^Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge 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 has performed in many guises including: as a solo act; as the leader of various bands – the Paul Kelly Band, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, Paul Kelly and the Messengers, Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions, and Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys; and as a member of the related projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five.[1][2][11] He has also performed or composed award-winning or nominated songs with other artists including Christine Anu, Uncle Bill, Kev Carmody and Archie Roach.[1][2][11] The category for which he has received most nominations is Best Male Artist, or its equivalent as Male Vocalist of the Year (Country Music) or Male Rock Performer, with a total of 14 nominations resulting in four wins.
Australian of the Year Awards
The Australian of the Year Awards were established in 1960, in celebration Australia Day (26 January), to give proper recognition to a leading citizen, whose contribution to the nation's culture, economy, sciences or arts was particularly outstanding.[12] The recipient is determined by the National Australia Day Council from the State winners.[13] Kelly was a Victorian State Finalist for the 2012 Australian of the Year Award.[14]
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards
These awards have been presented by the ARIA since 1987. Paul Kelly has won 17 ARIA Awards from at least 61 nominations, including his first win in 1988 for the 'Best Video' award for "To Her Door", which was written by Kelly and performed by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls.[3][4] His success has been across categories, being successful five times in 'Best Adult Contemporary Album', three times in the 'Best Male Artist' and three times in the 'Best Original Soundtrack' categories.[15] Kelly has been nominated for 'Best Male Artist' eighteen times including a run of eight years in a row 1995 to 2002 winning in 1997, 1998 and 2017.[15] Kelly was also inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997 alongside Bee Gees and Graeme Bell.[8][9] In 2019 he became the first artist to be nominated in three genre categories for three different releases – he won two of those awards.[16] Further genre-hopping occurred in 2020 with a win for Best Jazz Album.[17]
Please Leave Your Light On – Paul Kelly and Paul Grabowsky
Best Jazz Album
Won
Paul Kelly – Making Gravy 2019
Best Australian Live Act
Nominated
Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards
These awards were established by APRA in 1982 to honour the achievements of songwriters and music composers, and to recognise their songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance, by its members annually. Paul Kelly has won two APRA Awards out of four nominations.[28][29][30][31] The songs "To Her Door" and "Treaty", written or co-written by Kelly,[3][4][5][6] were also voted in the Top 30 Best Australian songs of all time in 2001 by a panel of 100 music industry personalities.[7]
At the 2011 APRA Music Awards Kelly was honoured with the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.[32]
These awards are presented annually by APRA in conjunction with Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for television and films scores and soundtracks. Paul Kelly has won one award from four nominations.[42][43]
Countdown was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974 to 1987, it presented music awards from 1979 to 1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards.[45]
Year
Nominee / work
Award
Result
1986
Gossip
Best Album
Nominated
"Before Too Long"
Best Male Performance in a Video
Nominated
Best Single
Nominated
himself
Best Songwriter
Nominated
Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) Awards
These annual awards have been presented by CMAA since 1973,[46] to "encourage, promote and recognise excellence in Australian country music recording."[47] Paul Kelly has won six Country Music Awards from twelve nominations.[48][49][50]
The Mo Awards are the annual Australian entertainment industry awards, and recognise achievements by performers in live entertainment in Australia since 1975.[58] The award categories are reviewed and in 2008 were: Musical Theatre, Opera, Classical, Comedy, Country and Variety.[58] In 1989 and 1990, they included a Rock category, Paul Kelly won four Mo Awards, twice as Male Rock Performer and twice as leader of Paul Kelly and the Messengers to win the Rock Group award.[59][60]
Year
Nominee / work
Award
Result
1989
Paul Kelly
Male Rock Performer
Won
Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Rock Group
Won
1990
Paul Kelly
Male Rock Performer
Won
Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Rock Group
Won
Helpmann Awards
The Helpmann Awards recognise achievements in live performance in Australia. In 2015, Kelly received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance[61]
These annual awards are presented by the Victorian Country Music Association. Paul Kelly won three awards for the 2000 album Smoke or one of its tracks "Until Death Do Them Part", all recorded by Paul Kelly with Uncle Bill.[68]
^Video for "To Her Door" was directed by Claudia Castle.[18][19]
^ abThe nomination was shared with fellow composer / performer Christine Anu,[22] Anu and Kelly performed "Last Train" as a duet, the video was directed by Paul Elliot and Sally Bongers, Anu was also nominated as 'Best Breakthrough Artist' for the song.[23]
^The nomination was for production work by Angelique Cooper including on "Last Train" by Anu and Kelly; Neil Murray's "Holy Road" (Remix); and Yothu Yindi's "World Turning" (Remix)
^Nomination to Chris Dickie for engineering Kelly's "Tease Me – Tease Me", and Black Sorrows' songs "Chained to the Wheel", "Chosen Ones" and "New Craze".
^Sensual Being was produced for Archie Roach, Kelly also produced Roach's 1990 album Charcoal Lane.
^ abThe nomination is shared with fellow composer / performer, Dan Luscombe,[25][26] also a member of Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions and of Stardust Five.
^The nominations / award are shared with fellow composers / performers, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey & ANAM Musicians.[27]
^ abThe award was shared with fellow songwriters of "Treaty", members of Yothu Yindi: Stuart Kellaway, Witiyana Marika, Milkayggu Mununggurr, Cal Williams, Gurrumul Yunupingu and Mandawuy Yunupingu;[5][6] who performed the song on their 1991 album Tribal Voice and released it as a single.
^The nomination was shared with fellow songwriter of "I Wish I was a Train", Troy Cassar-Daley,[33] they also performed the song as a duet.
^The nomination was shared with fellow songwriters of Conversations with Ghosts, James Ledger, Dan Kelly, Emily Dickinson, Norman MacCaig, Les Murray, Kenneth Slessor, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats.[34] It was performed as an ensemble by Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey and musicians from Australian National Academy of Music.[34]
^The award was shared with fellow composers / performers, Mairead Hannan, Kev Carmody, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan, Alice Garner.[44]
^The award was shared with fellow composer / performer Kev Carmody,[51] Carmody, Kelly and numerous other musicians performed "From Little Things Big Things Grow" on Carmody's 1993 album Bloodlines and it was also released as a single. Paul Kelly and the Messengers had recorded it earlier on their 1991 album Comedy.
^ abcThe nomination / awards were shared with fellow performers, members of Uncle Bill: Adam Gare, Gerry Hale, Peter Somerville and Stuart Speed.
^ abcdThe nominations / award are shared by Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys, members are: Kelly, Mick Albeck, James Gillard, Rod McCormack, Ian Simpson and Trev Warner. "You're Learning", "Song of the Old Rake" and "Rally Around the Drum" are songs on their 2005 album Foggy Highway. The video for "Song of the Old Rake" was directed by Nice Trees.
^The award was shared with co-writer and performer Troy Cassar-Daley,[52][53] who won three other CMAA awards in 2006.
^The award was shared with Melinda Schneider, who performed "Still Here" as a duet with Kelly, she was co-writer of "Still Here" with Jay Knowles.[54]
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