Record of the Year
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Roberta Flack

Album of the Year
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder

Song of the Year
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox - songwriters

Best New Artist of the Year
Bette Midler

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Stevie Wonder

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Roberta Flack

Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus
Neither One of Us” (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
Gladys Knight and the Pips

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)
Eumir Deodato

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Superstition
Stevie Wonder - songwriter 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Male
Superstition
Stevie Wonder 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Master of Eyes
Aretha Franklin

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a 
Duo, Group or Chorus
Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight and the Pips 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Hang on Sloopy
Ramsey Lewis 

Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist
God Is in the House
Art Tatum 

Best Jazz Performance By a Group
Supersax Plays Bird
Supersax 

Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band
Giant Steps
Woody Herman 

Best Country Song
Behind Closed Doors
Kenny O'Dell - songwriter

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
Behind Closed Doors
Charlie Rich 

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Let Me Be There
Olivia Newton-John 

Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group
From the Bottle to the Bottom
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Dueling Banjos
Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell 

Best Gospel Performance
Release Me (From My Sin)
Blackwood Brothers 

Best Soul Gospel Performance
Loves Me Like a Rock
Dixie Hummingbirds 

Best Inspirational Performance
Let's Just Praise the Lord
Bill Gaither Trio 

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
Then and Now
Doc Watson

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Summer in the City
Quincy Jones - arranger 

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist
Live and Let Die
George Martin - arranger 

Best Instrumental Composition
Last Tango in Paris
Gato Barbiera - composer 

Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album
A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim - composer 

Best Original Score Written for a 
Motion Picture or a Television Special
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Neil Diamond - composer 

Album of the Year - Classical
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Pierre Boulez - New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Pierre Boulez - New York Philharmonic Orchestra 

Best Chamber Music Performance
Joplin - The Red Back Book
Gunther Schuller and the New England Conservatory
Ragtime Ensemble

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist
(With Orchestra)
Beethoven - Concerti (5) for Piano and Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony 

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist
(Without Orchestra)
Scriabin - Horowitz Plays Scriabin
Vladimir Horowitz 

Best Opera Recording
Bizet - Carmen
Leonard Bernstein - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and
Manhattan Opera Chorus
Solos: Horne, McCracken, Maliponte and Krause

Best Choral Performance - Classical
Walton - Belshazzar's Feast
André Previn - London Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Oldham - London Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Puccini - Heroines (La Bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescaut)
Leontyne Price
Downes - New Philharmonia 

Best Comedy Recording
Los Cochinos
Cheech and Chong

Best Spoken Word Recording
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Harris

Best Recording for Children
Sesame Street Live
Sesame Street cast

Best Album Package
Tommy
Wilkes and Braun, Inc. - art director

Best Album Notes
God Is in the House
Dan Morgenstern - annotator

Best Album Notes - Classical
Hindemith - Sonatas for Piano (Complete)
Glenn Gould - annotator

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