Lawrence Bender's films have been honored with nineteen Academy Award nominations, including two for Best Picture. His most recent nominations came for the 1998 film "Good Will Hunting," which received a total of nine nominations, and won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. The film also received four Golden Globe nominations, winning the award for Best Screenplay. Bender was nominated for a Producers Guild Award and a Golden Satellite Award for the same film, and was honored with a Vision Award that year. He had previously been Oscar-nominated for Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," for which he was again nominated for a Producers Guild Award. In addition to its seven Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Screenplay, "Pulp Fiction" also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Film, and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

"Pulp Fiction" marked Bender's second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino, with whom he has had a long association. The two first teamed on the 1992 film "Reservoir Dogs," which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The film also won Italy's Raymond Chandler Award and was voted Best Picture by the Australian Film Critics. Bender also produced "Four Rooms," an anthology of four separate stories, individually written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alex Rockwell and Allison Anders; and executive produced "From Dusk Til Dawn," written by Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez. In 1998, Bender produced Tarantino's "Jackie Brown," for which Robert Forster earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Bender holds the distinction of being the only producer to have two films in simultaneous competition at the Berlin Film Festival: "Good Will Hunting" and "Jackie Brown." He is currently in production on their next collaboration, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" which stars Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu and Daryl Hannah,