--- name: "Neil Young" canonical: "https://film.one/person/neil-young" fi1m_id: "neil-young" imdb_id: "nm0949918" tmdb_id: 15425 wikidata_id: "Q633" roles: ["Composer"] born: "12 November 1945" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T18:49:50.392211+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Neil Young ## Identity Neil Young - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/neil-young - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** neil-young - **IMDb ID:** nm0949918 - **TMDB ID:** 15425 - **Wikidata ID:** Q633 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15425 Composer. Born 12 November 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 12 November 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Also known as:** Neil Percival Young, Pinecone Young, Marc Lynch, Joe Yankee, Clyde Coil, Shakey Deal, Phil Perspective, Bernard Shakey, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young & Crazy Horse - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 crew, 1 other - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1990s 81 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15425 ## Streaming the US now - **The Criterion Channel:** [*Dead Man*](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Neil Young is a Canadian musician, composer and actor. Born on 12 November 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, he began his career in the 1960s in Winnipeg before moving to the United States. Young composed and performed the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's *Dead Man* (1995), recording improvised guitar, piano and organ pieces while watching an early cut of the film. He has appeared as himself in concert documentaries including *Woodstock* (1970) and *The Last Waltz* (1978), and played a truck driver in *Made in Heaven* (1987). He has also directed films such as *Human Highway* (1982) and *Greendale* (2003). Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1995 and as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Crew (1) — the average rests on these - *Dead Man* (1995), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md) ## Complete filmography (59) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Corduroy Plants* (2026), Producer - *The Boxer* (2025), Music - *Coastal* (2025), Music - *LincVolt* (2024), series, Director, Creator - *Trans: The Animated Story* (2024), as Dialogue - *Catalyst* (2024), Director, Sound Mixer - *Neil Young - Boarding House 1978* (2024), Director, Music Producer, Writer - *Across the Water* (2024), Director - *Neil Young: Harvest Time* (2022), Executive Producer, Director, Music - *Neil Young: Young Shakespeare* (2022), Director - *Neil Young & Crazy Horse: World Record: The Making Of - A Chronicle of the Music* (2022), Director - *Neil Young + The Promise of the Real: Noise & Flowers* (2022), Director - *Barn* (2021), as Producer - *Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down in the Rust Bucket* (2021), Producer - *Return to Greendale* (2020), Director, Music - *The Times* (2020), Actor - *Yield* (2020), as Pa Carnago - *Mountaintop* (2019), Director - *Neil Young in London* (2019), as Producer - *Bachman* (2018), Actor - *Paradox* (2018), as The Man in the Black Hat · Original Music Composer, Producer - *Neil Young: Hometown* (2017), Producer - *The Silent Scream* (2017), as Digital Imaging Technician - *Seeding Fear* (2015), Executive Producer - *The Monsanto Years* (2015), Producer, Songs - *Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session* (2015), Music - *Muddy Track* (2015), Director - *A Letter Home* (2014), Director, Music Producer - *Neil Young with Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill* (2012), Actor - *Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Canadian Horsepower* (2012), Actor - *Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Americana* (2012), Actor - *Neil Young Journeys* (2012), Executive Producer, Music - *A Day at the Gallery* (2012), Author, Director - *Neil Young - Le Noise* (2011), as Neil Young · Producer, Songs - *Neil Young - Archives Vol.1 (1963-1972)* (2009), Actor - *Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ‎– Déjà Vu* (2008), Director - *Neil Young: Under Review 1976 - 2006* (2007), Actor - *Neil Young: Heart of Gold* (2006), Executive Producer, Music - *Neil Young: Prairie Wind* (2005), Actor - *Greendale* (2004), as Wayne Newton · Director, Director of Photography, Music Producer, Original Music Composer, Writer - *Neil Young: Greendale: Live at Vicar Street* (2003), Actor - *Neil Young: Red Rocks Live* (2000), as Executive Producer - *Neil Young: Silver & Gold* (2000), Actor - *Year of the Horse* (1997), Music, Executive Producer - *Emmylou Harris: Building the Wrecking Ball* (1996), Music - *Dead Man* (1995), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md) - *Neil Young with Pearl Jam - Live at Hasselt Belgium* (1995), Actor - *Neil Young and Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions* (1995), Producer, Mixing Engineer - *Phone* (1992), Thanks - *Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Weld* (1991), Director - *Love at Large* (1990), as Rick - *'68* (1988), as Westy - *Made in Heaven* (1987), as Truck Driver - *Neil Young: Solo Trans* (1984), Producer, Writer - *Human Highway* (1982), as Lionel Switch / Frankie Fontaine · Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer - *Out of the Blue* (1981), as Theme Song Performance - *Where the Buffalo Roam* (1980), Original Music Composer - *Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps* (1979), Director, Editor - *Journey Through the Past* (1972), Director, Editor ## Gallery - ![Neil Young](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-007133fe7d17.jpg) Neil Young — Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Neil_Young_Stavernfestivalen_2016_%28220929%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Posters at junction of Binderij / Maalderij, Amstelveen 2008](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-c40b551e178e.jpg) Posters at junction of Binderij / Maalderij, Amstelveen 2008 — Yuri de Vroom, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Binderij_-_panoramio.jpg/1280px-Binderij_-_panoramio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![GRAYSCALED image (1968)](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-8d32846769dc.jpg) GRAYSCALED image (1968) — Unknown authorUnknown author This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications made by Dcameron814., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Buffalo_Springfield_1968_publicity_shot.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Busto de Neil Young. Ubicación: Parque Andrés Eloy Blanco. Ciudad: Puerto La Cruz. Estado: Anzoátegui. País: Venezuela (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-9fdbd6b5d81d.jpg) Busto de Neil Young. Ubicación: Parque Andrés Eloy Blanco. Ciudad: Puerto La Cruz. Estado: Anzoátegui. País: Venezuela (2024) — Guaiquerí, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Busto_de_Neil_Young.jpg/1280px-Busto_de_Neil_Young.