Nick Cave

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1957 age 0

   Born

2. 1987 age 30

   CreditWings of Desire

3. 2007 age 50

   CreditThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

   CreditThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fordcomposer

4. 2009 age 52

   CreditThe Roadcomposer

5. 2012 age 55

   CreditLawlesscomposer

   CreditLawlessscreenwriter

6. 2016 age 59

   CreditHell or High Watercomposer

7. 2017 age 60

   CreditWind Rivercomposer

8. 2022 age 65

   CreditBlondecomposer

• GDGarret Dillahunt3 titles
• BPBrad Pitt2 titles
• JRJeremy Renner2 titles
• DTDylan Tichenor2 titles
• GPGuy Pearce2 titles
• GBGil Birmingham2 titles
• JHJohn Hillcoat2 titles
• PBPeter Berg2 titles
• TSTaylor Sheridan2 titles
• WEWarren Ellis2 titles

• The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Do you want to know how to write a song? Song-writing is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key. Putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle, and again, you wait, and you watch ... And if that doesn't do it... you shoot the clown.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite, it is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past. It is those dangerous, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist beyond the limits of what he or she recognises as their known self. This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one’s vulnerability, one’s perilousness, one’s smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden shocking discovery; it is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes in the inner workings of the song their own blood, their own struggle, their own suffering.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0

• God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  Nick Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0