Randy Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Grammy Awards (including the Governor's Award from The Recording Academy [1] ) as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award, three Critics' Choice Awards and seven Golden Globe Awards.
He has been nominated for 22 Academy Awards, winning twice for Best Original Song in 2002 for "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc. ) and in 2011 for "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ). Newman has received twenty-two Academy Award nominations in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories and has won twice in the latter category, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. [2] In 2007, he was inducted as a Disney Legend. [3] In 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Newman was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. [4] Newman received a Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award and performed at the music gala Hollywood in Vienna for the first time together with his cousin David Newman in 2014.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1981 | Best Original Score | Ragtime | Nominated | [5] |
Best Original Song | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime) | Nominated | ||
1984 | Best Original Score | The Natural | Nominated | [6] |
1989 | Best Original Song | "I Love to See You Smile" (from Parenthood ) | Nominated | [7] |
1990 | Best Original Score | Avalon | Nominated | [8] |
1994 | Best Original Song | "Make Up Your Mind" (from The Paper ) | Nominated | [9] |
1995 | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | Toy Story | Nominated | [10] |
Best Original Song | "You've Got a Friend in Me" (from Toy Story) | Nominated | ||
1996 | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | James and the Giant Peach | Nominated | [11] |
1998 | Best Original Dramatic Score | Pleasantville | Nominated | [12] |
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | A Bug's Life | Nominated | ||
Best Original Song | "That'll Do" (from Babe: Pig in the City ) | Nominated | ||
1999 | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2 ) | Nominated | [13] | |
2000 | "A Fool in Love" (from Meet the Parents ) | Nominated | [14] | |
2001 | Best Original Score | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | [15] |
Best Original Song | "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.) | Won | ||
2006 | "Our Town" (from Cars ) | Nominated | [16] | |
2009 | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | [17] | |
"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | |||
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ) | Won | [18] | |
2019 | "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" (from Toy Story 4 ) | Nominated | [19] | |
Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1982 | Best Original Song | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime ) | Nominated | [20] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
2009 | Best Score | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [21] |
Best Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | ||
2010 | Best Song | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ) | Nominated | [22] |
2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [23] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1991 | Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | "He's Guilty!" (from Cop Rock ) | Won | [24] |
2004 | Outstanding Main Title Theme Music | "It's a Jungle Out There" (from Monk ) | Won | [25] |
2010 | Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | "When I'm Gone" (from Monk) | Won | [26] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1981 | Best Original Song | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime ) | Nominated | [27] |
1989 | "I Love to See You Smile" (from Parenthood ) | Nominated | [27] | |
1990 | Best Original Score | Avalon | Nominated | [27] |
1995 | Best Original Song | "You've Got a Friend in Me" (from Toy Story ) | Nominated | [27] |
1998 | Best Original Score | A Bug's Life | Nominated | [27] |
1999 | Best Original Song | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2 ) | Nominated | [27] |
2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [27] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1969 | Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) | "Is That All There Is?" (by Peggy Lee) | Nominated | [28] |
1982 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Ragtime | Nominated | [29] |
1984 | Best Instrumental Composition | The Natural | Won [a] | [30] |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | "The Natural" (from The Natural) | Nominated | ||
1989 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | "I Love to See You Smile" (from Parenthood ) | Nominated | [31] |
1991 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Avalon | Nominated | [32] |
Awakenings | Nominated | |||
1996 | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | "Long Tall Texan" (with Lyle Lovett) | Nominated | [33] |
1999 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | A Bug's Life | Won | [34] |
Best Song Written for Visual Media | "The Time of Your Life" (from A Bug's Life) | Nominated | ||
2000 | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Visual Media | Toy Story 2 | Nominated | [35] |
Best Song Written for Visual Media | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2) | Won | ||
2002 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | [36] |
Best Song Written for Other Visual Media | "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.) | Won | ||
Best Instrumental Composition | "The Ride of the Doors" (from Monsters, Inc.) | Nominated | ||
2003 | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | "Seabiscuit" (from Seabiscuit ) | Nominated | [37] |
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Seabiscuit | Nominated | ||
2006 | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Cars | Nominated | [38] |
Best Song Written for Visual Media | "Our Town" (from Cars) | Won | ||
2010 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Toy Story 3 | Won | [39] |
Best Song Written for Visual Media | "Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | ||
2017 | Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals | "Putin" | Won | [40] |
