Grammy Awards
1991 - 33rd Annual Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance: Stone Cold Crazy
1992 - 34th Annual Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance (Vocal Album): Metallica (The Black Album)
1998 - 41st Annual Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance: Better Than You
1999 - 42nd Annual Grammy Awards Best Hard Rock Performance: Whiskey in the Jar
2000 - 43rd Annual Grammy Awards Best Rock Instrumental: Call Of Ktulu (S&M)
2003 - 46th Annual Grammy Awards Best Metal Performance for St. Anger.
2009 - 51st Annual Grammy Awards Metal Performance: My Apocalypse (Death Magnetic)
2009 - 51st Annual Grammy Awards Recording Package: Death Magnetic - Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner
MTV Video Music Awards
1992 - MTV Music Video Awards Best Metal Video: Enter Sandman
1996 - MTV Music Video Awards Best Metal Video: Until it Sleeps
2003 - MTV Icon Award: Metallica
American Music Awards
1993 Favourite Artist: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock: Metallica: Live Shit: Binge & Purge
1997 Favourite Artist: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock: Metallica: Load
1997 Favourite Metal/Hard Rock song: Metallica: Until it Sleeps
California Music Awards (The Bammies)
1996 - Bammies Outstanding Drummer: Lars Ulrich
1997 - Bammies Outstanding Hard Rock Album: ReLoad
2004 - Bammies Outstanding Guitarist: Kirk Hammett
Billboard Music Award
1988 - Billboard Music Video Cassette of the year: Cliff 'em all
1997 - Billboard Rock and Roll Artist of the Year: Metallica
1999 - Catalogue Artist of the Year: Metallica
1999 - Catalogue Album of the Year: Metallica
KERRANG Awards
2003 - Kerrang! Hall of Fame: Metallica
2004 - Best Band on the Planet: Metallica
2008 - Inspiration Award: Metallica
Governor's Award San Francisco
2004 - Creative Excellence and Outstanding Achievement: Metallica
VH1 Music Awards
2000 - Best Stage Spectacle: Metallica
2000 - Gods of Thunder: Metallica
Recording Industry Association of America
1999 - Diamond Award: Metallica for 10 million sales of 'Metallica'
Sports & Music Awards
2001 - Artist Contribution Award at the ESPN Action: Metallica
Juno Awards
2005 - Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award: "Some Kind Of Monster" (Bob Rock)
Independent Spirit Awards
2005 - Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) won Best Documentary Feature
Spike Guys' Choice Awards
2009 - Ballsiest Band Award: Metallica
[1]Metallica was ranked by MTV as the third "Greatest Heavy Metal Band in History",
[2]Metallica was listed number 5 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock",
[3]and was number 1 on VH1's "20 Greatest Metal Bands" list.
[4] In 2006, Kerrang! magazine ranked Metallica as the third most important band in the past
25 years, and three of Metallica's albums were included in Kerrang!'s "100 Greatest Rock
Albums Ever" list: Ride the Lightning (number 80), Metallica (number 15), and Master of
Puppets (number 2). Master of Puppets was ranked number 167 on Rolling Stone's "500 Great
Albums of all time", and Metallica was number 252.
[5] Master of Puppets was named in Q Magazine's "50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time",
[6] ranked number 1 on IGN's "Top 25 Metal Albums",
[7] and number 1 on the Metal-rules.com "Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums" list.
[8] The song "Enter Sandman" was number 399 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
[9]Metallica was awarded the MTV icon award in 2003, and a concert was held paying tribute to the
band with artists performing cover versions of the band's songs. Performances included Sum 41 with
a medley of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Enter Sandman", and "Master of Puppets". Staind covered
"Nothing Else Matters", Avril Lavigne played "Fuel", rap artist Snoop Dogg sang "Sad But True",
Korn played "One", with Limp Bizkit performing a rendition of "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)".
[10] On March 7, 1999, Metallica was inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame. The mayor of
San Francisco, Willie Brown, proclaimed the day "Official Metallica Day" in San Francisco.
Other Awards
Metallica and Michael Kamen win Arthur M. Sochot award for excellence for S&M.
Lars wins California Music Award for outstanding drummer. April 8 2000
Metallica wins for: Favorite Turn -It-Up-Loud CD (S&M), Most Talked About Artist, Internet Hero (Lars),
Favorite Group, Best Fan Website. October 27 2000
Metallica awarded the Creative Voice Award by ASCAP for "significant career achievements are
equally informed by their creative spirit and by their contributions to the role that a creator
can play in their community." May 18 2004
James was honored as the recipient of the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication and support
of the MusiCares MAP Fund and his devotion to helping other addicts with the recovery process. 2006
April 4, 2009 MetallicA Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
