| Record of the Year |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon and Garfunkel |
| Album of the Year |
Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) |
| Song of the Year |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water", Paul Simon, songwriter |
| Best New Artist of the Year |
Carpenters |
| Best Contemporary Song |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water", Paul Simon, songwriter |
| Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male |
"Everything Is Beautiful", Ray Stevens |
| Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female |
I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Dionne Warwick |
| Best Contemporary Vocal Performance By a Group |
"Close to You", Carpenters |
| Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance |
Theme From Z and Other Film Music, Henry Mancini |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"Patches", Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"The Thrill Is Gone", B.B. King |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female
 Aretha Franklin
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"Don't Play That Song", Aretha Franklin |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)", Delfonics |
| Best Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group |
Alone, Bill Evans |
| Best Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group |
Bitches Brew, Miles Davis |
| Best Country Song |
"My Woman, My Woman, My Wife", Marty Robbins, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"For the Good Times", Ray Price |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"Rose Garden", Lynn Anderson |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group |
"If I Were a Carpenter", Johnny Cash and June Carter |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
Me and Jerry, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed |
| Best Gospel Performance (Other Than Soul Gospel) |
"Talk About the Good Times", Oak Ridge Boys |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance |
"Every Man Wants to Be Free", Edwin Hawkins Singers |
| Best Sacred Performance |
"Everything Is Beautiful", Jake Hess |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording |
"Good Feelin'", T-Bone Walker (Polydor) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"Theme From Z", Henry Mancini, arranger |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water", Paul Simon, Arthur Garfunkel, Jimmie Haskell, Ernie Freeman and Larry Knechtel, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"Airport Love Theme", Alfred Newman, composer |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album |
Company, Stephen Sondheim, composer (Columbia) |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special |
Let It Be, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, composers |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Berlioz, Les Troyens, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Vickers, Veasey and Lindholm (Philips) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra |
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pierre Boulez conducting Cleveland Orchestra |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Beethoven, The Complete Piano Trios, Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra) |
Brahms, Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello), David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) |
New Music of Charles Ives, Gregg Smith conducting Gregg Smith Singers and Columbia Chamber Ensemble |
| Best Opera Recording |
Berlioz, Les Troyens, Colin Davis conducting Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; solos: Vickers, Veasey and Lindholm (Philips) |
| Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical |
Schubert, Lieder, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
| Best Comedy Recording |
The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, Flip Wilson (Little David) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording |
Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Black Forum) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Sesame Street, Sesame Street cast (Columbia) |
| Best Album Cover |
Indianola Mississippi Seeds, Robert Lockart, cover design; Ivan Nagy, photography (ABC) |
| Best Album Notes |
The World's Greatest Blues Singer, Chris Albertson, annotator (Columbia) |
