by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992 and in 2000. Between 1993 and 2015, Stanley was nominated for 15 Grammy Awards in various categories. He became the first person to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in the third millennium. His work was featured in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in which he sings the Appalachian dirge "O Death". That song won him a 2002 Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance. His 2002 collaborative recording with Jim Lauderdale titled Lost in the Lonesome Pines won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards. The Virginia Press Association made him their Distinguished Virginian of the Year in 2004. The Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center opened in Clintwood, Virginia in 2004. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2006, the nation's highest honor for artistic excellence. The Virginia legislature designated him the Outstanding Virginian of 2008. He was awarded the Key to the City of Garner, North Carolina on November 15, 2008. He was named a Library of Congress Living Legend in April 2000. He was inducted into the Virginia Musical Museum & Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2013. He received a second honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University on May 19, 2014. He became an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 11, 2014. From the January 2, 2015 death of Little Jimmy Dickens until his own death, Stanley was the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry''. References External links Ralph Stanley Discography Ralph Stanley Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2013) 1927 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American musicians 20th-century Christian universalists 21st-century American musicians 21st-century Christian universalists American banjoists Bluegrass musicians from Virginia American Christian universalists American country singer-songwriters American country banjoists American male singer-songwriters Baptists from Virginia Deaths from skin cancer Deaths from cancer in Virginia Grammy Award winners Grand Ole Opry members National Heritage Fellowship winners People from Dickenson County, Virginia Rebel Records artists Singer-songwriters from Virginia United States National Medal of Arts recipients Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians 20th-century Baptists