The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard 's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s. It earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Miranda gained still wider recognition for writing the script, music, and lyrics for Hamilton, which has been acclaimed as a popular culture phenomenon since its 2015 Broadway premiere. The stage musical was adapted into a film released in June 2021. The production was a critical and commercial success, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008 in the musical In the Heights, in which he starred and wrote the music and lyrics. His awards include three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, an Annie Award, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize. He is known for creating the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005), and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Encanto, and Vivo (both 2021). Lin-Manuel Miranda ( / l ɪ n m æ n ˈ w ɛ l m ɪ ˈ r æ n d ə/ born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, and playwright.
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