2003Nominee
Best Performance
The Brown Bunny
Gordon Lightfoot
Actor
Orillia, Ontario, Canada
November 17, 1938
Biography
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Lightfoot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2019Nominee
Best Performance
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
1974Nominee
Best Performance
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances 1974
Career Highlights
1982Highlight
Best Performance
Harry Tracy, Desperado
1985Highlight
Best Performance
Tears Are Not Enough
Video
The Brown Bunny
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind