List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan
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Awards won | 43 | |||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 27 |
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been honored with many accolades throughout his career in show business, which has lasted for six decades.
Academy Awards
Year | Category | Work | Ref. |
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2000 | Best Original Song | "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys | [1] |
GMA Dove Awards
Year | Category | Work | Ref. |
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1980 | Album by a Secular Artist | Slow Train Coming | [2] |
Golden Globe Awards
Year | Category | Work | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2001 | Best Original Song | "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys | [3] |
Grammy Awards
Year | Category | Work | Genre | Result |
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1963 | Best Folk Recording | Bob Dylan[4] | Folk | Nominated |
1964 | Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (Other than Comedy) | We Shall Overcome | Spoken Word | Nominated |
1965 | Best Folk Recording | The Times They Are A-Changin | Folk | Nominated |
1969 | Best Folk Performance | John Wesley Harding | Folk | Nominated |
1970 | Best Country Instrumental Performance | "Nashville Skyline Rag" | Country | Nominated |
1973 | Album of the Year | The Concert for Bangladesh | General | Won |
1980 | Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Gotta Serve Somebody" | Rock | Won |
1981 | Best Inspirational Performance | "Saved" | Gospel | Nominated |
1982 | Best Inspirational Performance | "Shot of Love" | Gospel | Nominated |
1987 | Best Historical Album | Biograph | Historical | Nominated |
1989 | Best Traditional Folk Recording | Pretty Boy Floyd | Folk | Nominated |
1990 | Album of the Year | Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 | General | Nominated |
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal | Rock | Won | ||
1992 | Best Music Video, Short Form | "Series Of Dreams" | Music Video | Nominated |
* | Lifetime Achievement Award | N/A | Special | Won |
1994 | Best Male Rock Vocal Performance | "All Along The Watchtower" | Rock | Nominated |
Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | "My Back Pages" | Rock | Nominated | |
Best Contemporary Folk Album | Good As I Been to You | Folk | Nominated | |
1995 | Best Traditional Folk Album | World Gone Wrong | Folk | Won |
1996 | Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male | "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" | Rock | Nominated |
Best Rock Song | "Dignity" | Rock | Nominated | |
Best Contemporary Folk Album | MTV Unplugged | Folk | Nominated | |
1998 | Album of the Year | Time Out of Mind | General | Won |
Best Contemporary Folk Album | Folk | Won | ||
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Cold Irons Bound" | Rock | Won | |
1999 | Best Country Song | "To Make You Feel My Love" | Country | Nominated |
2001 | Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Things Have Changed" | Rock | Nominated |
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Music for Visual Media | Nominated | ||
2002 | Album of the Year | Love And Theft | General | Nominated |
Best Contemporary Folk Album | Folk | Won | ||
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Honest With Me" | Rock | Nominated | |
2004 | Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals | "Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking" | Pop | Nominated |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | "Down In The Flood" | Rock | Nominated | |
2007 | Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance | "Someday Baby" | Rock | Won |
Best Rock Song | Rock | Nominated | ||
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album | Modern Times | Folk | Won | |
2010 | Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance | "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" | Rock | Nominated |
Best Americana Album | Together Through Life | American Roots | Nominated | |
2016 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Shadows in the Night | Pop | Won |
Best Historical Album | The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete | Historical | Won |
Grammy Hall of Fame
Recordings of Bob Dylan were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Year | Title | Genre | Label | Year inducted |
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1963 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Folk (Single) | Columbia | 1994 |
1965 | "Like a Rolling Stone" | Rock (Single) | Columbia | 1998 |
1966 | Blonde on Blonde | Rock (Album) | Columbia | 1999 |
1965 | "Mr. Tambourine Man" | Rock (Track) | Columbia | 2002 |
1965 | Highway 61 Revisited | Rock (Album) | Columbia | 2002 |
1965 | Bringing It All Back Home | Rock (Album) | Columbia | 2006 |
1975 | Blood on the Tracks | Rock (Album) | Columbia | 2015 |
1975 | The Basement Tapes | Rock (Album) | Columbia | 2016 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Bob Dylan as Performer in 1988[5] and listed five songs by Bob Dylan of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.[6]
- 1963: "Blowin' in the Wind"
- 1963: "The Times They Are a-Changin’"
- 1965: "Like a Rolling Stone"
- 1965: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
- 1975: "Tangled Up in Blue"
Nobel Prize
Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature on October 13, 2016, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".[7][8] It is the first time since 1993 that the Nobel committee has offered the award in the category of American literature.[9]
Other honors
Year | Title | Result |
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1963 | Tom Paine Award | Honors |
1970 | Princeton University, New Jersey | Honorary Doctorate of Music |
1982 | Songwriters Hall of Fame | Inducted |
1990 | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | Honors |
1997 | Kennedy Center Honors[10] | Honors |
1997 | The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize | Recipient |
2000 | Polar Music Prize | Winner |
2002 | Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame | Inducted |
2004 | St. Andrews University, Scotland[11] | Honorary Doctorate of Music |
2007 | Prince of Asturias Awards[12] | Winner |
2008 | Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards[13] | Winner |
2009 | National Medal of Arts[14] | Honors |
2012 | Presidential Medal of Freedom | Recipient |
2013 | Officier de la Legion d'honneur | Recipient |
Footnotes
- ↑ "73rd Annual Academy Awards". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Past Winners". Gospel Music Association.
- ↑ "HFPA - Award Search". Golden Globe, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 2004-10-06. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ↑ "Complete List of NARAS Awards Nominees". Billboard. No. April 20, 1963. The Billboard Publishing Company. p. 30. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Silence". New York Times. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ↑ "Remarks by the President at Kennedy Center Honors Reception". Clinton White House. 1997-12-08. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ↑ 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