List of awards and nominations received by Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains awards and nominations
	Alice in Chains in concert in 2016
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
American Music Awards	0
Billboard Music Awards	0
Grammy Awards	0
MTV Video Music Awards	1
MTV Movie Awards	0
Juno Awards	0
Concrete Foundations Awards	1
SPIN's Readers' Poll Awards	1
Revolver Golden Gods Awards	2
Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards	1
Kerrang! Awards	2
Loudwire Music Awards	0
Northwest Area Music Awards	2
Metal Storm Awards	2
Fryderyk Awards	1
Totals
Wins	13
Nominations	50
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

Last updated November 01, 2023

This is a list of awards and nominations earned by American rock band Alice in Chains.

As of 2019, Alice in Chains has received eleven Grammy nominations.^[1] Their first nomination was for the song "Man in the Box", nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1992.^[1] The album Dirt was nominated in the same category in 1993.^[1] Six more songs were nominated between 1995 and 2011.^[1] The album Jar of Flies was nominated for Best Recording Package in 1995.^[2] The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here was nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non Classical in 2014,^[3] and the album Rainier Fog was nominated for Best Rock Album in 2019.^[4]

The music video for the song "Would?", Alice in Chains' contribution to the 1992 film Singles , won the award for Best Video from a Film at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2009 they won the Kerrang! Icon award,^[5] and in 2010 they won two Revolver Golden Gods awards for Black Gives Way to Blue .^[6]

American Music Awards

The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1992	Alice in Chains	Favorite New Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist	Nominated^[7]

Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by Billboard magazine.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1994	"No Excuses"	Top Rock Song	Nominated^[8]

Concrete Foundations Awards

The Concrete Foundations Awards was an awards ceremony held by the Foundations Forum to recognize the significant contributions made by key artists to the heavy metal genre and the music industry as a whole.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1991	Facelift	Best Debut Album	Won^[9]

Fryderyk Awards

The Fryderyk Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2010	Black Gives Way to Blue	Best Foreign Album	Won^[10]

GAFFA Awards

Denmark GAFFA Awards

The GAFFA Awards is an annual awards ceremony established in 1991 by the Danish magazine of the same name.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1993	Alice in Chains	Best Band	Nominated^[11]
1993	Alice in Chains	Best Concert	Nominated^[11]

Sweden GAFFA Awards

The GAFFA Awards (Swedish: GAFFA Priset) are awarded by the Swedish magazine of the same name since 2010.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2019	Alice in Chains	Best Foreign Band	Nominated^[12]

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1992	"Man in the Box"	Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal	Nominated^[1]
1993	Dirt	Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal	Nominated^[1]
1995	Jar of Flies	Best Recording Package	Nominated^[2]
1995	"I Stay Away"	Best Hard Rock Performance	Nominated^[1]
1996	"Grind"		Nominated^[1]
1997	"Again"		Nominated^[1]
2000	"Get Born Again"		Nominated^[1]
2010	"Check My Brain"		Nominated^[1]
2011	"A Looking in View"		Nominated^[1]
2014	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	Best Engineered Album, Non Classical	Nominated^[3]
2019	Rainier Fog	Best Rock Album	Nominated^[1]

Juno Awards

The Juno Awards are presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2014	Randy Staub (for "Hollow")	Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year	Nominated^[13]

Kerrang! Awards

The Kerrang! Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by Kerrang! , a British rock magazine.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1996	Alice in Chains	Classic Songwriter Award	Won^[14]
2009	Alice in Chains	Icon Award	Won^[5]

Loudwire Music Awards

The Loudwire Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by Loudwire, an American music website.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2014	Alice in Chains	Rock Band of the Year	Nominated^[15]
	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	Rock Album of the Year	Nominated^[15]
	Jerry Cantrell	Guitarist of the Year	Nominated^[15]
	"Hollow"	Rock Song of the Year	Nominated^[15]
	"Hollow"	Rock Video of the Year	Nominated^[15]

Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards

The Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by Metal Hammer , a British heavy metal magazine.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2013	Alice in Chains	Icon Award	Won^[16]^[17]

Metal Storm Awards

The Metal Storm Awards is an annual awards held by Metal Storm , an Estonian heavy metal magazine.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2009	Black Gives Way to Blue	Best Alternative Metal Album	Nominated^[18]
2009	Black Gives Way to Blue	Biggest Surprise	Nominated^[18]
2013	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	Best Alternative Metal Album	Nominated^[19]
2018	Rainier Fog	Best Alternative Metal Album	Won^[20]

MoPOP Founders Award

The MoPOP Founders Award is an annual awards ceremony held by the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2020	Alice in Chains	Founders Award	Won^[21]

MTV Movie Awards

The MTV Movie Awards is an annual awards ceremony established in 1992 by MTV.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1993	"Would?" from Singles	Best Song from a Movie	Nominated^[22]

MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony established in 1984 by MTV.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1991	"Man in the Box"	Best Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Video	Nominated^[23]
1993	"Would?" from Singles	Best Video from a Film	Won^[24]
1996	"Again"	Best Hard Rock Video	Nominated^[25]

