Alanis Morissette is a Canadian-American rock singer-songwriter and musician from Ottawa, Ontario. Morissette has released five studio albums internationally through Maverick Records: Jagged Little Pill (1995), Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), Under Rug Swept (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), and Flavors of Entanglement (2008). Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, and Under Rug Swept debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and were among the top five on the Canadian Top 50 Album Chart. After leaving Maverick, Morissette released Havoc and Bright Lights (2012) independently via Collective Sounds and Such Pretty Forks in the Road (2020) through Epiphany Music and Thirty Tigers in North America, and by RCA and Sony Music in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Morissette has won and been nominated for numerous awards; she has won seven Grammy Awards and thirteen Juno Awards. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 38th Grammy Awards, and won Best New Artist at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards for her song, "Ironic"; additionally she was nominated for a Tony Award for the stage adaptation of Jagged Little Pill. Morissette has been nominated four times for Songwriter of the Year at the Juno Awards, winning two in 1996 and 1997. Her international debut album, Jagged Little Pill, became the second-best-selling album of the 1990s, with over fifteen million copies sold by 2000 in the United States. In October 2002, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jagged Little Pill number 31 on its Women in Rock – The 50 Essential Albums list, and in 2003, the album was ranked number 327 on the magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Jagged Little Pill was also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Overall, Morissette has received 26 awards from 56 nominations. She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2005.
ASCAP Pop Music Awards
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American Music Awards
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|Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
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|Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist
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| Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
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|Jagged Little Pill
|Favorite Pop/Rock Album
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Brit Awards
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| International Breakthrough Act
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| rowspan=2|International Female Solo Artist
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Billboard
Billboard Music Awards
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| Top Artist
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| Top Female Artist
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| Jagged Little Pill
| Top Billboard 200 Album
Billboard Women in Music
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| 2019
| Herself
| Icon Award
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Canada's Walk of Fame
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| 2005
| Herself
| Walk of Fame
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Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
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| 2022
| Herself
| Hall of Fame
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ECHO Awards
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| 1996
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| Best International Newcomer
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| 1997
| rowspan=4|Best International Female
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| 1999
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| 2000
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| 2003
GAFFA Awards
GAFFA Awards (Denmark)
! |- | 1995 | rowspan=3|Herself | Foreign Newcomer | | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4| |- | 1996 | Foreign Solo Act | |- | rowspan=2|1998 | Foreign Female Act |rowspan=2 |- | "Thank U" | Foreign Song |- | rowspan=2|2021 | Herself | Foreign Solo Act | | style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4| |- | Such Pretty Forks in the Road | Foreign Album | |}
Grammy Awards
!Ref. |- | rowspan=6|1996 | Herself | Best New Artist | | rowspan=14| |- | rowspan=2|Jagged Little Pill |Album of the Year | |- | Best Rock Album | |- | rowspan=3 |"You Oughta Know" | Song of the Year | |- | Best Female Rock Vocal Performance | |- | Best Rock Song | |- | rowspan=2|1997 | rowspan=2|"Ironic" | Record of the Year | |- | Best Music Video, Short Form | |- | 1998 | Jagged Little Pill, Live | Best Long Form Music Video | |- | rowspan=3|1999 | rowspan=3|"Uninvited" | Best Rock Song | |- | Best Female Rock Vocal Performance | |- | Best Song Written for Visual Media | |- | 2000 | "Thank U" | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | |- | 2001 | "So Pure" |Best Female Rock Vocal Performance |