| Record of the Year |
"The Girl From Ipanema", Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto |
| Album of the Year |
Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (Verve) |
| Song of the Year |
"Hello, Dolly!", Jerry Herman, songwriter |
Best New Artist of 1964
 The Beatles
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The Beatles |
| Most Promising New Recording Artist |
Marilyn Horne |
| Best Vocal Performance, Male |
"Hello, Dolly!", Louis Armstrong |
| Best Vocal Performance, Female |
"People", Barbra Streisand |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group |
A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles |
| Best Performance By a Chorus |
The Swingle Singers Going Baroque, Swingle Singers |
| Best Rock and Roll Recording |
"Downtown", Petula Clark (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording |
"How Glad I Am", Nancy Wilson (Capitol) |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group |
Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group |
Guitar From Ipanema, Laurindo Almeida |
| Best Original Jazz Composition |
"The Cat", Lalo Schifrin, composer |
| Best Country and Western Single |
"Dang Me", Roger Miller |
| Best Country and Western Album |
Dang Me/Chug-a-Lug, Roger Miller (Smash) |
| Best Country and Western Song |
"Dang Me", Roger Miller, songwriter |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male |
"Dang Me", Roger Miller |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female |
"Here Comes My Baby", Dottie West |
| Best New Country and Western Artist of 1964 |
Roger Miller |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical) |
Great Gospel Songs, Tennessee Ernie Ford (Capitol) |
| Best Folk Recording |
We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Gale Garnett (RCA) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"The Pink Panther Theme", Henry Mancini, arranger |
| Best Accompaniment Arrangement for Vocalist(s) or Instrumentalist(s) |
"People", Peter Matz, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition (Other Than Jazz) |
"The Pink Panther Theme", Henry Mancini, composer |
| Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz |
"The Pink Panther Theme", Henry Mancini |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album |
Funny Girl, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, composers (Capitol) |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show |
Mary Poppins, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, composers |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Bernstein, Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish”), Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra |
Mahler, Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor; Berg, "Wozzeck” Excerpts, Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony |
| Best Chamber Performance, Instrumental |
Beethoven, Trio No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky; Jacob Lateiner, pianist |
| Best Chamber Music Performance, Vocal |
It Was a Lover and His Lass, Morley, Byrd and others; Noah Greenberg conducting New York Pro Musica |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
Prokofiev, Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin, Isaac Stern; Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) |
Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin (Beethoven, Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique; ” Debussy, Preludes; Chopin, Etudes and Scherzos 1–4), Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording |
Bizet, Carmen, Herbert von Karajan conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Price, Corelli, Merrill and Freni (RCA) |
| Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) |
Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (With or Without Orchestra) |
Berlioz, Nuits d'Ete Falla: El Amor Brujo, Leontyne Price; Fritz Reiner conducting Chicago Symphony |
| Best Classical Composition By a Contemporary Composer |
Samuel Barber, Concerto |
| Best Comedy Performance |
I Started Out as a Child, Bill Cosby |
| Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (Other Than Comedy) |
BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy, That Was the Week That Was, cast (Decca) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (Buena Vista) |
| Best Album Cover |
People, Robert Cato, art director; Don Bronstein, photographer (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover, Classical |
Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals; Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Robert Jones, art director; Jan Balet, graphic artist (RCA) |
| Best Album Notes |
Mexico (Legacy Collection), Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals, annotators (Columbia) |
