• Record of the Year
• "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
  • David Foster, producer; Tom Elmhirst & Mark Rankin, engineers/mixers
  • Walter Afanasieff (producer) for "A Whole New World"
  • Joe Nicolo & Danny Kortchmar (producer) for "The River of Dreams"
  • Sting & Hugh Padgham (producer) for "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You"
  • Neil Young (producer) for "Harvest Moon"
• Album of the Year
• The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston
  • Houston, Babyface, BeBe Winans, David Cole, David Foster, L.A. Reid, Narada Michael Walden, Robert Clivilles, Clive Davis, producer
  • R.E.M & Scott Litt (producers) for Automatic for the People
  • Walter Becker (producer) & Donald Fagen (artist) for Kamakiriad
  • Billy Joel & Danny Kortchmar, Joe Nicolo (producers) for River of Dreams
  • Sting and Hugh Padgham (producers) for Ten Summoner's Tales

• Song of the Year
• Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) for "A Whole New World" performed by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
  • Billy Joel for "The River of Dreams" performed by Billy Joel
  • Jim Steinman for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" performed by Meat Loaf
  • Sting for "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" performed by Sting
  • Neil Young for "Harvest Moon" performed by Neil Young
• Best New Artist
  • Toni Braxton
  • Belly
  • Blind Melon
  • Digable Planets
  • SWV

PopEdit

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
  • Whitney Houston for "I Will Always Love You"
  • Mariah Carey — "Dreamlover"
  • Shawn Colvin — "I Don't Know Why"
  • k.d. lang — "Miss Chatelaine"
  • Tina Turner — "I Don't Wanna Fight"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
  • Sting for "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You"
  • "The Crying Game" – Boy George
  • "The River of Dreams" – Billy Joel
  • "Don't Take Away My Heaven" – Aaron Neville
  • "Have I Told You Lately" – Rod Stewart
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle for "A Whole New World"
  • "When I Fall in Love" — Celine Dion & Clive Griffin
  • "Man on the Moon" — R.E.M.
  • "The Music of the Night" — Barbra Streisand & Michael Crawford
  • "Love Is" — Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  • Branford Marsalis & Bruce Hornsby for "Barcelona Mona"

AlternativeEdit

• Best Alternative Music Performance
  • U2 for Zooropa

BluesEdit

• Best Traditional Blues Album
  • B.B. King for Blues Summit
• Best Contemporary Blues Album
  • Buddy Guy for Feels Like Rain

Children'sEdit

• Best Musical Album for Children
  • Alan Menken, Tim Rice (producers) & various artists for Aladdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Best Spoken Word Album for Children
  • Deborah Raffin, Michael Viner (producers) & Audrey Hepburn for Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales

ComedyEdit

• From 1994 through 2003, see "Best Spoken Comedy Album" under the "Spoken" field, below.

ClassicalEdit

• Best Orchestral Performance
  • Pierre Boulez (conductor)& the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: The Wooden Prince
• Best Classical Vocal Performance
  • Arleen Auger for The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)
• Best Opera Recording
  • Steven Paul (producer), John Nelson (conductor), John Aler, Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance, Mark S. Doss, Marilyn Horne, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Samuel Ramey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus & the English Chamber Orchestra for Handel: Semele
• Best Performance of a Choral Work
  • Pierre Boulez (conductor), Margaret Hillis (choir director) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Bartók: Cantata Profana
• Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra)
  • James Levine (conductor), Anne-Sophie Mutter & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berg: Violin Concerto/Rihm: Time Chant
• Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra)
  • John Browning for Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • The Emerson String Quartet for Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/ Barber: String Quartet Op.11 (American Originals)
• Best Contemporary Composition
  • Elliott Carter (composer), Oliver Knussen (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Violin Concerto^[2]
• Best Classical Album
  • Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor), John Aler, John Tomlinson & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana

Composing and arrangingEdit

• Best Instrumental Composition
  • Kenny G (composer) for "Forever in Love"
• Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
  • Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) for "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" performed by Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson
• Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
  • Alan Menken (composer) for Aladdin performed by various artists
• Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
  • Dave Grusin (arranger) for "Mood Indigo"
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
  • David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock (arrangers) for "When I Fall in Love" performed by Céline Dion & Clive Griffin

CountryEdit

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter for "Passionate Kisses"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  • Dwight Yoakam for "Ain't That Lonely Yet"
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Brooks & Dunn for "Hard Workin' Man"
• Best Country Vocal Collaboration
  • Linda Davis & Reba McEntire for "Does He Love You"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
  • Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble, Marty Stuart, Reuben "Lucky Oceans" Gosfield & Vince Gill for "Red Wing"
• Best Country Song
  • Lucinda Williams (songwriter) for "Passionate Kisses" performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Best Bluegrass Album
  • The Nashville Bluegrass Band for Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go

FolkEdit

• Best Traditional Folk Album
  • The Chieftains for The Celtic Harp: A Tribute To Edward Bunting
• Best Contemporary Folk Album
  • Nanci Griffith for Other Voices/Other Rooms

GospelEdit

• Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • Steven Curtis Chapman for The Live Adventure
• Best Rock Gospel Album
  • dc Talk for Free at Last
• Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
  • Shirley Caesar for Stand Still
• Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
  • The Winans for All Out
• Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album
  • Kathy Mattea for Good News
• Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
  • Carol Cymbala (choir director) for Live...We Come Rejoicing performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

HistoricalEdit

• Best Historical Album
  • Michael Lang & Phil Schaap (producers) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959

JazzEdit

• Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
  • Joe Henderson for "Miles Ahead"
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group
  • Joe Henderson for So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)
• Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
  • Miles Davis & Quincy Jones for Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance
  • Natalie Cole for Take a Look
• Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (Instrumental)
  • Pat Metheny Group for The Road to You

LatinEdit

• Best Latin Pop Album
  • Luis Miguel for Aries
• Best Tropical Latin Album
  • Gloria Estefan for Mi Tierra
• Best Mexican-American Album
  • Selena for Live!

