Awards & Winners

Walter Murphy

Date of Birth 19-December-1952
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Murphy, Walter, Walter Muphy, Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr., Uncle Louie
Profession Musician, Music Arranger, Film Score Composer, Songwriter
Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. is an American instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger. He rose to fame with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of passages from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in 1976, when disco was rising in popularity.

Awards by Walter Murphy

Check all the awards nominated and won by Walter Murphy.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Everybody Needs a Best Friend
Ted

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition - Series Family Guy
And Then There Were Fewer","Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Family Guy
Extra Large Medium

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Family Guy
Peter's Two Dads

2002


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics
Honored for : Family Guy
(For the song You've Got a Lot to See)

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Family Guy
\"You've Got a Lot to See\"

1978


Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Honored for : Saturday Night Fever
(Producers, Artists)

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Album of the Year Saturday Night Fever

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for International Single of the Year A Fifth of Beethoven

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance A Fifth of Beethoven