Randy Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist. The following are a list of his wins and nominations for awards in music.
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). He has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, seven Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from The Recording Academy.[1] 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] In September 2014, Randy Newman received a Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award and performed at the annual film music gala Hollywood in Vienna for the first time together with his cousin David Newman.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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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 |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1982 | Best Original Song | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime) | Nominated | [20] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Best Score | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [21] |
Best Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | ||
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3) | Nominated | [22] | |
2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [23] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1981 | Best Original Song | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime) | Nominated | [24] |
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 |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1969 | Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) | "Is That All There Is?" (by Peggy Lee) | Nominated | [25] |
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 |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1991 | Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | "He's Guilty!" (from Cop Rock) | Won | [26] |
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) | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production | 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] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [34] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Outstanding Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Won | [35] |
"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1995 | Best Original Score | Toy Story | Won | [36] |
1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Nominated | ||
1998 | A Bug's Life | Nominated | ||
2019 | Marriage Story | Nominated | [37] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [38] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [39] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [40] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Won | [41] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Won | [42] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Hollywood Film Composer Award | Marriage Story | Won | [43] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score – Feature Film | Marriage Story | Nominated | [44] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | [45] |
2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [46] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [47] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | A Bug's Life | Won | [48] |
Best Original Score for a Drama Film | Pleasantville | Nominated | ||
2006 | Best Original Score for an Animated Film | Cars | Nominated | [49] |
2008 | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | Leatherheads | Nominated | [50] |
2009 | Best Original Score for an Animated Film | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [51] |
2010 | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [52] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | Best Original Song | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2) | Nominated | [53] |
2000 | "Meet the Parents" (from Meet the Parents) | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1981 | Best Music Score | "One More Hour" (from Ragtime) | Won | [54] |
1990 | Avalon | Runner-up | [55] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [56] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Special Award | — | Honored | [57] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Music | Marriage Story | Nominated | [58] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [59] |
Best Original Song | "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" (from Toy Story 4) | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | Pleasantville | Nominated | [60] |
Best Original Family Score | A Bug's Life | Nominated | ||
1999 | Best Original Song | "When She Loved Me" (from Toy Story 2) | Nominated | [61] |
2001 | Film Hall of Fame: Support | — | Inducted | [62] |
2009 | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | [63] |
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3) | Won | [64] | |
2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [65] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Best Original Score | Pleasantville | Won | [66] |
2019 | Marriage Story | Nominated | [67] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Best Original Song | "If I Didn't Have You" (from Monsters, Inc.) | Nominated | [68] |
2010 | "We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3) | Nominated | [69] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [70] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Best Original Score | Pleasantville | Nominated | [71] |
Best Original Song | "That'll Do" (from Babe: Pig in the City) | Nominated | ||
2003 | Best Original Score | Seabiscuit | Nominated | [72] |
2009 | Best Original Song | "Almost There" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | [73] |
"Down in New Orleans" (from The Princess and the Frog) | Nominated | |||
2019 | "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" (from Toy Story 4) | Nominated | [74] | |
Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | Best Music | Toy Story 2 | Nominated | [75] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Best Music | The Princess and the Frog | Nominated | [76] |
2019 | Best Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [77] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Best Original Score | Marriage Story | Nominated | [78] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2002 | Soundtrack Composer of the Year | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | [79] |
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 |
Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Disney Legends Awards | Inducted | [80] |
Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Inducted | [81] |
Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award | Honored | [82] |
Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
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2013 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Inducted | [83] |
Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
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2002 | Songwriters Hall of Fame | Inducted | [84] |