First Americans in the Arts Award Outstanding Achievement in Music "From the Underworld of Red Boy" 1998
1996 Supervised soundtrack on "Phenomenon"
1995 Acted as music consultant on Scorcese's "Casino"
1987 First solo album, "Robbie Robertson", released by Geffen Records
1987 Music director and technical consultant on Taylor Hackford's film, "Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll"
1986 Composed score for Scorsese's "The Color of Money"
1983 Composed score for Scorsese's "The King of Comedy"
1980 Starred in and composed part of the score for Robert Kaylor's film "Carny"
1980 Served as music arranger on Scorcese's "Raging Bull"
1976 Produced Neil Diamond's album, "Beautiful Noise"
1976 Farewell concert in November at Winterland to celebrate official breakup of The Band (recorded in Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary "The Last Waltz")
1969 First concert as The Band at San Francisco's Winterland
1968 Group changed its name to The Band, records first album, "Music from Big Pink", in basement studio of their West Saugerties, NY, home
1966 After Dylan's motorcycle accident, group settled in Woodstock, NY and worked with him on informal recording sessions, eventually (1975) released as "The Basement Tapes"
1965 Bob Dylan hired them as his electrified backup band at his Forest Hills concert, August 28
1964 After hearing the band, singer John Hammond Jr. asked them to perform and record with him in New York, Chicago, and Texas
1963 Robertson and Hawkins' other group members (Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson) left to form own group
1963 - 1965 Changed group name from Levon and the Hawks to the Crackers to the Canadian Squires
1958 Recruited to play guitar for Ronnie Hawkins at age 15
Played on Dylan's world tour
