List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan
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| Wins | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 49 | ||||||||||||||||
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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Over his career he has received many accolades throughout his long career as a songwriter and performing artist. Dylan's professional career began in 1961 when he signed with Columbia Records.[1] Fifty-five years later, in 2016, Dylan continued to release new recordings and was the first musician to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2]
Dylan has received 10 competitive Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. He received his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Folk Recording for his debut studio album Bob Dylan (1962). Dylan has won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh (1973) and Time Out of Mind (1997). For his song "Gotta Serve Somebody" in 1980 he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. He won Grammy Awards for his Folk Albums, World Gone Wrong in 1995, Time Out of Mind (1997), Love and Theft (2001), and Modern Times (2006). For the songs "Cold Irons Bound" (1998) and "Someday Baby" (2006) he won twice for Best Rock Vocal Performance.
On film, he wrote the music and composed the score for the Sam Peckinpah directed revisionist western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music. Dylan earned acclaim for writing the song "Things Have Changed" for the Curtis Hanson directed comedy-drama film Wonder Boys (2000) for which he earned the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song as well as a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Throughout his career, Dylan has received various honorary awards including the National Medal of Arts in 2009 and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 both given to him by the 44th president of the United States Barack Obama. He has also been honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, a Pulitzer Prize Citation in 2008, and a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. He was made both an Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 2013. He was inducted in both The Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982 and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.[3] Five of his songs were listed in as being one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.[4]
Major associations
[edit]| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2001 | Best Original Song | "Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys) | Won | [5] |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy Film Awards | ||||
| 1973 | Best Original Music | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Best Original Song | "Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys) | Won | [6] |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Best Folk Recording | Bob Dylan | Nominated | [7] |
| 1965 | Best Folk Recording | The Times They Are a-Changin' | Nominated | |
| 1969 | Best Folk Performance | John Wesley Harding | Nominated | |
| 1970 | Best Country Instrumental Performance | "Nashville Skyline Rag" | Nominated | |
| 1973 | Album of the Year | The Concert for Bangla Desh | Won | |
| 1974 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Nominated | |
| 1980 | Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Gotta Serve Somebody" | Won | |
| 1981 | Best Inspirational Performance | Saved | Nominated | |
| 1982 | Best Inspirational Performance | Shot of Love | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Best Traditional Folk Recording | "Pretty Boy Floyd" | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Album of the Year | Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 | Nominated | |
| Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal | Won | |||
| 1992 | Best Music Video, Short Form | "Series of Dreams" | Nominated | |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Himself | Honored | ||
| 1994 | Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo | "All Along the Watchtower" | Nominated | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal | "My Back Pages" | Nominated | ||
| Best Contemporary Folk Album | Good as I Been to You | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Best Traditional Folk Album | World Gone Wrong | Won | |
| 1996 | Best Male Rock Vocal Performance | "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" | Nominated | |
| Best Rock Song | "Dignity" | Nominated | ||
| Best Contemporary Folk Album | MTV Unplugged | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Album of the Year | Time Out of Mind | Won | |
| Best Contemporary Folk Album | Won | |||
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Cold Irons Bound" | Won | ||
| 1999 | Best Country Song | "To Make You Feel My Love" | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Things Have Changed" | Nominated | |
| Best Song Written for Visual Media | Nominated | |||
| 2002 | Album of the Year | Love and Theft | Nominated | |
| Best Contemporary Folk Album | Won | |||
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Honest with Me" | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals | "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking" | Nominated | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Down in the Flood" | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance | "Someday Baby" | Won | |
| Best Rock Song | Nominated | |||
| Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album | Modern Times | Won | ||
| 2010 | Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance | "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" | Nominated | |
| Best Americana Album | Together Through Life | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Shadows in the Night | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Fallen Angels | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | Triplicate | Nominated | ||
| Grammy Hall of Fame | ||||
| 1994 | Folk (Single) | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Columbia | |
| 1998 | Rock (Single) | "Like a Rolling Stone" | Columbia | |
| 1999 | Rock (Album) | Blonde on Blonde | Columbia | |
| 2002 | Rock (Track) | "Mr. Tambourine Man" | Columbia | |
| 2002 | Rock (Album) | Highway 61 Revisited | Columbia | |
| 2006 | Rock (Album) | Bringing It All Back Home | Columbia | |
| 2015 | Rock (Album) | Blood on the Tracks | Columbia | |
| 2016 | Rock (Album) | The Basement Tapes | Columbia |
Other awards and nominations
[edit]| Organizations | Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GMA Dove Awards | 1980 | Album by a Secular Artist | Slow Train Coming | Won | [8] |
| MVPA Awards | 2013 | Best Rock Video | "Duquesne Whistle" | Nominated | |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 1988 | 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Honored | |
| "The Times They Are a-Changin’" | Honored | ||||
| "Like a Rolling Stone" | Honored | ||||
| "Subterranean Homesick Blues" | Honored | ||||
| "Tangled Up in Blue" | Honored | ||||
| Antville Music Video Awards | 2013 | Best Interactive | "Like a Rolling Stone" | Nominated | |
| UK Music Video Awards | 2014 | Won | |||
| Best Art Direction & Design | Nominated | ||||
| Best Music AD | Nominated | ||||
| Webby Awards | 1999 | Webby Awards | bobdylan.com | Won | |
| 2014 | Websites - Music | "Like a Rolling Stone" | Nominated | ||
| Online Film & Video - Best Editing | Won | ||||
| Online Film & Video - Best Use of Interactive Video | Nominated | ||||
| Online Film & Video - Music | Nominated |
Honorary awards
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Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Unterberger, Richie (October 8, 2003). "Carolyn Hester Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ Sisario, Ben (October 13, 2016). "Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ "Bob Dylan". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ^ "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. 2007. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
- ^ Dansby, Andrew (March 26, 2001). "Dylan wins Oscar". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
- ^ "Things Have Changed: Golden Globes: 1 Nomination, 1 Win". goldenglobes.com. April 1, 2001. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^ "Complete List of NARAS Awards Nominees". Billboard. No. April 20, 1963. The Billboard Publishing Company. 20 April 1963. p. 30. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ^ "Past Winners". Gospel Music Association.
- ^ "The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Silence". New York Times. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016" (PDF). Nobelprize.org. October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
- ^ "Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize". BBC News. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d Greene, Andy (November 18, 2016). "Bob Dylan Before the Nobel: 12 Times He Publicly Accepted an Honor". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ "Remarks by the President at Kennedy Center Honors Reception". Clinton White House. 1997-12-08. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ "Photo: Chuck Berry and 2003 guest of honor Bob Dylan at the Banquet of the Golden Plate Award at Mellon Auditorium". American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ Luckhurst, Tim (24 June 2004). "Dylan takes centre stage at St Andrews for university show". The Independent.
- ^ "Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes 2007". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2008: Special Citation". Pulitzer. 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ^ White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Neustadt Prizes - Neustadt International Prize for Literature".
- ^ "Bob Dylan Named 2015 MusiCares Person Of The Year". Grammy.com. Grammy Foundation. September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ Dylan received the prize on October 13, 2016, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".It is the first time since 1993 that the Nobel committee has offered the award in the category of American literature.[9]
