Biography
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.
Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2022
- Officer of the Order of Australia · 2017
- Ivor Novello Awards · 2014
- ARIA Award — Best Independent Release · 2013
- ARIA Award — Best Adult Contemporary Album · 2013
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- ARIA Award — Best Male Artist · 2008
- ARIA Award — Best Male Artist · 2001
- ARIA Award — Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album · 1997
- APRA Music Awards · 1996
- ARIA Award — Best Pop Release · 1996
- ARIA Award — Single of the Year · 1996
- Libera Award — Best Live Act
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · nominated
Filmography39 titles
Kylie
Idiot Prayer
Memoir of a Snail
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Distant Sky: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
The Velvet Queen
One More Time with Feeling
The English Surgeon
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Wings of Desire
Winged Migration
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Wind River
Prophet's Prey
West of Memphis
Train Dreams
Hell or High Water
This Much I Know to Be True
The Creative Brain
Lawless
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
L7: Pretend We're Dead
20,000 Days on Earth
The Road
The Proposition
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Far from Men
Back to Black
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Nocturama
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The New Boy
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
Blonde
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
War Machine
Kings
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music