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Wins | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristen Bell is an American actress and producer in film and television. She has received a Children's and Family Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019 and the #SeeHer Award in 2020.
In her career, she received forty-three award nominations and won ten awards. Bell's first award nomination was for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her performance as the title character in the television series Veronica Mars in 2005. [1] She won her first award at the Gold Derby Awards in the 'Drama Lead Actress' category the same year.
In 2016, Bell won a People's Choice Award for House of Lies . From 2016–2020, she starred in the lead role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series The Good Place (2016–2020), [2] winning two more People's Choice Awards and receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role. In 2019, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2024, Bell starred in the series Nobody Wants This and was nominated for a second time at the Golden Globes in addition to her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role following year.
Until 2025, Bell has never been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Awards, which Vanity Fair has described as a "snub". [3] [4] She has, however, been nominated for two Children's and Family Emmy Awards as a producer, [5] winning in 2025.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
2020 | #SeeHer Award | Herself | Won | [6] |
Critics' Choice Television Awards | ||||
2018 | Best Actress in a Comedy Series | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [8] |
2025 | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [9] [10] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
2025 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | |
Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
2019 | Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime | Momsplaining with Kristen Bell | Nominated | [4] |
Children's and Family Emmy Awards | ||||
2024 | Outstanding Preschool Animated Series (as an executive producer) | The Tiny Chef Show | Nominated | [5] [11] |
2025 | Won | [5] [12] | ||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy | The Good Place | Nominated | [13] |
2025 | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [9] [14] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2025 [a] | Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [16] |
Award | Year [b] | Category | Role | Work | Result | Ref(s) |
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2013 | Best Animated Female | Anna | Frozen | Won | [17] |
2020 | Frozen 2 | Nominated | [18] [19] | |||
Gold Derby Awards | 2005 | Drama Lead Actress | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Won | [20] |
Breakthrough Performer of the Year | — | Filmography | Nominated | |||
2006 | Drama Lead Actress | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Won | [21] | |
2018 | Comedy Actress | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [22] | |
Ensemble of the Year | Nominated | |||||
2019 | Comedy Actress of the Decade | Nominated | [23] | |||
Gotham Awards | 2012 | Best Ensemble Performance | Belinda | Safety Not Guaranteed | Nominated | [24] [25] |
Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2019 | Motion picture star | — | Filmography | Inducted | [26] |
MTV Movie Awards | 2009 | Best WTF Moment (shared with Jason Segel) | Sarah Marshall | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Nominated | [7] |
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2019 | Favorite Female Voice from an Animated Movie | Jade Wilson | Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | Nominated | [27] |
2020 | Favorite Female Voice from an Animated Movie | Anna | Frozen 2 | Nominated | [28] | |
People's Choice Awards | 2015 | Favorite Cable TV Actress | Jeannie van der Hooven | House of Lies | Nominated | [29] [30] |
2016 | Favorite Premium Cable TV Actress | Won | [30] [31] | |||
2017 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Kiki Moore & Claire Rawlings | Bad Moms & The Boss | Nominated | [7] [32] [33] | |
Favorite Actress in a New TV Series | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Won | [7] [32] [34] | ||
2018 | Comedy TV Star of 2018 | Nominated | [7] [35] | |||
2019 | Comedy TV Star of 2019 | Won | [7] [36] | |||
2020 | Comedy TV Star of the Year | Nominated | [37] | |||
Satellite Awards | 2005 | Outstanding Actress in a Series, Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] |
Saturn Awards | 2005 | Best Actress on Television | Nominated | [7] | ||
2006 | Won | [7] | ||||
2007 | Nominated | [1] [7] | ||||
2009 | Best Guest Starring Role in a Television Series | Elle Bishop | Heroes | Nominated | [38] [39] | |
Scream Awards | 2011 | Best Cameo (shared with Anna Paquin) | Chloe Patterson | Scream 4 | Nominated | [40] [41] |
Streamy Awards | 2013 | Best Female Performance: Comedy | Mandy | Burning Love | Nominated | [42] [43] |
TCA Awards | 2005 | Individual Achievement in Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] [44] |
2017 | Individual Achievement in Comedy | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [45] | |
Teen Choice Awards | 2008 | Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Sarah Marshall | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Nominated | [7] [46] |
Choice Movie Breakout Female | Nominated | |||||
2009 | Choice TV Actress: Action/Adventure | Elle Bishop | Heroes | Nominated | [39] [47] | |
2010 | Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy | Beth | When in Rome | Nominated | [48] [49] | |
Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Cynthia | Couples Retreat | Nominated | [48] [50] | ||
2014 | Choice Movie Actress: Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] [51] |