List of awards and nominations received by Elton John

Sir Elton John is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. He is one of the few performers to have won the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), having won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, six Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award. He has also received two Golden Globe Awards and an Laurence Olivier Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 49th on its list of 100 influential musicians of the rock and roll era.^[1] He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2004. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) in 2020 and made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by French President Emmanuel Macron.^[2]

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Sir Elton John awards and nominations

John at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 2 5 Emmy Awards 1 1 Golden Globes 2 4 Grammy Awards 6 37 Tony Awards 1 4
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Wins	67
Nominations	124
Note [a] 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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John has sold over 300 million records worldwide during his six-decade career in music, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.^[3][4][5][6] He has more than fifty Top 40 hits in the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100, including nine number ones in the UK and US, as well as seven consecutive number-one albums in the US.^[7][8] His 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and his 1974 Greatest Hits compilation album are among the best-selling albums worldwide.^[9] His tribute single "Candle in the Wind 1997", a rewritten version of his 1974 single in dedication to Princess Diana, sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling chart single of all time.^[10][11][12] In 2019, John was ranked by Billboard as the top solo artist in US chart history (third overall), and the top Adult Contemporary Artist of all time.^[13][14] In 2021, John became the first solo artist with UK Top 10 singles across six decades.^[15][16][17]

John is also known for his work on the stage and film; he wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Lion King (1998), Aida (2000), and Billy Elliot the Musical (2009), and also wrote the songs for the Disney animated film The Lion King (1994). Over his six decade career in music, John has received 35 Grammy Award nominations receiving five wins and a Grammy Legend Award in 1999. He also received the three Tony Award nominations winning for Best Original Score for his work on Broadway for The Lion King in 1998, Aida in 2000, and Billy Elliot the Musical in 2009. For his work on film he received four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King (1994), and "I'm Gonna Love Me Again" for Rocketman (2019). John won an Emmy award in 2024 for his program Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, completing the set of television (Emmy), music (Grammy), movie (Oscar) and stage (Tony) awards known as an EGOT.