List of awards and nominations received by Randy Newman

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 Movie Awards and seven Golden Globe Awards.

Randy Newman awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Totals Academy Awards 2 22 Annie Awards 4 8 Austin Film Critics Association 0 1 Black Reel Awards 1 2 British Academy Film Awards 0 1 Chicago Film Critics Association 1 4 Chicago Indie Critics Awards 0 1 Columbus Film Critics Association 0 1 Critics' Choice Movie Awards 0 4 DiscussingFilm Critic Awards 0 1 Florida Film Critics Circle 0 1 Golden Globe Awards 0 7 Grammy Awards 7 23 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association 1 1 Hawaii Film Critics Society 1 1 Hollywood Film Awards 1 1 Hollywood Music in Media Awards 0 1 Houston Film Critics Society 0 2 International Cinephile Society 0 1 International Film Music Critics Association 1 6 Las Vegas Film Critics Society 0 2 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1 2 Latino Entertainment Journalists Association 0 1 North Carolina Film Critics Association 0 1 North Dakota Film Society 0 2 Online Film & Television Association 1 6 Online Film Critics Society 1 2 Phoenix Film Critics Society 0 2 Primetime Emmy Awards 3 3 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 0 1 Satellite Awards 0 7 Saturn Awards 0 1 St. Louis Film Critics Association 0 2 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 0 1 World Soundtrack Awards 3 6
Wins	28
Nominations	125

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.

Major awards

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
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

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1982	Best Original Song Written for a Film	"One More Hour" (from Ragtime)	Nominated	[20]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
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]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1991	Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics	"He's Guilty!" (from Cop Rock: "Pilot")	Won	[24]
2004	Outstanding Main Title Theme Music	"It's a Jungle Out There" (from Monk	Won
2010	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	"When I'm Gone" (from Monk: "Mr. Monk and the End, Part 2")	Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1981	Best Original Song	"One More Hour" (from Ragtime)	Nominated	[25]
1989		"I Love to See You Smile" (from Parenthood)	Nominated
1990	Best Original Score	Avalon	Nominated
1995	Best Original Song	"You've Got a Friend in Me" (from Toy Story)	Nominated
1998	Best Original Score	A Bug's Life	Nominated
1999	Best Original Song	"When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2)	Nominated
2019	Best Original Score	Marriage Story	Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1969	Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)	"Is That All There Is?" (by Peggy Lee)	Nominated	[26]
1982	Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special	Ragtime	Nominated
1984	Best Instrumental Composition	The Natural	Won[a]
	Best Pop Instrumental Performance	"The Natural" (from The Natural)	Nominated
1989	Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television	"I Love to See You Smile" (from Parenthood)	Nominated
1991	Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television	Avalon	Nominated
		Awakenings	Nominated
1996	Best Country Collaboration with Vocals	"Long Tall Texan" (with Lyle Lovett)	Nominated
1999	Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	A Bug's Life	Won
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"The Time of Your Life" (from A Bug's Life)	Nominated
2000	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	Toy Story 2	Nominated
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2)	Won
2002	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	Monsters, Inc.	Nominated
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or 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
	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	Seabiscuit	Nominated
2006	Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media	Cars	Nominated
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"Our Town" (from Cars)	Won
2010	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	Toy Story 3	Won
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated
2017	Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals	"Putin"	Won
2019	Best Song Written for Visual Media	"The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" (from Toy Story 4)	Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Year	Association	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
1996	Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature	Toy Story	Won	[27]
			James and the Giant Peach	Nominated
1997			Cats Don't Dance	Won	[28]
2000			Toy Story 2	Won	[29]
2002			Monsters, Inc.	Nominated	[30]
2006			Cars	Won	[31]
2013			Monsters University	Nominated	[32]
2019			Toy Story 4	Nominated	[33]
2009	Black Reel Awards	Outstanding Original Song	"Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Won	[34]
			"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated
2019	Hollywood Film Awards	Hollywood Film Composer Award	Marriage Story	Won	[35]
2019	Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Best Original Score – Feature Film		Nominated	[36]
2019	International Cinephile Society	Best Original Score		Nominated	[37]
1998	Online Film & Television Association	Best Original Musical or Comedy Score	Pleasantville	Nominated	[38]
		Best Original Family Score	A Bug's Life	Nominated
1999		Best Original Song	"When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2)	Nominated	[39]
2001		Film Hall of Fame: Support	—	Inducted	[40]
2009		Best Original Song	"Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated	[41]
2010			"We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3)	Won	[42]
2019		Best Original Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[43]
1998	Satellite Awards	Best Original Score	Pleasantville	Nominated	[44]
		Best Original Song	"That'll Do" (from Babe: Pig in the City)	Nominated
2003		Best Original Score	Seabiscuit	Nominated	[45]
2009		Best Original Song	"Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated	[46]
			"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated
2019			"The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" (from Toy Story 4)	Nominated	[47]
		Best Original Score	Marriage Story	Nominated
1999	Saturn Awards	Best Music	Toy Story 2	Nominated	[48]
2002	World Soundtrack Awards	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Monsters, Inc.	Nominated	[49]
		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

