In 2017, Sawhney received the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award. Having turned down an OBE in 2007, claiming it was associated with "a colonial past", Sawhney accepted a higher-grade CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours. He claimed that he accepted it for his father, who he said had died regretting that Sawhney had rejected the OBE. Since 2014, the publishing interest of Nitin Sawhney's catalog has been represented by Reservoir Media Management. Sawhney has released 10 studio albums. He has received 17 major national awards for his album work and is a recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award. In 1999 Sawhney released his fourth breakthrough Gold-selling album, "Beyond Skin", on London's Outcaste Records, which took a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination and won Sawhney the coveted South Bank Show Award. After a subsequent signing to Richard Branson’s V2 Records, Sawhney released the Silver-certified "Prophesy" in 2001, winning a MOBO Award as well as a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. Sawhney’s seventh album, "Philtre", was released in May 2005, taking yet another BBC Radio 3 Award and in 2008, his eighth album, "London Undersound", released on Cooking Vinyl, featured artwork by Antony Gormley and performances from Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Imogen Heap and Natty, amongst many others. Sawhney’s 2011 studio work, "Last Days of Meaning", previewed at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2011, centres on a from actor, John Hurt, and follows the metaphorical, Dickensian journey of a lonely and intransigent man. His 2013 box-set release "One Zero" was recorded live-to-vinyl as a celebration of ten albums releases. Nitin’s tenth studio album, "Dystopian Dream", was released in November 2015. He produced Anoushka Shankar’s Grammy nominated album "Traces of You" featuring Norah Jones, and has recently produced the artist Nicki Wells’ debut album and the tenth album of concert pianist Helene Grimaud, "Water". To date, Sawhney has scored over fifty films as well as many international TV programmes, ads and cinema trailers. Signed to LA based agency, First Artist Management, Sawhney has written music for a wide variety of contexts, from dark, high-tension drama to light hearted animatronics.