| Record of the Year |
"This Masquerade", George Benson |
| Album of the Year |
Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) |
| Song of the Year |
"I Write the Songs", Bruce Johnston, songwriter |
| Best New Artist of the Year |
Starland Vocal Band |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
Hasten Down the Wind, Linda Ronstadt |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"If You Leave Me Now", Chicago |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
Breezin', George Benson |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"Lowdown", Boz Scaggs and David Paich, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"I Wish", Stevie Wonder |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"Sophisticated Lady” (She's a Different Lady), Natalie Cole |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus |
"You Don't Have to Be a Star” (To Be in My Show), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance |
"Theme From Good King Bad", George Benson |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance |
Fitzgerald and Pass Again, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist |
Basie and Zoot, Count Basie |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band |
The Ellington Suites, Duke Ellington |
| Best Country Song |
"Broken Lady", Larry Gatlin, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
(I'm a) "Stand By My Woman Man", Ronnie Milsap |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group |
"The End Is Not in Sight” (The Cowboy Tune), Amazing Rhythm Aces |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
Chester and Lester, Chet Atkins and Les Paul |
| Best Gospel Performance |
"Where the Soul Never Dies", Oak Ridge Boys |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance |
How I Got Over, Mahalia Jackson |
| Best Latin Recording |
Unfinished Masterpiece, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) |
| Best Inspirational Performance |
The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, Gary S. Paxton |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording |
Mark Twang, John Hartford (Flying Fish) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"Leprechaun's Dream", Chick Corea, arranger |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists |
"If You Leave Me Now", Jimmy Haskell and James William Guercio, arrangers |
| Best Arrangement for Voices |
"Afternoon Delight", Starland Vocal Band, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
Bellavia, Chuck Mangione, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album |
Bubbling Brown Sugar, various composers (H&L) |
| Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special |
Car Wash, Norman Whitfield, composer (MCA) |
| Album of the Year, Classical |
Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic (RCA) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Performance |
Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
The Art of Courtly Love, David Munrow conducting Early Music Consort of London |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) |
Beethoven, The Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) |
Horowitz Concerts 1975/76, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording |
Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Lorin Maazel conducting Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical |
Rachmaninoff, The Bells, Arthur Oldham, Chorus master of London Symphony Chorus; André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
Music of Victor Herbert, Beverly Sills |
| Best Comedy Recording |
Bicentennial Nigger, Richard Pryor (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording |
Great American Documents, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes and James Earl Jones (CBS) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, Hermione Gingold, narrator; Karl Bohm, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Album Package |
Chicago X, John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
| Best Album Notes |
The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Savoy) |
| Best Producer of the Year |
Stevie Wonder |
