Awards & Winners

Paul Williams

Date of Birth 19-September-1940
Place of Birth Omaha
(Douglas County, Nebraska, United States of America, Area codes 402 and 531, Area code 402, Area code 531)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Paul H. Williams, Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr., Paul Hamilton Williams, Paul H. Williams, Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr., Paul H. Williams, Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr., Paul H. Williams, Paul H. Williams, Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr.
Profession Songwriter, Actor, Singer, Musician, Film Score Composer, Voice Actor, Screenwriter, Composer, Film director, Writer
Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an American composer, singer-songwriter, director, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's rendition of "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", David Bowie's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays", as well as his contributions to films, such as writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping "Evergreen", the love theme from A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Song; and "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. He also composed the enormously popular opening theme for The Love Boat, originally performed by Jack Jones, and later, by Dionne Warwick. He has also had a variety of high-profile acting roles such as Little Enos Burdette in the highly successful 1977 action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit, and as the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, as well as television, theater, and voice-over work for animation.

Awards by Paul Williams

Check all the awards nominated and won by Paul Williams.

2013


Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Honored for : Random Access Memories

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Album of the Year Random Access Memories

2012


Satellite Auteur Award

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Original Song Still Alive
Paul Williams Still Alive
BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Song Still Alive
from Paul Williams Still Alive: Paul Williams (performer/written by)

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Song Title: I Wish I Could Be Santa Claus

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Children's Programming The Muppet Show
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Rainbow Connection
The Muppet Movie

1979


Grammy Award for Best Album for Children
Honored for : The Muppet Movie
(Producers)

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score The Muppet Movie
Academy Award for Best Original Song Rainbow Connection
The Muppet Movie
Grammy Award for Best Album for Children The Muppet Movie

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music A Star Is Born

1977


Grammy Award for Song of the Year
Honored for : Evergreen
(Two songs won this year.)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Honored for : Evergreen
(A Star Is Born)

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year Evergreen
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Bugsy Malone
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Bugsy Malone
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Evergreen
A Star Is Born
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone

1976


Academy Award for Best Original Song
Honored for : Evergreen
(A Star Is Born)

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Bugsy Malone
Academy Award for Best Original Song Evergreen
A Star Is Born

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Phantom of the Paradise

1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year You and Me Against the World
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Phantom of the Paradise

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Nice to Be Around
Cinderella Liberty

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year We've Only Just Begun