List of awards and nominations received by Deadmau5

Deadmau5 awards and nominations
	Deadmau5 live and unmasked in Glastonbury in 2009
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
Grammy	0
Juno	3
World Music	0
Beatport Music Awards	5
DJ Awards	4
DJ Magazine Awards	0
IDMA	3
Totals
Wins	15
Nominations	42
	Note ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination. ;

This is the list of awards and nominations received by deadmau5, a Canadian record producer and DJ from Toronto, Ontario.

Amongst his major competitive achievements, Zimmerman has won five Beatport Music Awards, four DJ Awards, three International Dance Music Awards (IDMA), three Juno Awards, and has also received six Grammy Award nominations and one World Music Award nomination. Overall in his career to date he has won 15 competitive awards and received 42 nominations.

Beatport Music Awards

On 1 May 2008, Zimmerman became the most awarded artist of the Beatport Music Awards. He was named "Best Progressive House Artist" by Beatport.^[1] (In 2009, Beatport also awarded Zimmerman the most awards that year, winning first place in both of his nominations, as well as being given the "Greatest House DJ Ever" award, two years in a row). In June 2010, Beatport announced the winners of their annual Beatport Music Awards, awarding Zimmerman Best Electro House Artist, Best Progressive House Artist, and as the "most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music over the past 12 months".^[2]


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2008	deadmau5	Best Electro House Artist	Won
	deadmau5	Best Progressive House Artist	Won
	Not Exactly	Best Single	Won
	Community Funk (deadmau5 Remix) by Burufunk, Carbon Community	Best Remix	Nominated
2009	deadmau5	Best Electro House Artist	Won
2009	deadmau5	Best Progressive House Artist	Won

DJ Awards

The DJ Awards organizes the annual electronic music DJ awards event it is the only international ceremony for DJs and also the oldest, the awards are held once a year at Pacha club in Ibiza Spain it is one of the most important accolades an artist can win or be honoured by.^[3]

Zimmerman has won the Best International DJ Award 2010 and the Best Electro House DJ Award three times.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2008	deadmau5	Best Electro House DJ	Won
2008	deadmau5	Best Breakthrough Artist	Nominated
2009	deadmau5	Best Electro House DJ	Nominated
2010	deadmau5	Best Electro House DJ	Won
2010	deadmau5	Best International DJ	Won
2011	deadmau5	Best Electro House DJ	Won
2012	deadmau5	Best Electro House DJ	Nominated
2013	deadmau5	Best International DJ	Nominated

DJ Magazine Awards

Zimmerman was also named "Producer of 2007" by DJ Magazine's 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren,^[4] and by runner up Tiësto.^[5] In 2008, he placed No. 11 in the DJ Magazine Top 100 poll, the highest new entry in the poll's history, showing Zimmerman's fast rise to prominence. Artists are nominated to the top 100 list for each year the public decides who they rank as the World's No 1 DJ at the end of the poll.

Year	Position	Change	Ref.
2008	11	New Entry	^[6]
2009	6	+5
2010	4	+2
2011	4	No Change
2012	5	-1
2013	12	-7
2014	16	-4
2015	25	-9
2016	31	-6
2017	49	-18
2018	59	-10
2019	71	-12
2020	64	+7
2021	52	+12
2022	65	–13
2023	65	No Change

Grammy Awards


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2009	The Longest Road (deadmau5 Remix) (Morgan Page feat. Lissie)	Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical	Nominated
2012	Rope (deadmau5 Remix) (Foo Fighters)	Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical	Nominated
	Raise Your Weapon (feat. Greta Svabo Bech)	Best Dance Recording	Nominated
	4x4=12	Best Dance/Electronic Album	Nominated
2013	> album title goes here <		Nominated
2015	while(1<2)		Nominated
2024	Kx5	Best Dance/Electronic Album	Nominated

International Dance Music Awards

In March 2010, Zimmerman was nominated for four International Dance Music Awards himself, and his music for three more awards, winning three, including Best Artist (Solo) and Best Canadian (see complete list below).^[7]


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2010	deadmau5	Best Canadian DJ	Won
		Best Artist	Won
		Best Global DJ	Nominated
		Best Producer	Nominated
	Ghosts 'n' Stuff (feat. Rob Swire)	Best Electro Track	Won
	Ghosts 'n' Stuff (feat. Rob Swire)	Best Video	Nominated
	Strobe	Best Progressive/Tech Track	Nominated

Juno Awards

Zimmerman received two nominations for the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2008 for a track with Billy Newton-Davis and Melleefresh. He did not win an award for Melleefresh's "After Hours" song, but he won the award for Newton-Davis' "All U Ever Want".^[8]


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2008	Afterhours (with Melleefresh)	Dance Recording of the Year	Nominated
2008	All U Ever Want (with Billy Newton-Davis)	Dance Recording of the Year	Won
2009	Random Album Title	Dance Recording of the Year	Won
2009	Move for Me (with Kaskade)	Dance Recording of the Year	Nominated
2010	For Lack of a Better Name	Dance Recording of the Year	Won
2012	deadmau5	Artist of the Year	Nominated
2013	deadmau5	Artist of the Year	Nominated
2013	> album title goes here <	Dance Recording of the Year	Nominated
2015	deadmau5	Artist of the Year	Nominated

Shorty Awards

In 2018, Zimmerman was nominated by the Shorty Awards for Twitch Streamer of the Year.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2018	deadmau5	Twitch Streamer of the Year	Nominated

World Music Awards

The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 under the high patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is based in Monte-Carlo. Awards are presented to the world's best-selling artists in the various categories and to the best-selling artists from each major territory. Sales figures are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry(IFPI). Nine awards are voted online by the public. The awards are gold-plated, each depicting an artist holding the world.

Zimmerman was nominated in the 2010 category the Worlds Best DJ.


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2010	deadmau5	Worlds Best DJ	Nominated

References

^ "Beatport Music Awards". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ "Beatport Music Awards 2010". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ Matthews Paul, James (21 September 2014). "The Annual DJ Awards To Kick Off at Pacha Ibiza This Monday". Hit The Floor. Hit the Floor On-Line Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
^ "Top 100 DJs 2007 – No 1: Armin van Buuren". DJ Magazine.
^ "Top 100 DJs 2007 – No 2: Tiësto". DJ Magazine.
^ "Poll 2023: Deadmau5". Retrieved 8 December 2023.
^ "International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) 2010 results announced". HousePlanet.DJ. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
^ "Juno Awards 2008". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008.

External links

[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[2] "Beatport Music Awards". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2015.

[3] "Beatport Music Awards 2010". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2015.

[4] Matthews Paul, James (21 September 2014). "The Annual DJ Awards To Kick Off at Pacha Ibiza This Monday". Hit The Floor. Hit the Floor On-Line Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2015.

[5] "Top 100 DJs 2007 – No 1: Armin van Buuren". DJ Magazine.

[6] "Top 100 DJs 2007 – No 2: Tiësto". DJ Magazine.

[7] "Poll 2023: Deadmau5". Retrieved 8 December 2023.

[8] "International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) 2010 results announced". HousePlanet.DJ. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.

[9] "Juno Awards 2008". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008.

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Discography Awards and nominations
Studio albums	Get Scraped Vexillology Random Album Title For Lack of a Better Name 4×4=12 Album Title Goes Here While(1<2) W:/2016Album/ Kx5
Compilation albums	Deadmau5 Circa 1998–2002 5 Years of Mau5 Stuff I Used to Do Where's the Drop?
Mix albums	At Play At Play Vol. 2
Extended plays	Mau5ville: Level 1 Mau5ville: Level 2 Mau5ville: Level 3
Singles	"Faxing Berlin" "Not Exactly" "Move for Me" "I Remember" "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" "Strobe" "Some Chords" "Animal Rights" "Sofi Needs a Ladder" "Raise Your Weapon" "Aural Psynapse" "Maths" "The Veldt" "Professional Griefers" "Channel 42" "Telemiscommunications" "Avaritia" "Seeya" "Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer" "Phantoms Can't Hang" "Snowcone" "Beneath with Me" "Let Go" "Legendary" "Bridged by a Lightwave" "When the Summer Dies"
Other songs	"A City in Florida" "4ware" "Monophobia"
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