List of awards and nominations received by Paul McCartney

Sir Paul McCartney awards and nominations

McCartney performing in 2000
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 3 Emmy Awards 1 3 Golden Globes 0 3 Grammy Awards 19 83
Totals[a]
Wins	67
Nominations	122
Note ^ 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.

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Paul McCartney.

Sir Paul McCartney is an English songwriter, musician and composer. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, 19 Grammy Awards, and a Emmy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 and was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2017.^[1] He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, and honored with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010, and Rolling Stone listed him as one of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

As a member of The Beatles, his songwriting partnership with John Lennon produced "some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".^[2] In 1965, they won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group for A Hard Day's Night. They won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "Michelle" in 1967 and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for their eight studio album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1968. They won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Let It Be in 1971.

As a member of Wings, he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Band on the Run" in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Rockestra Theme" in 1980. As a solo artist, he won Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Kisses on the Bottom in 2013, and the Best Rock Song for "Cut Me Some Slack" in 2014.

For film, as part of the Beatles, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Let It Be from the 1970 film of the same name. He was further Oscar-nominated for Live and Let Die from the 1973 film of the same name and Vanilla Sky from the 2001 film of the same name. He received three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "No More Lonely Nights" from Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), "Vanilla Sky" from the 2001 film of the same name, and "(I Want to) Come Home" from Everybody's Fine (2009).

On television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for Disney+ documentary miniseries The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He was previously Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program for Paul McCartney's Standing Stone (1989) and Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special for the concert special Paul McCartney in Red Square (2005).

In addition to his 19 Grammy wins, McCartney received the academy's MusiCares Person of the Year award in 2012. McCartney was honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award twice. The first in 1990 for his solo work and then with The Beatles in 2014. The Beatles were also, honoured with a Grammy Trustees Award in 1972.^[3][4][5] McCartney has also received eight BRIT Awards, two American Music Awards, one Classical Brit Awards, one Critics' Choice Movie Award, one MTV Video Music Award, and one MTV Europe Music Award.

Organizations	Year	Notes	Result	Ref.
Library of Congress	2010	Gershwin Prize	Honored	[58][59]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	2010	Kennedy Center Honors	Honored	[60]
Queen Elizabeth II	1965	Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)	Honored	[61][62]
Queen Elizabeth II	1997	Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)	Honored	[63][64]
Songwriters Hall of Fame	1987	Induction	Honored	[65]
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame	1999	Induction	Honored	[66]
The Republic of Peru	2011	Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun	Honored	[67]
National Library of Peru	2011	Medal of Honor	Honored	[68]
French President François Hollande	2012	Legion of Honour	Honored	[1]
Hollywood Walk of Fame	2012	Star at 1750 N. Vine Street.	Honored	[69]
Queen Elizabeth II	2017	Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)	Honored	[70]
Rolling Stone	2023	Sir Paul at #67 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time	Honored	[71]

Date	Country	Ribbon	Award
12 Jun 1965	United Kingdom		Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).[61][62]
Dec 1993	Chile		Order of Merit (unknown grade).[citation needed]
31 Dec 1996	United Kingdom		In the 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.[63][64]
5 Dec 2010	United States		Kennedy Center Honors.[72]
5 May 2011	Peru		Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun, the highest award bestowed by the nation of Peru[d].[67]
9 May 2011	Peru		La Orden del Árbol de la Quina, an order given by the Ministry of Environment of Peru for his environmental work.[68]
9 May 2011	Peru		Medal of Honor of the National Library of Peru.[68]
8 Sep 2012	France		Officer of the Legion of Honour for services to music, awarded by French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace.[1]
16 Jun 2017	United Kingdom		In the 2017, McCartney was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for his services to music.[70][73]

Sir Paul was also considered for a Peerage in March 2022 for his 80th birthday.^[74]