Awards and Nominations
Elvis on Tour (1972) won the 1973 Golden Globe award for Best Documentary film. Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese was the montage supervisor for the film. Andrew W. Solt was a researcher on the movie.
Elvis Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award for best male performance in a musical film for Tickle Me (1965). This was the only acting award that he received during his movie career.
For Viva Las Vegas (1964), he received a 3rd place prize 1965 Laurel Award for best male performance in a musical film. Viva Las Vegas also was runner-up in the category of the best musical of 1964 in the 1965 Laurel Awards.
Girls! Girls! Girls! was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical at the 1963 ceremony. Elvis Presley received a 2nd place Laurel Award for the best male performance in a musical for his acting role in this movie.
Screenwriters Gene Nelson and Gerald Drayson Adams were nominated by the Writers Guild of America for the best written musical for their screenplay for Kissin' Cousins (1964).
Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss were nominated for the award for Best Written American Musical by the Writers Guild of America for writing the script for the 1964 film Roustabout (1964).
The G.I. Blues soundtrack album was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1960 in the categories Best Sound Track Album Or Recording Of Original Cast From A Motion Picture Or Television and Best Vocal Performance Album, Male. Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson were both nominated in 1961 by the Writers Guild of America for G.I. Blues in the category of Best Written American Musical.
The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album Or Recording Of Original Cast From A Motion Picture Or Television. Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category Best Written American Musical for the Blue Hawaii screenplay.
In 2004, Jailhouse Rock (1957) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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