Bernie Taupin is slated to obtain the Outstanding Career Achievement Award throughout the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) to be held on Nov. 20 at The Avalon in Hollywood, Calif. The present, now in its fifteenth yr, honors composers, songwriters and music supervisors for his or her contributions in music for movie, TV, video video games and extra.

Submissions for all HMMA classes are open via Oct. 31. The full checklist of ultimate nominations might be introduced on Nov. 4.

Taupin, after all, is best-known for his lengthy, hit-studded and award-winning collaboration with Elton John. The pair had been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 and acquired that group’s prime honor, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 2013. In 2020, they acquired each an Oscar and a Golden Globe for greatest unique track for co-writing “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from the hit biopic Rocketman. Earlier this yr, they acquired the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, in addition to an Ivor Novello for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Most not too long ago, Taupin cowrote (with John, Brandi Carlile, and Andrew Watt) the unique track “Never Too Late” for the Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late. The track is carried out by John and Carlile.

Remarkably, their solely songwriting collaboration to obtain a Grammy nomination was the soundtrack to the 1971 teen romance movie Friends (no relation to the later TV megahit), which gained greatest unique rating written for a movement image or a tv particular. Go determine.

Taupin has additionally had some notable successes impartial of John. He co-wrote Heart’s “These Dreams” and Starship’s “We Built This City,” each of which topped the Billboard Hot 100. He acquired a Grammy nod for greatest nation track for cowriting “Mendocino County Line,” which was recorded by Willie Nelson & Lee Ann Womack. His track “A Love That Will Never Grow Old,” sung by Emmylou Harris for the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack, gained a Golden Globe for greatest unique track. Taupin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical excellence award class in 2023. Fittingly, John did the honors in inducing him.

Past HMMA Career Achievement Award recipients embody Marc Shaiman, Kenny Loggins, Smokey Robinson, Diane Warren, Earth Wind & Fire, Glen Campbell, Dave Mason, John Debney, and Christopher Young.

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