Brian Wilson
Acting
Born 1942-06-20
Died 2025-06-11
Inglewood, California, USA
97 credits
Grammy Awards 3
Kennedy Center Honors 1
MusiCares Person of the Year 1
Awards
Won 3 Grammy Awards
Grammy Awards 3 won · 7 nominated
- 2013 Best Historical Album Won The Smile Sessions
- 2006 Best Music Film Nominated
- 2005 Best Pop Vocal Album Nominated Smile
- 2005 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Won The Elements: Fire
- 1999 Best Historical Album Nominated The Pet Sounds Sessions
- 1967 Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Nominated Good Vibrations
- 1967 Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Nominated Good Vibrations
- 1967 Best Performance by a Vocal Group Nominated Good Vibrations
- 1967 Best Contemporary Song Nominated Good Vibrations
- — Grammy Awards Won
Kennedy Center Honors 1 won
- — Kennedy Center Honors Won
MusiCares Person of the Year 1 won
- 2005 MusiCares Person of the Year Won
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song 1 nominated
- 1988 Worst Original Song Nominated Let's Go to Heaven in My Car
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Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 — June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader.
Wilson was considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Full House
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Dick Cavett Show
Champs-Elysées
Omnibus
Duck Dodgers
Classic Albums
Behind the Music
The Ed Sullivan Show
Goldene Kamera
The Kennedy Center Honors
Hack
Legends
Love & Mercy
Live Aid
Disorderlies
The Beach Boys
Dr. Feelgood
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Live 8
The Wrecking Crew
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Tales of the Rat Fink
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Beach Blanket Bingo
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Monkey's Uncle
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
The Girls on the Beach
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
The T.A.M.I. Show
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Streetlight Harmonies
My Music: A Classic Christmas
The Beach Boys and The Satan
Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
The Return of Bruno
Brian Wilson - Live at Baloise Session
Mellodrama
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony
Going Home
The Beach Boys: 25 Years Together - A Celebration In Waikiki
The Beach Boys: Live At Knebworth
The Beach Boys: It's OK
The Beach Boys: It's OK
The Swinging 60's - The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys: Doin' It Again
Other credits
5 credits
Love & Mercy
Food Rocks
Bad Vibrations
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
The Beach Boys: It's OK
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