List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Over his career he has received many accolades throughout his long career as a songwriter and performing artist. Dylan's professional career began in 1961 when he signed with Columbia Records. Fifty-five years later, in 2016, Dylan continued to release new recordings and was the first musician to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Dylan has received 10 competitive Grammy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. He received his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Folk Recording for his debut studio album Bob Dylan (1962). Dylan has won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh (1973) and Time Out of Mind (1997). For his song "Gotta Serve Somebody" in 1980 he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. He won Grammy Awards for his Folk Albums, World Gone Wrong in 1995, Time Out of Mind (1997), Love and Theft (2001), and Modern Times (2006). For the songs "Cold Irons Bound" (1998) and "Someday Baby" (2006) he won twice for Best Rock Vocal Performance.
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