Record of the Year
Beat It
Michael Jackson

Album of the Year
Thriller
Michael Jackson

Song of the Year
Every Breath You Take
Sting - songwriter 

Best New Artist
Culture Club 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
Thriller
Michael Jackson 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
Flashdance: What a Feeling
Irene Cara 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Every Breath You Take
Police 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Being With You
George Benson 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Male
Beat It
Michael Jackson 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Female
Love Is a Battlefield
Pat Benatar 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Synchronicity
Police 

Best New Rhythm and Blues Song
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - songwriter 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
Ain't Nobody
Rufus and Chaka Khan 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Rockit
Herbie Hancock 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male
Top Drawer
Mel Tormé 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Female
The Best Is Yet to Come
Ella Fitzgerald 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Duo or Group
Why Not!
Manhattan Transfer 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
Think of One
Wynton Marsalis 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Group
At the Vanguard
Phil Woods Quartet 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Big Band
All in Good Time
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass 

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
Travels
Pat Metheny Group 

Best New Country Song
Stranger in My House
Mike Reid - songwriter 

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
I.O.U.
Lee Greenwood 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
A Little Good News
Anne Murray 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
The Closer You Get
Alabama 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Fireball
New South (Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Tony Rice,
J.D. Crowe and Todd Phillips) 

Best Gospel Performance Male
Walls of Glass
Russ Taff 

Best Gospel Performance Female
Ageless Medley
Amy Grant 

Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group
More Than Wonderful
Sandi Patti and Larnelle Harris 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Male
I'll Rise Again
Al Green 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Female
We Sing Praises
Sandra Crouch 

Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group
I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today
Bobby Jones with Barbara Mandrell

Best Latin Pop Performance
Me Enamore
José Feliciano 

Best Tropical Latin Performance On Broadway
Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble 

Best Inspirational Performance
He's a Rebel
Donna Summer 

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Blues 'n Jazz
B.B. King

Best Mexican-American Performance
Anselma
Los Lobos 

Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
I'm Here
Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Summer Sketches '82
Dave Grusin - arranger 

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
What's New
Nelson Riddle - arranger 

Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
Be Bop Medley
Arif Mardin and Chaka Khan - arrangers 

Best Instrumental Composition
Love Theme From Flashdance
Giorgio Moroder - composer 

Best Cast Show Album
Cats (Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Andrew Lloyd Webber - producer

Best Album of Original Score Written for a
Motion Picture or a Television Special
Flashdance
Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara, Shandi
Sinnamon, Ronald Magness, Douglas Cotler, Richard
Gilbert, Michael Boddicker, Jerry Hey, Phil Ramone,
Michael Sembello, Kim Carnes, Duane Hitchings, Craig
Krampf and Dennis Matkosky - songwriters

Best Classical Album
Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D Major
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D Major
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Chamber Music Performance
Brahms - Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor
Op. 38 and Sonata in F Major
Op. 99
Mstislav Rostropovich and Rudolf Serkin

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Haydn - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-Flat Major
L. Mozart - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in D Major
Hummel - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-Flat Major
Wynton Marsalis
Raymond Leppard - National Philharmonic Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Beethoven - Sonata for Piano No. 12 in A-Flat Major
Op. 26 and No. 13 in E-Flat Major
Op. 27, No. 1
Glenn Gould 

Best Opera Recording
Mozart - Le Nozzi de Figaro
Sir Georg Solti - London Philharmonic
Solos: Kanawa, Popp, Ramey, Allen, Moll and von Stade
Verdi - La Traviata (Original Soundtrack)
James Levine - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Solos: Stratas, Domingo and MacNeil

Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)
Haydn - The Creation
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis - Chicago Symphony Chorus 

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Leontyne Price and Marilyn Horne in Concert at The Met
Leontyne Price and Marilyn Horne
James Levine - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Best Comedy Recording
Eddie Murphy - Comedian
Eddie Murphy

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Copland - A Lincoln Portrait - William Warfield

Best Recording for Children
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Michael Jackson - narration and vocals

Best Album Package
Speaking in Tongues
Robert Rauschenberg - art director

Best Album Notes
The 'Interplay' Sessions
Orrin Keepnews - annotator

Best Historical Album
The Greatest Recordings of Arturo
Toscanini Symphonies Vol. I
Arturo Toscanini

Best Video Short Form
Girls on Film/Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran 

Producers of the Year (Non-Classical)
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson 

Classical Producers of the Year
Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz

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