Editing Bill Conti (section)

==Awards and nominations==
Conti has been nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one in the [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] category for ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |website=Oscars.org |access-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> He also received nominations in the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] category for "[[Gonna Fly Now]]" from ''[[Rocky]]'' and for the title song of ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=COMPOSER CONTI WILL CONDUCT AT 62ND ACADEMY AWARDS |url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/1/24/18842878/composer-conti-will-conduct-at-62nd-academy-awards |work=[[Deseret News]] |date=January 24, 1990 |access-date=December 11, 2014}}</ref>

He had three Golden Globe nominations; two for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] for ''[[Rocky]]'' and ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]'', and one for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] for the title song of ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/bill-conti |title=Bill Conti |website=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=December 11, 2014}}</ref>

Conti also received thirteen Emmy nominations, all but one for his role as musical director at the [[Academy Awards]] (the exception, his first nomination, was for his music for the 1985 series ''[[North and South (miniseries)|North and South]]''). He won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Musical Direction for the [[64th Academy Awards|64th]], [[70th Academy Awards|70th]] and [[75th Academy Awards|75th]] Academy Award ceremonies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Awards Search|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=bill+conti&field_is_winner%5B1%5D=1&submit=Search&search_api_views_fulltext_1=&search_api_views_fulltext_3=&search_api_views_fulltext_2=&search_api_views_fulltext_4=&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2014-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nomination_category=All |website=Emmys |access-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821094041/http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=bill+conti&field_is_winner%5B1%5D=1&submit=Search&search_api_views_fulltext_1=&search_api_views_fulltext_3=&search_api_views_fulltext_2=&search_api_views_fulltext_4=&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2014-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nomination_category=All |archive-date=August 21, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On April 22, 2008, at the LSU Union Theatre at Louisiana State University, Conti was inducted into the [[Louisiana Music Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://louisianamichalloffame.org/content/view/59/73/ |title=BILL CONTI - 2008 |website=[[Louisiana Music Hall of Fame]] |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224000648/http://louisianamusichalloffame.org/content/view/59/73/ |archive-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref>