List of awards and nominations received by Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney's awards include eight BRIT Awards, eighteen Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award, one MTV Europe Music Award, one Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, one Classical Brit Awards and two UK's Q Awards. As a member of The Beatles, his songwriting partnership with John Lennon produced "some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".[1]
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In the United Kingdom, McCartney has been knighted[2][3] and was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).[4][5] In 2017, he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to music.[6]
In the United States, McCartney received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010.
In May 2011 in Peru, he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun, La Orden del Arbol de la Quina for his environmental protection work, and the Medal of Honor from the National Library of Peru.[7][8]
On 8 September 2012 in France, McCartney was awarded the Legion of Honour for services to music by French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace.[9]