Musical showEdit

• Best Musical Show Album
  • George Martin (producer), Pete Townshend (composer & lyricist) & the original cast for The Who's Tommy

Music videoEdit

• Best Music Video, Short Form
  • Prudence Fenton (video producer), Stephen Johnson (video director) & Peter Gabriel for "Steam"
• Best Music Video, Long Form
  • Julie Fong (video producer), Doug Nichol (video director) & Sting for Ten Summoner's Tales

New AgeEdit

• Best New Age Album
  • Paul Winter Consort for Spanish Angel

Packaging and notesEdit

• Best Recording Package
  • David Lau (art director) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 performed by Billie Holiday
• Best Album Notes
  • Buck Clayton, Joel E. Siegel & Phil Schaap (notes writers) for The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 performed by Billie Holiday

PolkaEdit

• Best Polka Album
  • Walter Ostanek for Accordionally Yours performed by Walter Ostanek & His Band

Production and engineeringEdit

• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
  • Hugh Padgham (engineer) for Ten Summoner's Tales performed by Sting

• Best Engineered Album, Classical
  • Rainer Maillard (engineer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana

• Producer of the Year
  • David Foster

• Classical Producer of the Year
  • Judith Sherman

R&BEdit

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
  • Toni Braxton for "Another Sad Love Song"
  • Aretha Franklin – "Someday We'll All Be Free"
  • Whitney Houston – "I'm Every Woman"
  • Janet Jackson – "That's The Way Love Goes"
  • Patti LaBelle – "All Right Now"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
  • Ray Charles for "A Song for You"
  • "Can We Talk" – Tevin Campbell
  • "For the Cool in You" – Babyface
  • "How Deep Is Your Love" – Luther Vandross
  • "Voodoo" – Teddy Pendergrass
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Sade for "No Ordinary Love"
  • Boyz II Men "Let It Snow"
  • Earth, Wind & Fire "Sunday Morning"
  • En Vogue "Give It Up, Turn It Loose"
  • Tony! Toni! Toné! "Anniversary"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
  • Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (songwriters) for "That's the Way Love Goes" performed by Janet Jackson
  • Babyface & Daryl Simmons (songwriters) for "Can We Talk" (Tevin Campbell)
  • Luther Vandross & Marcus Miller (songwriters) for "Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)" (Luther Vandross)
  • Luther Vandross & Reed Vertelney (songwriters) for "Heaven Knows" (Luther Vandross)
  • Raphael Wiggins & Carl Wheeler (songwriters) for "Anniversary" (Tony! Toni! Toné!)

RapEdit

• Best Rap Solo Performance
  • Dr. Dre for "Let Me Ride"
  • Paperboy – "Ditty"
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot – "Just Da Pimpin' In Me"
  • MC Lyte – "Ruffneck"
  • LL Cool J – "Stand by Your Man"
• Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
  • Digable Planets for "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
  • Arrested Development — "Revolution"
  • Cypress Hill — "Insane in the Brain"
  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg — "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang"
  • Naughty by Nature — "Hip Hop Hooray"

ReggaeEdit

• Best Reggae Album
  • Inner Circle for Bad Boys

RockEdit

• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo
  • Meat Loaf for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
  • Bob Dylan – "All Along the Watchtower"
  • Peter Gabriel – "Steam"
  • Lenny Kravitz – "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
  • Sting – "Demolition Man"
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Aerosmith for "Livin' on the Edge"
  • Blind Melon – "No Rain"
  • Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and George Harrison– "My Back Pages"
  • Soul Asylum – "Runaway Train"
  • Spin Doctors – "Two Princes"
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance
  • Steve Vai for "Sofa"
  • Aerosmith – "Boogie Man"
  • Jeff Beck and Jed Leiber – "Hi-Heel Sneakers"
  • Joe Satriani – "Speed of Light"
  • Tangerine Dream – "Purple Haze
• Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal
  • Stone Temple Pilots for "Plush"
  • AC/DC – "Highway to Hell" (live)
  • Living Colour – "Leave It Alone"
  • Robert Plant – "Calling to You"
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – "Cherub Rock"
• Best Metal Performance with Vocal
  • Ozzy Osbourne for "I Don't Want to Change the World"
  • Iron Maiden – "Fear of the Dark" (live)
  • Megadeth – "Angry Again"
  • Suicidal Tendencies – "Institutionalized"
  • White Zombie – "Thunder Kiss '65"
• Best Rock Song
  • David Pirner (songwriter) for "Runaway Train" performed by Soul Asylum

SpokenEdit

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
  • Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning
• Best Spoken Comedy Album
  • George Carlin for Jammin' in New York

Traditional popEdit

• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
  • Tony Bennett for Steppin' Out

WorldEdit

• Best World Music Album
  • V. M. Bhatt & Ry Cooder for A Meeting by the River

Grammy Legend AwardEdit

• Curtis Mayfield
• Frank Sinatra^[3]

MusiCares Person of the YearEdit

• Gloria Estefan

• Grammy Award Winners