List of awards and nominations received by Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly awards and nominations
Male standing at a microphone, wearing a harmonica in a cradle and staring into the distance.
Paul Kelly, November 2007
Totals[a]
Wins30
Nominations79
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

Paul Kelly is an Australian rock/folk musician, singer-songwriter who started his professional career in 1974 and released his first recording in 1979.[1] Kelly, in various guises, has released eighteen studio albums, Talk (1981), Manila (1982), Post (1985), Gossip (1986), Under The Sun (1987), So Much Water So Close To Home (1989), Comedy (1991), Hidden Things (1992), Wanted Man (1994), Deeper Water (1995), Words and Music (1998), Smoke (1999), Professor Ratbaggy (1999), Nothing But A Dream (2001), Ways & Means (2004), Foggy Highway (2005), Stardust Five (2006), and Stolen Apples (2007).[2]

Kelly has won and been nominated for numerous music awards. They include nine Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards and three Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards/Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Awards. APRA also named "To Her Door", solely written by Kelly,[3][4] and "Treaty", written by Kelly and members of Indigenous Australian band Yothu Yindi,[5][6] in the Top 30 best Australian songs of all time in 2001.[7] Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997 alongside the Bee Gees and Graeme Bell.[8][9] This induction recognised his achievement of a "significant body of recorded work" and that he "has had a cultural impact within Australia".[8] Kelly has also won awards in the country music field with six from the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) and three more from the Victorian Country Music Awards. As a live performer, Kelly won four Australian entertainment industry awards or Mo Awards.

In 2019, at the Screen Music Awards, Paul Kelly won Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for "Every Day My Mother's Voice" with Dan Sultan.[10]

  1. ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  2. ^ Holmgren, Magnus. "Paul Kelly". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  3. ^ ""To Her Door" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 30 September 2008.
  4. ^ ""To Her Door" at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)". ASCAP. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
  5. ^ ""Treaty" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 30 September 2008.
  6. ^ ""Treaty" at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)". American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
  7. ^ Kruger, Debbie (2 May 2001). "The songs that resonate through the years" (PDF). Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  8. ^ a b "ARIA 2008 Hall of Fame inductees listing". ARIA Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2 August 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  9. ^ "Winners by Award: Hall of Fame". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  10. ^ "Behind last night's wins by Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe & David Bridie at the 2019 Screen Music Awards". The Music Network. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.