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Neil Young](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-d5116984b194.jpg) Neil Young — Image via TMDB - ![Neil Young](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-ff734cabc46a.jpg) Neil Young — Image via TMDB - ![A performance by Neil Young on October 8, 2016 from the music festival Desert Trip, held at the Empire Polo Club](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-927e4b4078e3.jpg) A performance by Neil Young on October 8, 2016 from the music festival Desert Trip, held at the Empire Polo Club — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/DesertTrip2016-100_%2830229740491%29.jpg/1280px-DesertTrip2016-100_%2830229740491%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![A performance by Neil Young on October 8, 2016 from the music festival Desert Trip, held at the Empire Polo Club](https://film.one/media/person/86484/gallery-72eb5fb96844.jpg) A performance by Neil Young on October 8, 2016 from the music festival Desert Trip, held at the Empire Polo Club — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/DesertTrip2016-101_%2830018719620%29.jpg/1280px-DesertTrip2016-101_%2830018719620%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1994: Best Original Song (nominated), for *Philadelphia* ### Other awards — 16 won, 34 nominated - Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year 2021: Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year (nominated), for *Colorado* - Grammy Hall of Fame 2013: Grammy Hall of Fame (won), for *After the Gold Rush* - Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year 2011: Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year (won), for *Le Noise* - Juno Award for Artist of the Year 2011: Juno Award for Artist of the Year (won) - Juno Humanitarian Award 2011: Juno Humanitarian Award (won) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 2010: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Le Noise* - Grammy Award for Best Rock Song 2010: Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (won) - Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2010: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - MusiCares Person of the Year 2010: MusiCares Person of the Year (won) - Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package 2009: Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package (won), for *The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972* - Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2009: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2008: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year 2008: Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year (nominated), for *Chrome Dreams II* - Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year 2007: Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year (nominated), for *Living with War* - Americana Award for Artist of the Year 2006: Americana Award for Artist of the Year (won) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 2006: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Living with War* - Grammy Award for Best Rock Song 2006: Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2006: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award 2006: Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award (won) - Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year 2006: Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year (won), for *Prairie Wind* - Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 2006: Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (nominated) - Order of Manitoba 2006: Order of Manitoba (won) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 2005: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Prairie Wind* - Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2005: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo 2001: Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo (nominated), for *Silver & Gold* - Canada's Walk of Fame 2000: Canada's Walk of Fame (won) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 1996: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Broken Arrow* - Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year 1996: Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year (nominated), for *Mirror Ball* - Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 1995: Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 1995: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Mirror Ball* - Grammy Award for Best Rock Song 1995: Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (nominated) - Juno Award for Entertainer of the Year 1995: Juno Award for Entertainer of the Year (nominated) - Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 1995: Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (nominated) - MTV Europe Music Award for Best Male 1995: MTV Europe Music Award for Best Male (nominated) - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won) - Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 1994: Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 1994: Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (nominated), for *Sleeps with Angels* - Juno Award for Album of the Year 1994: Juno Award for Album of the Year (won), for *Harvest Moon* - Juno Award for Single of the Year 1994: Juno Award for Single of the Year (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal 1993: Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (nominated) - Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1993: Grammy Award for Record of the Year (nominated) - Grammy Award for Song of the Year 1993: Grammy Award for Song of the Year (nominated) - Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 1993: Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 1990: Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (nominated) - Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 1989: Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Freedom* - MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year 1989: MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year (won) - MTV Video Music Award – Viewer's Choice 1989: MTV Video Music Award – Viewer's Choice (nominated) - MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video 1984: MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video (nominated) - Canadian Music Hall of Fame 1982: Canadian Music Hall of Fame (won) - Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 1975: Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (nominated) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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