List of awards and nominations received by Sam Rockwell

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Wins43

Nominations112

Sam Rockwell awards and nominations

Rockwell at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 2 SAG Awards 3 6 BAFTA Awards 1 2 Emmy Awards 0 3 Golden Globes 1 3 Tony Awards 0 1
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Wins	43
Nominations	112
Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Sam Rockwell.

Sam Rockwell is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Rockwell started his career as a character actor playing diverse supporting roles in a variety of genres before transitioning into leading man roles. He has received several accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and three Actor Awards as well as nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.

He acted in the British fantasy drama Lawn Dogs (1997) winning Best Actor Prizes at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival. He played a violent and erratic prison inmate William "Wild Bill" Wharton in the fantasy prison drama epic The Green Mile (1999) for which he was nominated for the Actor Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. He received acclaim for his portrayal of Chuck Barris in the biographical spy thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) earning the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actor. He played James Reston Jr. in the historical political thriller Frost/Nixon (2008) earning an Actor Award nomination with the Cast. He received various award nominations for his role as man with a personal crisis on the far side of the Moon in the science fiction film Moon (2009).

Rockwell was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award playing a man convicted of a crime in the legal drama Conviction (2010), the Independent Spirit Award playing a struggling actor in the satirical crime dramedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), and the Critics' Choice Award playing a quirky water park worker in the summer comedy The Way, Way Back (2013). He played a troubled police deputy in the Martin McDonagh crime-drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) for which he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the BAFTA Award as well as the Critics' Choice Movie Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Actor Award. The following year he portrayed George W. Bush in the Dick Cheney biopic Vice (2018) earning nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award.

On television, he portrayed the Broadway dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse in the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon (2019) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination. He was also nominated as a producer on the same project earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. For his role in the HBO anthology series The White Lotus (2024) he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his role as a hustler in the David Mamet revival American Buffalo (2022).