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 professional 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 work on these shows 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.
Major associations Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Awards 2013 Best Acting Ensemble Nebraska Critics' Choice Super Awards2021 Best Actor in an Action Movie Nobody 2026Nobody 2Critics' Choice Television Awards 2015 Best Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (season one) 2016 Better Call Saul (season two) 2017 Better Call Saul (season three) 2018 Better Call Saul (season four) 2020 Better Call Saul (season five) 2023 Better Call Saul (season six)
Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1989 Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program Saturday Night Live (season 14) 1990 Saturday Night Live (season 15) 1991 Saturday Night Live (season 16) 1993 The Ben Stiller Show 1998 Mr. Show with Bob and David (season 3) Outstanding Music and Lyrics Mr. Show with Bob and David ("How High the Mountain") 1999 Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program Mr. Show with Bob and David (season 4) 2015 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 1) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Pimento") 2016 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 2) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Klick") 2017 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 3) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Expenses") 2019 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 4) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Winner") 2020 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 5) 2022 Better Call Saul (season 6 part 1) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Plan and Execution") 2023 Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul (season 6 part 2) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (episode: "Saul Gone") 2024 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series The Bear (episode: "Fishes")
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2016 Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama Better Call Saul (season one) 2017 Better Call Saul (season two) 2018 Better Call Saul (season three) 2021 Better Call Saul (season four) 2022 Better Call Saul (season five)
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2011 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Breaking Bad (season four) 2012 Breaking Bad (season five part 1) 2013 Breaking Bad (season five part 2) 2015 Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series Better Call Saul (season one) 2017 Better Call Saul (season three) 2018 Better Call Saul (season four) Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2020 Better Call Saul (season five) Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series 2022 Better Call Saul (season six) Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2025 Best Featured Actor in a Play Glengarry Glen Ross
Other awards and nominations Organizations Year Category Work Result Avignon Film Festival 2003 Best Feature Melvin Goes to Dinner Boston Society of Film Critics 2013 Best Ensemble Cast Nebraska CableACE Awards 1997Best Original Song Mr. Show with Bob and David DVDX Awards 2003 Best Director Melvin Goes to Dinner Best Original Song Run Ronnie Run! Best Original SongRun Ronnie Run! Golden Raspberry Awards 2014 Worst Director (Shared) Movie 43 Worst Screenplay (Shared) Worst Screen Combo (Shared) Independent Film Festival Boston 2003 Audience Award Melvin Goes to Dinner Peabody Awards 2023 Best Drama Better Call Saul Phoenix Film Festival 2003 Best Picture Melvin Goes to Dinner Best Ensemble Producers Guild of America 2016 Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama Better Call Saul 2017 2019 2021 2023 Satellite Awards 2014 Best Ensemble – Motion Picture Nebraska 2016 Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama Better Call Saul 2017 2019 2021 2023 Saturn Awards 2021 Best Actor on TelevisionBetter Call Saul 2022 Best Actor in a Network or Cable Television Series Seattle Film Critics Awards 2014 Best Ensemble Cast Nebraska Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2003 Best Feature Film Melvin Goes to Dinner Slamdance Film Festival 2003 Grand Jury Prize Melvin Goes to Dinner South by Southwest Film Festival 2003 Narrative First Film Award Melvin Goes to Dinner TCA Awards 2015 Individual Achievement in Drama Better Call Saul 2016 2022
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