AWARDS

History
Awards and recognition
Metallica has won seven Grammy Awards:
• 1990: Best Metal Performance - "One"
• 1991: Best Metal Performance - "Stone Cold Crazy"
• 1992: Best Metal Performance With Vocal - Metallica
• 1999: Best Metal Performance - "Better Than You"
• 2000: Best Hard Rock Performance - "Whiskey in the Jar"
• 2001: Best Rock Instrumental Performance - "The Call of Ktulu" with Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Symphony
• 2004: Best Metal Performance - "St. Anger"
MTV Video Music Awards:
• 1992: Best Metal Video - "Enter Sandman"
• 1996: Best Metal Video - "Until it Sleeps"
American Music Awards:
• 1996: Favorite Artist: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock: Metallica - Load
• 1996: Favorite Metal/Hard Rock Song - "Until it Sleeps"
Bammies:
• 1996: Outstanding Drummer: Lars Ulrich
• 1997: Outstanding Hard Rock Album: ReLoad
Billboard Music Awards:
• 1997: Billboard Rock and Roll Artist of the Year: Metallica (RIAA Diamond Award)
• 1999: Catalog Artist of the Year: Metallica
• 1999: Catalog Album of the Year: Metallica (The Black Album)
Kerrang! awards:
• 2003: Hall of Fame
Governor's Award:
• 2004: Governor's Award - Metallica
Metallica were ranked by MTV the 3rd "Greatest Heavy Metal Band in History", and is listed at #5 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". The band was ranked at #1 on VH1's "20 Greatest Metal Bands," in 2006, in Kerrang! magazine, Metallica achieved the place of the third most important band in the past twenty-five years, also in Kerrang! during 2006 three of Metallica's albums appeared in the "100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever" the albums were Ride the Lightning (#80), Metallica (album) (#15) and Master of Puppets (#2) they will be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.