A bronze sculpture of her sits on the courthouse lawn in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA. Sevierville is her hometown.
Among 120 celebrities and movie industry executives to receive invitations for membership into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on July 5, 2006. The Academy only allows for 30 new members each year, but in 2006 invited more people for membership in order to replace previous members who passed away or were retiring. Other celebrities receiving invitations include Jake Gyllenhaal, Werner Herzog, Felicity Huffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Terrence Howard, Heath Ledger, and Dakota Fanning.
Awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music in 2007. This lifetime achievement award is presented to the pioneers of country music who have made lasting contributions to the genre.
Became WIVK Radio's 2006 Americana Highway HEMI Award Hall of Fame Inductee during the 1st Annual HEMI Awards. Winners in all categories were announced September 24, 2006.
Co-wrote the song "I Didn't Hear The Thunder (But I Sure Did Feel The Rain)" with late country legend Tammy Wynette.
Covered Collective Soul's "Shine." In her version she turns it into a bluegrass song instead of an alternative rock ballard.
Created her song Nine to Five, whilst on set of the film of the same name by tapping her nails.
Distant cousin of screenwriter Richard O'Sullivan.
Dolly Parton was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
Dolly recorded the song, "I Will Always Love You," which she also wrote, in 1974. Thereafter, she found out that Elvis Presley was interested in singing the song as a duet with her; however, there was one catch: She would have to give him 50% of the publishing royalties, as was his custom with any duet he sang. Since she had already published the song herself, it made no sense to her to give up those royalties. Thus, despite her intense desire to sing with "The King of Rock & Roll," she had to decline the request...which turned out to be a multi-million dollar decision after the song became a humongous hit when Whitney Houston sang the song in the movie "The Bodyguard" (1992) and the single sold over 24 million records worldwide.
Dolly was offered $7 million to play the role of "Selena" in Supergirl (1984), but turned it down because she felt she couldn't play a witch. The role was eventually filled by Faye Dunaway.
Dolly, Steven Spielberg, Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and conductor Zubin Mehta were awarded Kennedy Center Honors in 2006.
Dolly's 2007 greatest hits compilation album "The Very Best of Dolly Parton", released in Europe as part of the promotional campaign for her 2007 European Tour, debut at #9 on the U.K. Pop Chart. This becomes the first album in Dolly's career to break the top 10 Pop Albums Chart in the U.K. The CD also debuted at #1 on the U.K. Country Albums Chart.
Dolly's classic song "Jolene" was covered by Sherrie Krenn (aka Sherrie Austin) on her third album "Followin' A Feelin". [2001]
During the 40th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards in 2009, Parton won for Best Musical Score for "9 To 5: The Musical" which played the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles during in the fall of 2008.
During the early 1990s, she filmed a series of sitcom pilots for CBS TV. Initially, in 1994, "Heavens To Betsy" was made, starring Dolly and Constance Shulman. Six episodes were completed. That sitcom was scrapped, and the story was re-vamped for the Movie of the Week, Unlikely Angel (1996) (TV). Following the television movie, she was to develop a sitcom where she would star as a "caterer to the stars". This program would have aired as "Mindin' My Own Business" (1996). However, the pilot was never broadcast.
Elected into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame [Songwriter Category] in 2008.
Elected into the Country Gospel Hall of Fame in 2010.
Elected into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.