2000 In May, Dylan was awarded the prestigious 'Polar Prize from the Royal Swedish
Academy of Music'. He also wrote and performed the song 'Things Have Changed' for
the film 'Wonder Boys' (2000), directed by Curtis Hanson, which won him a Golden
Globe award and an Academy Award the following year.
2003 With producer/director Larry Charles, Dylan co-wrote and starred in the film
'Masked and Anonymous', which was released in 2003.
2004 Dylan received an honorary doctorate of music from St Andrews University, Scotland
on 23rd June 2004. October saw the publication of the first volume of his three part
autobiography, 'Chronicles: Volume One', which spent nineteen weeks on 'The New York
Times' best-seller list.
2005 The film documentary, 'No Direction Home', directed by Martin Scorsese, was
shown on BBC 2 in Britain and PBS in America on 26th September 2005. Concentrating
on the years between Dylan's arrival in New York City in 1961 and his motorcycle
crash in 1966, the film was an international success both with critics and fans.
2006 Dylan's forty-fourth album, 'Modern Times', released in 2006, gave him his first
American number one album in thirty years and won a Grammy Award in 2007 for best
contemporary folk album. In spring, Dylan began his DJ career hosting the weekly
'Theme Time Radio Hour' show for XM Satellite Radio in America and BBC Radio 2 in
Britain.
2007 Released in August, the award-winning film, 'I'm Not There', written and directed
by Todd Haynes, was inspired by the life and music of Dylan. An exhibition entitled
'The Drawn Blank Series', which contained re-worked versions of Dylan's sketches
and drawings, opened in the autumn at the Kunstsammlungen Museum, in Chemnitz, Germany.
2008 In April, Dylan received a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize 'for his profound
impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary
poetic power'. A major exhibition of selected works from 'The Drawn Blank Series',
together with new re-worked versions, premiered at Halcyon Gallery in London in the
summer, receiving huge critical acclaim. A selection of limited edition graphics
from the exhibition were released in a select number of UK galleries with many editions
selling out immediately upon release. 2009 On 15th April, Dylan aired his 100th episode
in the US of his ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’. On 28th April Dylan released his 45th album
‘Together Through Life’ which débuted at number one in the UK album charts, 38 years
and five months after his last chart-topper ‘New Morning’ in 1970. Dylan now holds
the record for the longest gap between solo number one albums in the UK. The album
also went to number one in the US, as well as several other European countries.
