Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | |||
2022 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Better Call Saul (season six) | Nominated | [31] |
Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2025 | Best Featured Actor in a Play | Glengarry Glen Ross | Nominated | [32] |