Grace Jones
Year Awards Work Category Result
1983 Billboard Music Awards Herself Top Disco Artist - Female Nominated
1984 Grammy Awards A One Man Show Best Video Album Nominated
1985 Bravo Otto Awards Herself Best Female Actress ( Silver ) Won
1985 Saturn Awards Conan the Destroyer Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1986 Saturn Awards A View to a Kill Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1986 MTV Video Music Awards Slave to the Rhythm Best Female Video Nominated
1987 Saturn Awards Vamp Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1988 Razzie Awards Siesta Worst Supporting Actress Nominated
2008 Q Awards Herself Q Icon Won
2009 Helpmann Awards Hurricane Tour Best International Contemporary Music Concert Nominated
2014 Rober Awards Music Poll Nightclubbing Best Reissue Nominated
2016 NME Awards I Never Write My Memoirs Best Book Nominated
2017 The Voice of a Woman Awards Herself Lifetime Achievement Award Won
2017 Bahamas International Film Festival Herself Career Achievement Award Won
Awards and nominations
Grace Beverly Jones OJ (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American model, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born in Jamaica, she moved when she was 13, along with her siblings, to live with her parents in Syracuse, New York. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features. Beginning in 1977, Jones embarked on a music career, securing a record deal with Island Records and initially becoming a star of New York City's Studio 54-centered disco scene. In the early 1980s, she moved toward a new wave style that drew on reggae, funk, post-punk and pop music, frequently collaborating with both the graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude and the musical duo Sly & Robbie. Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981), and Slave to the Rhythm (1985). She scored Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with Pull Up to the Bumper, I've Seen That Face Before, Private Life, and Slave to the Rhythm. In 1982, she released the music video collection A One Man Show, directed by Goude. Jones appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1984, she made her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill as May Day. In 1986, she played a vampire in Vamp, and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 Eddie Murphy film Boomerang.