I have been fortunate to have been nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys. I have won two Oscars, a Grammy, and eight Ivor Novello Awards.
Chronology
Awards
Academy Award
1982 Oscar: Best Music Score
"Victor/Victoria"
1967 Oscar: Best Song
"Talk to the Animals" from "Doctor Dolittle"
Grammy Award
1962 5th Annual Grammy Awards Song of the Year
What Kind of Fool Am I ?
Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse, songwriters.
Ivor Novello Award
8 Ivor Novello Awards awards, including: My Kind of Girl,
What Kind of Fool Am I, and Stop the World I Want to Get Off.
Nominations
Academy Awards (10)
1991 Academy Awards: Best Song
"When You're Alone" from Hook
1990 Academy Awards: Best Song
"Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone
1986 Academy Awards: Best Song
"Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life
1982 Academy Awards: Adaptation and Original Score
Victor/Victoria
1971 Academy Awards: Adaptation and Original Score
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1970 Academy Awards: Song - Original for the Picture
1970 Academy Awards: Song – Original for the Picture
"Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge
1969 Academy Awards: Original Music Score
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1967 Academy Awards: Original Music Score
Doctor Dolittle
1967 Academy Awards: Best Song
"Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle
Tony Awards (4)
1997 Best Book of a Musical
Jekyll & Hyde
1965 Tony Award: Best Composer and Lyricist
The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd
With Anthony Newley
1963 Tony Award: Best Composer and Lyricist
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
Book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
1963 Tony Award: Best Author of a Musical
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
Grammy Awards (9)
9 Grammy Award nominations
Honours
1989 Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame
only the fourth Englishman to be so honoured –
after Noel Coward, John Lennon and Paul McCartney
1989 British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors:
Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British songwriting