Record of the Year
Sailing
Christopher Cross 

Album of the Year
Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross

Song of the Year
Sailing
Christopher Cross - songwriter 

Best New Artist
Christopher Cross 

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male
This Is It
Kenny Loggins 

Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female
The Rose
Bette Midler 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Guilty
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
One on One
Bob James and Earl Klugh 

Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male
Glass Houses
Billy Joel 

Best Rock Vocal Performance - Female
Crimes of Passion
Pat Benatar 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Against the Wind
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Reggatta de Blanc
Police 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Never Knew Love Like This Before
Reggie Lucas and James Mtume - songwriters 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance - Male
Give Me the Night
George Benson 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance - Female
Never Knew Love Like This Before
Stephanie Mills 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
Shining Star
Manhattans 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Off Broadway
George Benson 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male
Moody's Mood
George Benson 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female
A Perfect Match/Ella and Basie
Ella Fitzgerald 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist
I Will Say Goodbye
Bill Evans 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group
We Will Meet Again
Bill Evans 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band
On the Road
Count Basie and Orchestra 

Best Jazz Fusion Performance - Vocal or Instrumental
Birdland
Manhattan Transfer 

Best Country Song
On the Road Again
Willie Nelson - songwriter 

Best Country Vocal Performance - Male
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones 

Best Country Vocal Performance - Female
Could I Have This Dance
Anne Murray 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
That Lovin' You Feelin' Again
Roy Orbison and Emmylou Harris 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown
Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band 

Best Gospel Performance - Contemporary or Inspirational
The Lord's Prayer
Reba Rambo, Dony McGuire, B.J. Thomas, Andrae Crouch,
the Archers, Walter and Tramiane Hawkins and
Cynthia Clawson 

Best Gospel Performance - Traditional
We Come to Worship
Blackwood Brothers 

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Contemporary
Rejoice
Shirley Caesar 

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Traditional
Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument
James Cleveland and the Charles Fold Singers 

Best Latin Recording
La Onda Va Bien
Cal Tjader

Best Inspirational Performance
With My Song I Will Praise Him
Debby Boone 

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
Rare Blues
Dr. Isaiah Ross, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big Joe Williams,
Son House, Rev. Robin Wilkins, Little Brother Montgomery
and Sunnyland Slim

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Dinorah, Dinorah
Quincy Jones and Jerry Hey - arrangers 

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Sailing
Michael Omatian and Christopher Cross - arrangers

Best Arrangement for Voices
Birdland
Janis Siegel - arranger 

Best Instrumental Composition
The Empire Strikes Back
John Williams - composer

Best Cast Show Album
Evita - Premier American Recording
Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer
Tim Rice - lyricist

Best Album of Original Score Written for a
Motion Picture or a Television Special
The Empire Strikes Back
John Williams - composer

Best Classical Album
Berg - Lulu (Complete Version)
Pierre Boulez - Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris
Solos: Stratas, Minton, Mazura and Blankenheim

Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A Major
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Chamber Music Performance
Music for Two Violins
(Moszkowski - Suite for Two Violins
Shostakovich - Duets
Prokofiev - Sonata for Two Violins)
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Berg - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Stravinsky
Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra
Itzhak Perlman
Seiji Ozawa - Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Brahms - Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello
(Double Concerto)
Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich
Bernard Haitink - Concertgebouw Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
The Spanish Album
Itzhak Perlman 

Best Opera Recording
Berg - Lulu (Complete Version)
Pierre Boulez - Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris
Solos: Stratas, Minton, Mazura and Blankenheim

Best Choral Performance - Classical (Other Than Opera)
Mozart - Requiem
Carlo Maria Giulini and Norbert Balatsch
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Prima Donna - Volume 5 Great Soprano Arias
From Handel to Britten
Leontyne Price
Henry Lewis - Philharmonia Orchestra 

Best Comedy Recording
No Respect
Rodney Dangerfield

Best Spoken Word - Documentary or Drama Recording
Gertrude Stein - Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein, Pat Carroll

Best Recording for Children
In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record
Doobie Brothers, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bette
Midler, Muppets, Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Wendy
Waldman, Libby Titus and Dr. John, Livingston Taylor,
George Benson and Pauline Wilson, Lucy Simon, Kate
Taylor and the Simon/Taylor Family

Best Album Package
Against the Wind
Roy Kohara - art director

Best Album Notes
Trilogy: Past, Present and Future
David McClintick - annotator

Best Historical Reissue Album
Segovia - The EMI Recordings 1927–39

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
Phil Ramone 

Classical Producer of the Year
Robert Woods

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