He won National Film Awards for Best Actor in 1982 for Arohan and in 1984 for Ardh Satya. He also won a Best Actor Award for Ardh Satya in 1984 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 1990 he was awarded India’s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri Award. In 1998 he won the Brussells International Film Festival Best Actor Award for My Son the Fanatic and the Grand Prix Special des Ameriques Montreal World Film Festival Award for exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art. He was awarded an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 and won a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Om married Nandita Puri in 1993 and has one child.