Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: "Nightcrawler" dicalonkeun pikeun sababaraha panghargaan, lolobana di antarana pikeun pagelaran Gyllenhaal jeung naskah Gilroy. Dina Academy Awards ka-87, Gilroy dicalonkeun pikeun Academy Award pikeun Best Original Screenplay. Pilem ieu nampi opat nominasi tambahan dina 68th British Academy Film Awards, tilu nominasi dina 20th Critics' Choice Awards, hiji nominasi dina 72nd Golden Globe Awards, sareng hiji nominasi dina
21 Screen Actors Guild Awards, tapi teu meunang hiji-hijina. Sanajan kitu, éta meunang Best Film di 19th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards.