List of awards and nominations received by U2

List of U2 awards

Award	Won
Academy Award	1
Brit Awards	7
MTV Video Music Award	6
Grammy Award	22
iHeartRadio Music Awards	2
Q Awards	11
Pollstar Awards	13
Juno Award	3
Billboard Touring Awards	9
Billboard Music Awards	9
American Music Award	1
Meteor Music Awards	15
NME Awards	3
Las Vegas Film Critics Society award	1
Golden Globe Award	2
People's Choice Awards	2
World Music Awards	2
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Inductee
Total
Awards won	108
Footnotes

This is a comprehensive list of major music awards received by U2, an Irish rock band that formed in 1976, and whose members are Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. U2 have been one of the most popular acts in the world since the mid-1980s. The band has sold more than 170 million albums worldwide^[1][2] and has won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other rock band.^[3]

U2 formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. By the mid-1980s, however, the band had become a top international act, noted for its anthemic sound, Bono's impassioned vocals, and The Edge's textural guitar playing. Their success as a live act was greater than their success as a record-selling act until their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree, which brought them mega-stardom.^[4]

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements in the United States film industry as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

Billboard Music Award

The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine and are held annually in December. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. U2 has nine awards from fifteen nominations.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Billboard Touring Awards

The Billboard Touring Awards is an annual meeting sponsored by Billboard magazine which also honors the top international live entertainment industry artists and professionals. It was established in 2004.

Brit Awards

The Brit Awards are awarded annually by the British Phonographic Industry. ^[11]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

The Critics' Choice Movie Awards is an awards show presented annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement.

Denver Film Critics Society

The Denver Film Critics Society is an organization of film critics based in Denver, Colorado.

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award are awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. U2 was nominated five times for Best Original Song: Their song "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" from the Wim Wenders film Faraway, So Close! was nominated in 1994, but lost against Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia". For "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever, they were nominated again in 1996, but again no win (losing to: "Colors of the Wind" by Vanessa L. Williams). Finally, in 2003, they received the award for "The Hands That Built America", which appeared in Gangs of New York. In 2010 their song "Winter" for the film Brothers was also nominated but lost against the song "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham for Crazy Heart.^[12] The Edge of U2 described how the band plans to celebrate the nomination. "I think we might have a pint of Guinness in honor of (director) Jim (Sheridan) and his great piece of work.^[13] In 2014, "Ordinary Love" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Grammy Award

They won 22 awards. The Grammy Award are awarded annually by the Recording Academy in the United States. To date, U2 are tied with Stevie Wonder in having won the most Grammy Awards of any artist of contemporary music with a total of 22 awards from 47 nominations. They have won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group seven times, while winning Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rock Album all twice.^[14][15]

iHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards are sponsored by iHeartMedia.^[16][17]

International Dance Music Awards

The International Dance Music Award was established in 1985. It is a part of the Winter Music Conference, a weeklong electronic music event held annually.^[18]

Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards are awarded for songwriting and composing. The awards, named after the Cardiff born entertainer Ivor Novello, are presented annually in London by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).^[19] U2 has won three awards from five nominations.

Juno Award

The Juno Award are presented annually to Canadians musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music.

LOS40 Music Awards

The LOS40 Music Awards is an award show by the musical radio station Los 40.

MTV

Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom or Ireland.^[24]

Music Video Production Awards

The MVPA Awards are annually presented by a Los Angeles-based music trade organization to honor the year's best music videos.^[25]

NME Awards

The NME Awards were created by the NME magazine and was first held in 1953.^[26] U2 has received six nominations.

UK Music Video Awards

The UK Music Video Awards is an annual award ceremony founded in 2008 to recognise creativity, technical excellence and innovation in music videos and moving images for music.^[27]

World Soundtrack Academy

The World Soundtrack Academy launched in 2001 by the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent

Other awards

In 1989 and 1993, U2 won Juno Awards for International Entertainer of the Year, and subsequently, producer Daniel Lanois won the Jack Richardson Best Producer Award for the production of "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation".^[36] In 1992, U2 won No. 1 Album Tracks Artist at the Billboard Music Awards for "Mysterious Ways".^[37] In 2001, they received both the NME Award for "Godlike Genius" and "Best Rock Act".^[38] The following year, they received the award for "Best Live Act".^[39] In 2003 they received both the Golden Globe Award^[40] and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award^[41] for Best Song for "The Hands That Built America", which appeared in Gangs of New York. The following year they won Favorite Group at the People's Choice Awards.^[42] In 2005 the band was inducted into the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[43]

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

• McGee, Matt (2008). U2: A Diary. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84772-108-2.