Awards & Winners

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine. Initially managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, the Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in 1962. The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars and romance. During the early to mid-1960s, Brian Wilson's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Wilson-composed Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound that represented a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys' early years. Starting in 1967, Wilson gradually ceded control to the rest of the band, reducing his input due to mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered international critical success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America, despite the period when they were the primary competitors to the Beatles. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired. Dennis Wilson drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, versions of the band, fronted by surviving original members, continued to tour into the 2000s. For the band's 50th anniversary, they briefly reunited as the Beach Boys for a new studio album, world tour, and career-spanning retrospective box set.

Awards by The Beach Boys

Check all the awards nominated and won by The Beach Boys.

2009


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : California Girls / Let Him Run Wild
(Award for 'California Girls')

2000


Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Music Film The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony

1998


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Be True to Your School/In My Room
(In My Room)

1997


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Pet Sounds

1993


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Good Vibrations

1989


Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Song
Honored for : Kokomo

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Song Kokomo

1988


American Music Award of Merit

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Kokomo

1966


Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group Good Vibrations