Northwest Area Music Awards

The Northwest Area Music Awards (NAMA) was an awards ceremony held by the Northwest Area Music Association. Alice in Chains received nine nominations in 1991 and won one award. The other eight nominations are unknown.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1991	Facelift	Best Recording	Won^[26]
1992	Alice in Chains	Best Rock Group	Won^[27]

Revolver Golden Gods Awards

The Revolver Golden Gods Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by Revolver , an American hard-rock and heavy metal magazine.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2010	Black Gives Way to Blue	Album of the Year	Won^[6]
2010	Alice in Chains	Comeback of the Year	Won^[6]
2014	"Hollow"	Song of the Year	Nominated^[28]
2014	Jerry Cantrell	Dimebag Darrell Best Guitarist(s) Award	Nominated^[28]

SPIN's Readers' Poll Awards

The SPIN's Readers' Poll is an awards held annually by American music magazine SPIN.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1993	Dirt	Best Album	Won^[29]

References

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↑ "Juno Awards 2014: Arcade Fire, Tegan And Sara, Serena Ryder Take Home Early Awards At Gala Dinner". Huffington Post. March 30, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
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[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[grammy_noms-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Alice In Chains - Artist". Grammy.com. Retrieved December 8, 2018.

[jar_of_flies-3] 1 2 "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times . January 6, 1995. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[grammy_2014-4] 1 2 "Grammys 2014: The complete list of nominees and winners". Los Angeles Times. January 26, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2017.

[5] "Alice in Chains, Greta Van Fleet, Ghost Among Grammy Nominees". Guitar World. December 7, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2018.

[Kerrang!_award_2009-6] 1 2 "The 2009 Kerrang! Awards winners". Kerrang! . Bauer Media Group. August 3, 2009. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-31.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[Revolver_Golden_Gods_2010-7] 1 2 3 "Revolver Golden Gods Awards 2010: The Winners". Metal Injection. April 9, 2010. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[8] "19th American Music Awards". Rockonthenet.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-08.

[9] "1994 Billboard Music Award". Awards & Winners. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[10] "Rocky Foundations" (PDF). Metal Forces Magazine. December 1991. Retrieved 14 August 2017.

[11] "Nominees and Winners :: Fryderyk music award :: 2010". Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.

[gaffa-12] 1 2 "GAFFA-prisen 1991-2006 – se vinderne". GAFFA (in Danish). Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2019.

[13] "GAFFA-priset 2019 – här är artisterna som ligger bäst till". GAFFA (in Swedish). Sweden. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved September 3, 2019.

[14] "Juno Awards 2014: Arcade Fire, Tegan And Sara, Serena Ryder Take Home Early Awards At Gala Dinner". Huffington Post. March 30, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[15] "Alice In Chains wins Classic Songwriter Award at the 3rd Annual Kerrang! Awards (July 8, 1996)". Imgur. Retrieved April 10, 2019.

[Loudwire-16] 1 2 3 4 5 "3rd Annual Loudwire Music Awards: Winners List". Loudwire . February 11, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[17] "Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Alice in Chains + More Win 2013 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards". Loudwire. June 18, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2018.

[18] "Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 17.06.2013 - Alice in Chains (Feat Jason Newsted)". YouTube. June 18, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20. Retrieved February 6, 2018.

[MSA2009-19] 1 2 "Metal Storm Awards 2009". Metal Storm. Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[20] "Metal Storm Awards 2013". Metal Storm. Retrieved June 20, 2013.

[21] "Metal Storm Awards 2018 - Metal Storm". Metalstorm.net. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[22] "Watch Now: MoPOP Founders Award 2020 Honoring Alice In Chains". MoPOP.org. December 1, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2021.

[23] Deborah Russell (May 8, 1993). "Gill Vid Floors Viewers; BET Has The I.D. On MY". Billboard. p. 36.

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[MTV_AWARD-25] "1993 MTV Video Music Awards". Rockonthenet.com. Archived from the original on December 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-08.

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v t e Alice in Chains
Jerry Cantrell Sean Kinney Mike Inez William DuVall Layne Staley Mike Starr
Studio albums	Facelift Dirt Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Rainier Fog
Extended plays	We Die Young Sap Jar of Flies
Live albums	Unplugged Live Live Facelift
Compilations	Nothing Safe: Best of the Box Music Bank Greatest Hits The Essential Alice in Chains
Video albums	Live Facelift The Nona Tapes Music Bank: The Videos
Singles	"We Die Young" "Man in the Box" "Bleed the Freak" "Sea of Sorrow" "Got Me Wrong" "Would?" "Them Bones" "Angry Chair" "Rooster" "What the Hell Have I" "Down in a Hole" "No Excuses" "I Stay Away" "Don't Follow" "Grind" "Heaven Beside You" "Again" "Get Born Again" "Fear the Voices" "Over Now" "A Looking in View" "Check My Brain" "Your Decision" "Lesson Learned" "Hollow" "Stone" "Voices" "Tears" "The One You Know" "So Far Under" "Never Fade" "Rainier Fog"
Other songs	"Sunshine" "Brother" "Hate to Feel" "Nutshell" "Died" "Black Gives Way to Blue" "Phantom Limb"
Film	Black Antenna AIC 23
Related	Discography List of songs List of awards and nominations Susan Silver Blackdiamondskye Sleze Alice N' Chains Spys4Darwin
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