| Record of the Year |
"I Honestly Love You", Olivia Newton-John |
| Album of the Year |
Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) |
| Song of the Year |
"The Way We Were", Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, songwriters |
| Best New Artist of the Year |
Marvin Hamlisch |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
"I Honestly Love You", Olivia Newton-John |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"Band on the Run", Paul McCartney and Wings |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"The Entertainer", Marvin Hamlisch |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"Living for the City", Stevie Wonder, songwriter |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"Boogie on Reggae Woman", Stevie Wonder |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", Aretha Franklin |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"Tell Me Something Good", Rufus |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance |
"TSOP” (The Sound of Philadelphia), MFSB |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist |
First Recordings!, Charlie Parker |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Group |
The Trio, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Niels Pedersen |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band |
Thundering Herd, Woody Herman |
| Best Country Song |
"A Very Special Love Song", Norris Wilson and Billy Sherrill, songwriters |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends", Ronnie Milsap |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
Love Song, Anne Murray |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Fairytale", Pointer Sisters |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show, Chet Atkins and Merle Travis |
| Best Gospel Performance |
"The Baptism of Jesse Taylor", Oak Ridge Boys |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance |
In the Ghetto, James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir |
| Best Inspirational Performance |
"How Great Thou Art", Elvis Presley |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording |
Two Days in November, Doc and Merle Watson |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"Threshold", Pat Williams, arranger |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists |
"Down to You", Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"Tubular Bells” (Theme From The Exorcist), Mike Oldfield, composer |
| Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album |
Raisin, Judd Woldin and Robert Britten, composers (Columbia) |
| Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special |
The Way We Were, Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, composers (Columbia) |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony (London) |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra |
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Brahms and Schumann Trios, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1, David Oistrakh |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) |
Albeniz, Iberia, Alicia de Larrocha |
| Best Opera Recording |
Puccini, La Bohème, Sir Georg Solti conducting London Philharmonic; solos: Caballé, Domingo, Milnes, Blegen and Raimondi (RCA) |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) |
Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Ambrosian Singers and Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; solos: Gedda, Bastin, Veasey and Van Allen |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss, Leontyne Price |
| Best Comedy Recording |
That Nigger's Crazy, Richard Pryor (Partee/Stax) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording |
Good Evening, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Island) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell (Disneyland) |
| Best Album Package |
Come and Gone, Ed Thrasher and Christopher Whorf, art directors (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album Notes (tie) |
For the Last Time, Charles R. Townsend, annotator (United Artists) |
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The Hawk Flies, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Milestone) |
| Best Album Notes, Classical |
The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Rory Guy, annotator (Angel) |
| Best Producer of the Year |
Thom Bell |
