Awards & Winners

Cynthia Weil

Date of Birth 18-October-1940
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Songwriter
Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann. Weil was trained as an actress and dancer but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann whom she would marry in August 1961. The couple has one daughter, Dr Jenn Berman, AKA "Dr. Jenn". Weil became one of the Brill Building songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll. She and her husband went on to create songs for numerous contemporary artists, winning a number of Grammy Awards and Academy Award nominations for their compositions for film. As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part: "Mann and Weil... [works went from] epic ballads to outright rockers [and they also] placed an emphasis on meaningful lyrics in their songwriting. With Weil writing the words and Mann the music, they came up with a number of songs that addressed such serious subjects as racial and economic divides[,] “Uptown,” ...and the difficult reality of making it in the big city. “Only in America”... tackled segregation and racism, making it rather too controversial for the Drifters, who were the intended artists. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”... became an anthem for [the] Vietnam soldier, antiwar protesters, and young people who viewed it as an anthem of greater opportunities."

Awards by Cynthia Weil

Check all the awards nominated and won by Cynthia Weil.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Whatever You Imagine

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year Don't Know Much

1987


Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Honored for : Somewhere Out There
(Songwriters)
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
Honored for : Somewhere Out There
(songwriters)

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year Somewhere Out There
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Somewhere Out There
An American Tail
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Somewhere Out There

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Somewhere Out There
An American Tail

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best R&B Song Through the Fire

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song The Time For Love Is Any Time
Cactus Flower