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| Wins | 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Paul McCartney.
Contents
- Major associations
- Academy Awards
- BAFTA Awards
- Critics' Choice Awards
- Emmy Awards
- Golden Globe Awards
- Grammy Awards
- Miscellaneous awards
- Honorary awards
- State and Commonwealth honors
- References
Sir Paul McCartney is an English songwriter, musician and composer. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, 19 Grammy Awards, and a Emmy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 and was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2017. [1] He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, and honored with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010, and Rolling Stone listed him as one of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
As a member of The Beatles, his songwriting partnership with John Lennon produced "some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". [2] In 1965, they won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group for A Hard Day's Night . They won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "Michelle" in 1967 and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for their eight studio album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1968. They won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Let It Be in 1971.
As a member of Wings, he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Band on the Run" in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Rockestra Theme" in 1980. As a solo artist, he won Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Kisses on the Bottom in 2013, and the Best Rock Song for "Cut Me Some Slack" in 2014.
For film, as part of the Beatles, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Let It Be from the 1970 film of the same name. He was further Oscar-nominated for Live and Let Die from the 1973 film of the same name and Vanilla Sky from the 2001 film of the same name. He received three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "No More Lonely Nights" from Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), "Vanilla Sky" from the 2001 film of the same name, and "(I Want to) Come Home" from Everybody's Fine (2009).
On television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for Disney+ documentary miniseries The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He was previously Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program for Paul McCartney's Standing Stone (1989) and Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special for the concert special Paul McCartney in Red Square (2005).
In addition to his 19 Grammy wins, McCartney received the academy's MusiCares Person of the Year award in 2012. McCartney was honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award twice. The first in 1990 for his solo work and then with The Beatles in 2014. The Beatles were also, honoured with a Grammy Trustees Award in 1972. [3] [4] [5] McCartney has also received eight BRIT Awards, two American Music Awards, one Classical Brit Awards, one Critics' Choice Movie Award, one MTV Video Music Award, and one MTV Europe Music Award.
