Bernie Taupin will receive the Outstanding Career Achievement Award at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards

Bernie Taupin is set to receive the Outstanding Career Achievement Award during the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) on November 20 at The Avalon in Hollywood, California. The show, now in its 15th year, honors composers, songwriters and music supervisors for their contributions to music for film, television, video games and more.

Submissions for all HMMA categories are open until October 31st. The full list of finalists will be announced on November 4.

Taupin, of course, is best known for his long, successful and award-winning collaboration with Elton John. The pair was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 and received that organization's top honor, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 2013. In 2020, they also received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song Co-Written (I 'm Gonna) Love Me Again” from the hit biopic Rocketman. Earlier this year, they received the Library of Congress Gershwin Award for Popular Song, as well as an Ivor Novello for their outstanding contribution to British music. Most recently, Taupin wrote (with John, Brandi Carlile and Andrew Watt) the original song “Never Too Late” for the Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never too late. The song is performed by John and Carlile.

Notably, their only Grammy-nominated songwriting collaboration was the soundtrack to the 1971 teen rom-com Friends (no relation to the later TV megahit), which won Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special. Go figure.

Taupin also had some notable successes independent of John. He co-wrote Heart's 'These Dreams' and Starship's 'We Built This City,' both of which topped the Billboard Hot 100. He received a Grammy nod for Best Country Song for cowriting 'Mendocino County Line ”, which was recorded by Willie Nelson & Lee Ann Womack. His song 'A Love That Will Never Grow Old', sung by Emmylou Harris for the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack, won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. Taupin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of Music Excellence Awards in 2023. Fittingly, John did the honors that prompted him.

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

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