Critics associations

Year	Association	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
2019	Austin Film Critics Association	Best Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[50]
1995	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Original Score	Toy Story	Won	[51]
1996			James and the Giant Peach	Nominated
1998			A Bug's Life	Nominated
2019			Marriage Story	Nominated	[52]
2019	Chicago Indie Critics	Best Original Score		Nominated	[53]
2019	Columbus Film Critics Association	Best Score		Nominated	[54]
2019	Florida Film Critics Circle	Best Score		Nominated	[55]
2019	Greater Western New York Film Critics Association	Best Score		Won	[56]
2019	Hawaii Film Critics Society	Best Score		Won	[57]
2009	Houston Film Critics Society	Best Original Song	"Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog)	Nominated	[58]
2019		Best Original Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[59]
1998	International Film Music Critics Association	Best Original Score for a Comedy Film	A Bug's Life	Won	[60]
		Best Original Score for a Drama Film	Pleasantville	Nominated
2006		Best Original Score for an Animated Film	Cars	Nominated	[61]
2008		Best Original Score for a Comedy Film	Leatherheads	Nominated	[62]
2009		Best Original Score for an Animated Film	The Princess and the Frog	Nominated	[63]
2010			Toy Story 3	Nominated	[64]
1999	Las Vegas Film Critics Society	Best Original Song	"When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2)	Nominated	[65]
2000			"Meet the Parents" (from Meet the Parents)	Nominated
1981	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Music Score	"One More Hour" (from Ragtime)	Won	[66]
1990			Avalon	Runner-up	[67]
2019	Latino Entertainment Journalists Association	Best Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[68]
2019	New York Film Critics Circle	Special Award	—	Honored	[69]
2019	North Carolina Film Critics Association	Best Music	Marriage Story	Nominated	[70]
2019	North Dakota Film Society	Best Original Score		Nominated	[71]
		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	[72]
2019			Marriage Story	Nominated	[73]
2001	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Original Song	"If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.)	Nominated	[74]
2010			"We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3)	Nominated	[75]
2019	San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle	Best Original Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[76]
2009	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	Best Music	The Princess and the Frog	Nominated	[77]
2019		Best Score	Marriage Story	Nominated	[78]
2019	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	Best Original Score		Nominated	[79]

Honorary awards

Year	Association	Category	Result	Ref.
2007	Disney Legends Awards	Disney Legends Awards	Inducted	[80]
2010	Hollywood Walk of Fame	Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame	Inducted	[81]
2014	Hollywood in Vienna	Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award	Honored	[82]
2013	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Inducted	[83]
2002	Songwriters Hall of Fame	Induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame	Inducted	[84]

Notes

1. Tied with John Williams for "Olympic Fanfare and Theme".