2019 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" (from Toy Story 4 ) | Nominated | [41] |
Year | Association | Category | Film | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature | Toy Story | Won | [42] |
James and the Giant Peach | Nominated | ||||
1997 | Cats Don't Dance | Won | [43] | ||
2000 | Toy Story 2 | Won | [44] | ||
2002 | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | [45] | ||
2006 | Cars | Won | [46] | ||
2013 | Monsters University | Nominated | [47] | ||
2019 | Toy Story 4 | Nominated | [48] | ||
2009 | Black Reel Awards | Outstanding Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Won | [49] |
"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | ||||
2019 | Hollywood Film Awards | Hollywood Film Composer Award | Marriage Story | Won | [50] |
2019 | Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Best Original Score – Feature Film | Marriage Story | Nominated | [51] |
2019 | International Cinephile Society | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [52] |
1998 | Online Film & Television Association | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | Pleasantville | Nominated | [53] |
Best Original Family Score | A Bug's Life | Nominated | |||
1999 | Best Original Song | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2 ) | Nominated | [54] | |
2001 | Film Hall of Fame: Support | — | Inducted | [55] | |
2009 | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | [56] | |
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ) | Won | [57] | ||
2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [58] | |
1998 | Satellite Awards | Best Original Score | Pleasantville | Nominated | [59] |
Best Original Song | "That'll Do" (from Babe: Pig in the City ) | Nominated | |||
2003 | Best Original Score | Seabiscuit | Nominated | [60] | |
2009 | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | [61] | |
"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | ||||
2019 | "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" (from Toy Story 4 ) | Nominated | [62] | ||
Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | |||
1999 | Saturn Awards | Best Music | Toy Story 2 | Nominated | [63] |
2002 | World Soundtrack Awards | Soundtrack Composer of the Year | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | [64] |
Best Original Soundtrack of the Year | Nominated | ||||
Best Original Song Written for a Film | "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.) | Won | |||
2006 | "Our Town" (from Cars ) | Won | |||
2010 | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | |||
2011 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ) | Won |
Year | Association | Category | Film | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Austin Film Critics Association | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [65] |
1995 | Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Original Score | Toy Story | Won | [66] |
1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Nominated | |||
1998 | A Bug's Life | Nominated | |||
2019 | Marriage Story | Nominated | [67] | ||
2019 | Chicago Indie Critics | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [68] |
2019 | Columbus Film Critics Association | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [69] |
2019 | Florida Film Critics Circle | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [70] |
2019 | Greater Western New York Film Critics Association | Best Score | Marriage Story | Won | [71] |
2019 | Hawaii Film Critics Society | Best Score | Marriage Story | Won | [72] |
2009 | Houston Film Critics Society | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog ) | Nominated | [73] |
2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [74] | |
1998 | International Film Music Critics Association | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | A Bug's Life | Won | [75] |
Best Original Score for a Drama Film | Pleasantville | Nominated | |||
2006 | Best Original Score for an Animated Film | Cars | Nominated | [76] | |
2008 | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | Leatherheads | Nominated | [77] | |
2009 | Best Original Score for an Animated Film | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [78] | |
2010 | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [79] | ||
1999 | Best Original Song | Las Vegas Film Critics Society | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2 ) | Nominated | [80] |
2000 | "Meet the Parents" (from Meet the Parents ) | Nominated | |||
1981 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Music Score | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime ) | Won | [81] |
1990 | Avalon | Runner-up | [82] | ||
2019 | Latino Entertainment Journalists Association | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [83] |
2019 | New York Film Critics Circle | Special Award | — | Honored | [84] |
2019 | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Music | Marriage Story | Nominated | [85] |
2019 | North Dakota Film Society | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [86] |
Best Original Song | "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" (from Toy Story 4 ) | Nominated | |||
1998 | Online Film Critics Society | Best Original Score | Pleasantville | Won | [87] |
2019 | Marriage Story | Nominated | [88] | ||
2001 | Phoenix Film Critics Society | Best Original Song | "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc. ) | Nominated | [89] |
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3 ) | Nominated | [90] | ||
2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [91] |
2009 | St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association | Best Music | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [92] |
2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [93] | |
2019 | Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [94] |
Year | Association | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Disney Legends Awards | Disney Legends Awards | Inducted | [95] |
2010 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | Inducted | [96] |
2014 | Hollywood in Vienna | Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award | Honored | [97] |
2013 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Inducted | [98] |
2002 | Songwriters Hall of Fame | Induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame | Inducted | [99] |