List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan

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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]

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Dylan in 2012 with President Barack Obama presenting Dylan with the Medal of Freedom
Dylan with President Barack Obama in 2012
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  1. 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.
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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

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2001 Best Original Song "Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys) Won [5]
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BAFTA Awards

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British Academy Film Awards
1973 Best Original Music Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Nominated
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Golden Globe Awards

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2001 Best Original Song "Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys) Won [6]
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Grammy Awards

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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
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Other awards and nominations

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GMA Dove Awards 1980 Album by a Secular Artist Slow Train Coming Won [8]
MVPA Awards 2013 Best Rock Video "Duquesne Whistle" Nominated
mtvU Woodie Awards 2014 Did it My Way Woodie Himself Nominated [9]
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
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Honorary awards

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

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