Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson has won 8 ACM Awards from 40 nominations, first nominated at the 11th ACM Awards.

ACM Awards won: 8
Nominations: 40
First nominated: 1975
Most recent: 2017

ACM Awards career, 1965 to 2025

1975 nominated 1976 nominated1978 nominated 1979 won 1980 nominated1982 won 1983 nominated 1984 won 1985 won 1986 nominated 1987 nominated2002 won 2003 won2017 nominated

2017 53rd ACM Awards
- Nominated Vocal Event of the Year Funny (How Time Slips Away)
2003 39th ACM Awards
- Won Gene Weed Special Achievement Award
- Won ACM/LAUNCH Video of the Year Beer For My Horses
2002 38th ACM Awards
- Won Vocal Event of the Year Mendocino County Line
- Nominated Vocal Event of the Year Beer for My Horses
- Nominated Vocal Event of the Year Whiskey River
1987 23rd ACM Awards
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
1986 22nd ACM Awards
- Nominated Song of the Year Living In The Promiseland
1985 21st ACM Awards
- Won Single Record of the Year Highwayman
- Nominated Album of the Year Highwayman
- Nominated Top Vocal Duet
- Nominated Song of the Year Seven Spanish Angels
- Nominated Country Video of the Year Highwayman
1984 20th ACM Awards
- Won Single Record of the Year To All The Girls I've Loved Before
- Nominated Top Vocal Duet
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
- Nominated Song of the Year To All The Girls I've Loved Before
1983 19th ACM Awards
- Nominated Album of the Year Poncho & Lefty
- Nominated Top Vocal Duet
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
- Nominated Single Record of the Year Pancho & Lefty
1982 18th ACM Awards
- Won Album of the Year Always On My Mind
- Won Single Record of the Year Always On My Mind
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
- Nominated Top Male Vocalist
1980 16th ACM Awards
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
1979 15th ACM Awards
- Won Entertainer of the Year
- Nominated Album of the Year Willie Sings Kristofferson
1978 14th ACM Awards
- Nominated Album of the Year Stardust
- Nominated Entertainer of the Year
- Nominated Single Record of the Year Georgia On My Mind
- Nominated Single Record of the Year Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- Nominated Song of the Year Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
1976 12th ACM Awards
- Nominated Album of the Year Wanted - Outlaws
- Nominated Top Vocal Group
- Nominated Single Record of the Year Good Hearted Woman
1975 11th ACM Awards
- Nominated Album of the Year Red Headed Stranger
- Nominated Top Male Vocalist of the Year
- Nominated Single Record of the Year Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- Nominated Song of the Year Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

Beyond the ACM Awards

Grammy Awards: 14 wins 61 nominations
CMA Awards: 1 win 7 nominations
American Music Awards: 10 wins 22 nominations
RIAA certifications: 2 records 2 platinum

Halls of fame and honors

Grand Ole Opry member 1964
Country Music Hall of Fame 1993
Kennedy Center Honors 1998
Grammy Hall of Fame 2010
CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award 2012
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize 2015
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2023

Gold and platinum records

0 Gold
2 Platinum
0 Multi-Platinum
0 Diamond

Always on My MindPlatinum single
To All the Girls I've Loved BeforePlatinum single

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards 14 wins 61 nominations

Nominated 2026 Best Americana Album Last Leaf on the Tree
Nominated 2026 Best Traditional Country Album Oh What a Beautiful World
Nominated 2024 Best Bluegrass Album Bluegrass
Won 2023 Best Country Album A Beautiful Time
Won 2023 Best Country Solo Performance Live Forever
Nominated 2023 The Willie Nelson Family Best Roots Gospel Album
Nominated 2022 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album That's Life
Won 2020 Best Country Solo Performance Ride Me Back Home
Won 2019 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album My Way
Nominated 2019 Best American Roots Performance Last Man Standing
Won 2017 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Nominated 2011 Best Americana Album Country Music
Nominated 2010 Best Americana Album Willie and the Wheel with Asleep at the Wheel
Nominated 2010 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Baby, It's Cold Outside with Norah Jones
Nominated 2010 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album American Classic
Won 2008 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Lost Highway with Merle Haggard and Ray Price
Nominated 2007 Best Country Album You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
Nominated 2006 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Dreams Come True with Norah Jones
Nominated 2006 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Good Ol' Boys
Nominated 2005 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Pancho and Lefty with Merle Haggard and Toby Keith
Nominated 2005 Best Male Country Vocal Performance You Are My Flower
Nominated 2004 Best Country Album Live and Kickin'
Nominated 2004 Best Country Album Run That by Me One More Time with Ray Price
Nominated 2004 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Beer for My Horses with Toby Keith
Nominated 2004 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) with Waylon Jennings
Won 2003 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Mendocino County Line with Lee Ann Womack
Nominated 2003 Best Country Album The Great Divide
Nominated 2002 Best Country Album Rainbow Connection
Nominated 2002 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Maria
Nominated 2001 Best Long Form Music Video Teatro
Nominated 2001 Best Traditional Blues Album Milk Cow Blues
Won 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominated 2000 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Going Away Party with Asleep at the Wheel ] and The Manhattan Transfer
Nominated 2000 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Night and Day
Nominated 1998 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia
Nominated 1997 Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album How Great Thou Art
Nominated 1995 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Moonlight Becomes You
Nominated 1991 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Highwayman 2 with The Highwaymen
Won 1990 Legend Award Legend Award
Nominated 1986 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Highwayman with The Highwaymen
Nominated 1986 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Forgiving You Was Easy
Nominated 1985 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal As Time Goes By with Julio Iglesias
Nominated 1985 Best Male Country Vocal Performance City of New Orleans
Nominated 1984 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Pancho and Lefty with Waylon Jennings
Nominated 1984 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Take It to the Limit with Waylon Jennings
Won 1983 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Always on My Mind
Nominated 1983 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay with Waylon Jennings
Nominated 1983 Record of the Year Always on My Mind
Nominated 1982 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Won 1981 Best Country Song On the Road Again
Nominated 1981 Best Inspirational Performance Family Bible
Nominated 1981 Best Male Country Vocal Performance On the Road Again
Nominated 1980 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Heartbreak Hotel with Leon Russell
Nominated 1980 Best Inspirational Performance I Saw the Light
Nominated 1980 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Whiskey River
Won 1979 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys with Waylon Jennings
Won 1979 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Georgia on My Mind
Nominated 1977 Best Inspirational Performance Amazing Grace
Nominated 1977 Best Male Country Vocal Performance I'd Have to be Crazy
Won 1976 Best Male Country Vocal Performance Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Nominated 1975 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal After the Fire Is Gone with Tracy Nelson