Willie Nelson keeps racking up Grammy Award awards. He won his 10th in 2020 show and his 11th and 12th in 2023. Since 1974, he’s received 59 Grammy nominations.
Here are all of Nelson’s nominations, from most recent to oldest:
2025 – Best Country Album: Oh What a Beautiful World
2023 – Best County Album: A Beautiful Time WIN
2023 – Best Country Solo Performance: “Live Forever” WIN
2023 – Best Country Solo Performance: “Live Forever”
2019 – Best Country Solo Performance: “Ride Me Back Home” WIN
2018 – Best Country Album: My Way WIN
2018 – Best American Roots Performance: Last Man Standing
2016 – Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin WIN
2010 – Best Americana Album: Country Music
2009 – Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
2009 – Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: American Classic
2009 – Best Americana Album: Willie and the Wheel (with Asleep at the Wheel)
2007 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Lost Highway WIN
2006 – Best Country Album: You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
2005 – Best Male Vocal Country Performance: “Good Ol’ Boys”
2005 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Dreams Come True”
2004 – Best Male Vocal Country Performance: “You Are My Flower”
2004 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Pancho & Lefty”
2003 – Best Country Album: Run That By Me One More Time
2003 – Best Country Album: Alive and Kickin’
2003 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Beer for My Horses”
2003 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want to Get Over You)”
2002 – Best Country Album: The Great Divide
2002 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Mendocino County Line” WIN
2001 – Best Country Album: The Rainbow Connection
2001 – Best Male Vocal Country Performance: “Marie”
2000 – Lifetime Achievement Award WIN
2000 – Best Traditional Blues Album: Milk Cow Blues
2000 – Best Long Form Music Video: “Teatro”
1999 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance: “Night and Day”
1999 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Going Away Party”
1997 – Best Male Vocal Country Performance: “Peach Pickin’ Time Down in Georgia”
1996 – Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album: How Great Thou Art
1994 – Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance: Moonlight Becomes You
1990 – Grammy Legend Award
1990 – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Highwayman 2
1986 – President’s Merit Award
1985 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “Forgiving You Was Easy”
1985 – Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: “Highwayman”
1984 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “City of New Orleans”
1984 – Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: “As Time Goes By”
1983 – Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: “Pancho and Lefty”
1983 – Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Take It to the Limit (with Waylon Jennings)
1982 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “Always on My Mind” WIN
1982 – Record of the Year: “Always on My Mind”
1982 – Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
1981 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
1980 – Best Country Song: “On the Road Again” WIN
1980 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “On the Road Again”
1980 – Best Inspirational Performance: Family Bible
1979 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “Whiskey River”
1979 – Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: “Heartbreak Hotel”
1979 – Best Inspirational Performance: “I Saw the Light”
1978 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “Georgia on My Mind” WIN
1978 – Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: “Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
1976 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “I’d Have to Be Crazy”
1976 – Best Inspirational Performance: “Amazing Grace”
1975 – Best Country Vocal Solo Performance, Male: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” WIN
1974 – Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: “After the Fire Is Gone”
Nelson ranks No. 14 in most Grammy nominations. Beyoncé leads with 99, followed by Jay-Z (89), Paul McCartney (83), Quincy Jones (80), Kanye West (76) and Stevie Wonder (74).
