List of awards and nominations received by Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) was an American composer and conductor.
Award | Wins | Nominations |
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0 | 1 | |
7 | 13 | |
16 | 63 | |
2 | 4 | |
Over the course of his distinguished career he won 16 Grammy Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), 7 Emmy Awards and 2 Tony Awards over his lifetime. His awards are both for his conducting and his compositions. He also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the Elia Kazan drama film On the Waterfront (1954).
Bernstein is also a member of both the American Theater Hall of Fame[5] and the Television Hall of Fame.[6] In 2015, he was inducted into the Legacy Walk.[7] He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1980 and was offered but declined the National Medal of the Arts.
He also received numerous honors including the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1951[8] the Fellow at the MacDowell 1962, 1970, 1972,[9] the Sonning Award (Denmark) in 1965, the Ditson Conductor's Award in 1958, the George Peabody Medal – Johns Hopkins University in 1980, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 1987, the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (UK) in 1987, the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1987[10]