Grammy Award records
The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He has won a total of 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.
List of awards and nominations received by Dolly Parton
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. Parton has received eight awards from forty-seven nominations. She had the most nominations of any female artist in the history of the prestigious awards, a record now held by Beyonce after the 56th Grammy Awards.
In 2011, she was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.