Thursday 22 January 2009

Bruce Springsteen Awards

Grammy Awards
Springsteen has won 18 Grammy Awards, as follows (years shown are the year the award was given for, not the year in which the ceremony was held):
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, 1984, "Dancing in the Dark"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, 1987, "Tunnel of Love"
Song of the Year, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"
Best Rock Song, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"
Best Contemporary Folk Album, 1996, The Ghost of Tom Joad
Best Rock Album, 2002, The Rising
Best Rock Song, 2002, "The Rising"
Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, 2002, "The Rising"
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, 2003, "Disorder in the House" (with Warren Zevon)
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2004, "Code of Silence"
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2005, "Devils & Dust"
Best Traditional Folk Album, 2006, The Seeger Sessions: We Shall Overcome
Best Long Form Music Video, 2006, "Wings For Wheels: The Making Of Born to Run"
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2007, "Radio Nowhere"
Best Rock Song, 2007, "Radio Nowhere"
Best Rock Instrumental Performance, 2007, "Once Upon A Time In The West"
Only one of these awards has been one of the cross-genre "major" ones (Song, Record, or Album of the Year); he has been nominated a number of other times for the majors, but failed to win.


Academy Awards
Academy Award for Best Original Song, 1993, "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia.

Emmy Awards
The Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City HBO special won two technical Emmy Awards in 2001 and was nominated in four more categories.

Other recognition
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "Streets of Philadelphia" in 1994.
Polar Music Prize in 1997.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1999.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1999.
Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, 2007.
"Born to Run" named "The unofficial youth anthem of New Jersey" by the New Jersey state legislature; something Springsteen always found to be ironic, considering that the song "is about leaving New Jersey".
The minor planet 23990, discovered Sept. 4, 1999, by I. P. Griffin at Auckland, New Zealand, was officially named in his honor.
Ranked #23 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Made Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of The Year 2008 list.
Won Critic's Choice Award for Best Song with "The Wrestler" in 2009.
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "The Wrestler" in 2009.

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