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Burt Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.
He had received three Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, six Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Drama Desk Award. He was also nominated for a Tony Award.
Major awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1965 Best Song "What's New Pussycat?" 1966 "Alfie" 1967 "The Look of Love" 1969 Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Best Song – Original for the Picture "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" 1981 Best Original Song "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1970 Anthony Asquith Memorial Award Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1981 Best Original Film Music Arthur
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1966 Best Original Song "Alfie" 1969 Best Original Score Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Best Original Song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" 1971 "Long Ago Tomorrow" 1981 "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" 1982 "Making Love" 1986 "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To"
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1963 Song of the Year "Wives and Lovers" 1965 Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist "What the World Needs Now Is Love" 1967 Best Instrumental Theme "Casino Royale" Best Instrumental Arrangement "Alfie" "Casino Royale" Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Show Casino Royale 1969 Song of the Year "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Best Contemporary Song Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album Promises, Promises 1971 Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) "Long Ago Tomorrow" Best Pop Instrumental Performance Burt Bacharach 1981 Song of the Year "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" 1986 "That's What Friends Are For" Record of the Year 1996 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "God Give Me Strength" 1998 "I Still Have That Other Girl" 2005 Best Pop Instrumental Performance "In Our Time" Best Contemporary Instrumental Album At This Time 2020 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Blue Umbrella 2021 Best Musical Theater Album Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater's Some Lovers
Primetime Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1970 Outstanding Variety or Musical Program – Variety and Popular Music Kraft Music Hall 1971 Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music Another Evening with Burt Bacharach Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1969 Best Musical Promises, Promises
Miscellaneous awards Drama Desk Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1969 Outstanding Music Promises, Promises
Hollywood Music in Media Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2016 Best Original Song – Feature Film "Dancing with Your Shadow"
Satellite Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Original Song "God Give Me Strength" 2016 "Dancing with Your Shadow"
Special honors
1972, Songwriters Hall of Fame. 1997, Grammy Trustees Award, with Hal David. 1997, subject of a PBS "Great Performances" biography, "Burt Bacharach: This is Now"."Oldies but goodies: PBS documentary looks at Burt Bacharach and those melodies that still sound so good", Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1997.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: 2000, People magazine named him one of the "Sexiest Men Alive", and one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1999. 2001, Polar Music Prize, presented in Stockholm by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. 2002, National Academy Of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) New York Heroes Award. 2005, GQ Magazine Inspiration Award. 2006, George and Ira Gershwin Award for Musical Achievement from UCLA. 2006, Thornton Legacy Award, University of Southern California; also created the Burt Bacharach Music Scholarship at the Thornton School to support outstanding young musicians. 2008, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. 2009, Bacharach received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. The award was presented to him during the Great American Songbook concert, which paid tribute to his music.Dreilinger, Danielle (April 10, 2009), "Burt Bacharach: Class Act", Berklee College of Music. 2012, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, with Hal David, awarded by the Library of Congress.
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