Record of the Year
The Days of Wine and Roses
Henry Mancini

Album of the Year
The Barbra Streisand Album
Barbra Streisand

Song of the Year
The Days of Wine and Roses
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - composers

Best New Artist of 1963
Swingle Singers 

Best Vocal Performance - Male
Wives and Lovers
Jack Jones

Best Vocal Performance - Female
The Barbra Streisand Album
Barbra Streisand 

Best Performance By a Vocal Group
Blowin' in the Wind
Peter, Paul and Mary

Best Performance By a Chorus
Bach's Greatest Hits
Swingle Singers

Best Rock and Roll Recording
Deep Purple
Nino Tempo and April Stevens

Best Rhythm and Blues Recording
Busted
Ray Charles

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist or Small Group
Conversations With Myself
Bill Evans

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group
Encore: Woody Herman, 1963
Woody Herman Band

Best Original Jazz Composition
Gravy Waltz
Steve Allen and Ray Brown - composers

Best Country and Western Recording
Detroit City
Bobby Bare

Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical)
Dominique - Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun)

Best Folk Recording
Blowin' in the Wind
Peter, Paul and Mary

Best Performance By an Orchestra for Dancing
This Time by Basie! Hits of the '50s and '60s
Count Basie

Best Performance By an Orchestra or
Instrumentalist With Orchestra
Not for Jazz or Dancing
Java - Al Hirt

Best Instrumental Arrangement
I Can't Stop Loving You
Quincy Jones - arranger

Best Background Arrangement
The Days of Wine and Roses
Henry Mancini - arranger

Best Instrumental Theme
More (Theme From Mondo Cane)
Norman Newell, Nino Oliviero and Riz Ortolani, composers

Best Original Score From a Motion Picture or Television Show
Tom Jones
John Addison - composer 

Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
She Loves Me
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick - composers

Album of the Year - Classical
Britten - War Requiem
Benjamin Britten - London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist
André Watts - pianist 

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf - Boston Symphony Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music
Evening of Elizabethan Music
Julian Bream Consort

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor
for Piano and Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein
Erich Leinsdorf - Boston Symphony Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo
(Without Orchestra)
The Sound of Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz

Best Opera Recording
Puccini - Madama Butterfly
Erich Leinsdorf - RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Solos: Price, Tucker and Elias

Best Classical Performance - Choral
Britten - War Requiem
David Willcocks directing Bach Choir
Edward Chapman directing Highgate School Choir
Benjamin Britten - London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
(With or Without Orchestra)
Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Leontyne Price

Best Classical Composition By Contemporary Composer
War Requiem
Benjamin Britten - composer

Best Comedy Performance
Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah
Allan Sherman

Best Documentary - Spoken Word or Drama Recording
(Other Than Comedy)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Best Recording for Children
Bernstein Conducts for Young People
Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic

Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical
The Barbra Streisand Album
John Berg - art director

Best Album Cover - Classical
Puccini - Madama Butterfly
Robert Jones - art director

Best Album Notes
The Ellington Era
Stanley Dance and Leonard Feather - annotators

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