| Record of the Year |
"The Days of Wine and Roses", Henry Mancini |
| Album of the Year |
The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia) |
| 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 (Atco) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording |
"Busted", Ray Charles (ABC/Paramount) |
| 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 (RCA) |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical) |
"Dominique", Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun) (Philips) |
| Best Folk Recording |
"Blowin' in the Wind", Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.) |
| 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 (MGM) |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Britten, War Requiem, Benjamin Britten conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist |
André Watts, pianist |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra |
Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting 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 conducting 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 conducting RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Tucker and Elias (RCA) |
| Best Classical Performance, Choral |
Britten, War Requiem, David Willcocks directing Bach Choir; Edward Chapman directing Highgate School Choir; Benjamin Britten conducting 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 (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Bernstein Conducts for Young People, Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover, Other Than Classical |
The Barbra Streisand Album, John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover, Classical |
Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Robert Jones, art director (RCA) |
| Best Album Notes |
The Ellington Era, Stanley Dance and Leonard Feather, annotators (Columbia) |
