Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer.
He is an EGOT winner, having won a Primetime Emmy Award, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award (Oscar), and six Tony Awards.
Lloyd Webber is known for his various stage work Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1976), Cats (1981), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), Sunset Boulevard (1993), and School of Rock (2015).
British state honours 1992: Knight Bachelor, for services to the arts 1997: Life Peerage (as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire) 2024: Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter
Major professional awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Academy Awards 1973 Best Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring Jesus Christ Superstar 1996 Best Original Song "You Must Love Me" 2004 "Learn to Be Lonely"
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1996 Best Original Music Evita
Golden Globes Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Golden Globe Awards 1996 Best Original Song "You Must Love Me" 2004 "Learn to Be Lonely" 2019 "Beautiful Ghosts"
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Grammy Awards 1972 Best Pop Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus Jesus Christ Superstar Album of the Year 1973 1981 Best Cast Show Album Evita 1983 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Cats 1984 1986 Best Contemporary Composition Requiem 1988 Best Musical Cast Show Album The Phantom of the Opera 1990 Aspects of Love Grammy Legend Award 1994 Best Musical Show Album Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1995 Sunset Boulevard 2019 Best Musical Theater Album Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert 2021 Best Song Written for Visual Media "Beautiful Ghosts" 2022 Best Musical Theater Album Cinderella
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Laurence Olivier Awards 1978 Musical of the Year Evita 1981 Cats 1984 Starlight Express 1986 The Phantom of the Opera 1994 Best New Musical Sunset Boulevard 1999 Whistle Down the Wind 2001 The Beautiful Game 2002 Audience Award for Most Popular Show The Phantom of the Opera 2005 Best New Musical The Woman in White 2008 Society of London Theatre Special Award 2011 Best New Musical Love Never Dies 2017 School of Rock: The Musical
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2018 Outstanding Variety Special (Live) Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Tony Awards 1972 Best Original Score Jesus Christ Superstar 1980 Evita 1982 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1983 Best Musical Cats Best Original Score 1986 Best Musical Song and Dance Best Original Score 1987 Starlight Express 1988 Best Musical The Phantom of the Opera Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score 1989 Best Play Lend Me a Tenor Shirley Valentine 1990 Best Musical Aspects of Love Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score 1995 Best Musical Sunset Boulevard Best Original Score 2000 Best Revival of a Musical Jesus Christ Superstar 2006 Best Original Score The Woman in White 2012 Best Revival of a Musical Jesus Christ Superstar 2016 Best Musical School of Rock: The Musical Best Original Score 2018 Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre 2025 Best Revival of a MusicalSunset Boulevard Best Orchestrations 2026 Best Revival of a MusicalCats: The Jellicle Ball Best Orchestrations
Miscellaneous awards Drama Desk Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Drama Desk Awards 1972 Most Promising Composer Jesus Christ Superstar 1980 Outstanding Music Evita 1983 Cats 1986 Song and Dance 1987 Starlight Express 1988 Outstanding Musical The Phantom of the Opera Outstanding Music Outstanding Orchestrations 1989 Outstanding New Play Shirley Valentine 1990 Outstanding Musical Aspects of Love Outstanding Music Outstanding Orchestrations 1991 Outstanding New Play La Bête 1995 Outstanding Musical Sunset Boulevard 2012 Outstanding Revival of a Musical Jesus Christ Superstar 2016 Outstanding Musical School of Rock: The Musical Outstanding Music Outstanding Orchestrations
Gold Derby Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Gold Derby Awards2004 Best Original Song "Learn to Be Lonely"
Online Film & Television Association Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Score Evita Best Original Song "You Must Love Me" Best Adapted Song "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" 2004 "The Music of the Night"
Satellite Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Satellite Awards1996 Best Original Song "You Must Love Me" 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay The Phantom of the Opera Best Original Song "Learn to Be Lonely"
World Soundtrack Awards Year Category Nominated work Result World Soundtrack Awards2005 Best Original Song Written for a Film "Learn to Be Lonely"
Special honours American Theater Hall of Fame Year Honour Result 2009 American Theater Hall of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame Year Honour Result 1993 Hollywood Walk of Fame
Kennedy Center Honors Year Honour Result 2006 Kennedy Center Honors
Songwriters Hall of Fame Year Honour Result 1995 Songwriters Hall of Fame
Other awards 1984: Variety Club of Great Britain Awards Special Award. 1995: Praemium Imperiale 1997: Variety Club of Great Britain Awards Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness. 2008: Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music 2008: Woodrow Wilson Award for Public ServiceGans, Andrew (21 May 2008) , Playbill 2014: Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors 2019: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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