List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan awards and nominations

Dylan with President Barack Obama in 2012
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 1 BAFTA Awards 0 1 Golden Globes 1 1 Grammy Awards 10 38
Totals [a]
Wins	15
Nominations	49
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge 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.

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

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Song	"Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys )	Won	[5]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1973	Best Original Music	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Song	"Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys)	Won	[6]

Grammy Awards

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

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

Dylan receiving the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award from Chuck Berry in 2003.

Organization	Year	Honor	Result	Ref.
Nobel Prize Foundation	2016	Nobel Prize in Literature [a]	Honored	[10] [11]
Tom Paine Foundation	1963	Thomas Paine Award	Honored	[12]
Princeton University	1970	Honorary Doctorate of Music	Honored	[12]
Songwriters Hall of Fame	1982	Inductee	Honored
French Minister of Culture	1990	Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres	Honored
The Recording Academy	1992	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	1997	Kennedy Center Honors	Honored	[13]
Gish Foundtation	1997	The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize	Honored
Royal Swedish Academy of Music	2000	Polar Music Prize	Honored
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame	2002	Inductee	Honored
American Academy of Achievement	2003	Golden Plate Award	Honored	[14] [15]
St. Andrews University	2004	Honorary Doctorate of Music	Honored	[16]
Prince of Asturias Awards	2007	Prize	Honored	[17]
Pulitzer Prize	2008	Special Citation	Honored	[18]
President Barack Obama	2009	National Medal of Arts	Honored	[19]
President Barack Obama	2012	Presidential Medal of Freedom	Honored	[12]
Neustadt International Prize	2012	For Literature	finalist	[20]
President of France	2013	Officier de la Legion d'honneur	Honored	[12]
MusiCares Foundation	2015	MusiCares Person of the Year	Honored	[21]

Footnotes

1. Unterberger, Richie (October 8, 2003). "Carolyn Hester Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
2. Sisario, Ben (October 13, 2016). "Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
3. "Bob Dylan". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
4. "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.
5. Dansby, Andrew (March 26, 2001). "Dylan wins Oscar". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
6. "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.
7. "Complete List of NARAS Awards Nominees". Billboard . No. April 20, 1963. The Billboard Publishing Company. 20 April 1963. p. 30. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
8. "Past Winners". Gospel Music Association.
9. "The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Silence". New York Times. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
10. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016" (PDF). Nobelprize.org. October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
11. "Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize". BBC News. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
12. Greene, Andy (November 18, 2016). "Bob Dylan Before the Nobel: 12 Times He Publicly Accepted an Honor". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
13. "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.
14. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
15. "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.
16. Luckhurst, Tim (24 June 2004). "Dylan takes centre stage at St Andrews for university show". The Independent.
17. "Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes 2007". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
18. "The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2008: Special Citation". Pulitzer. 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
19. White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
20. "Neustadt Prizes - Neustadt International Prize for Literature".
21. "Bob Dylan Named 2015 MusiCares Person Of The Year". Grammy.com. Grammy Foundation. September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

1. 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]