He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. He is one of sixteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Arts, six Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and an Emmy Award. The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, with lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical." In 2001, The New York Times referred him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as " Memory" from Cats, " The Music of the Night" and " All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, " I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, " Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, and " Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. Golden Globe, Best Original Song (1996)Īndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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