| Record of the Year |
"Bette Davis Eyes", Kim Carnes |
Album of the Year
 Yoko Ono and John Lennon |
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Double Fantasy, John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Warner Bros/Geffen) |
| Song of the Year |
"Bette Davis Eyes", Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, songwriters |
| Best New Artist |
Sheena Easton |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
Breakin Away, Al Jarreau |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live On Broadway, Lena Horne |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Boy From New York City", Manhattan Transfer |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"The Theme From Hill Street Blues", Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male |
"Jessie's Girl", Rick Springfield |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female |
"Fire and Ice", Pat Benatar |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Don't Stand So Close to Me", Police |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
"Behind My Camel", Police |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"Just the Two of Us", Bill Withers, William Salter and Ralph MacDonald, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, Male |
"One Hundred Ways", James Ingram |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"Hold On I'm Comin'", Aretha Franklin |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
The Dude, Quincy Jones |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance |
"All I Need Is You", David Sanborn |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male |
"Blue Rondo a la Turk", Al Jarreau |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female |
Digital III at Montreux, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group |
"Until I Met You” (Corner Pocket), Manhattan Transfer |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist |
Bye Bye Blackbird, John Coltrane |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group |
Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert, Zurich, October 28, 1979, Chick Corea and Gary Burton |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band |
Walk on the Water, Gerry Mulligan and His Orchestra |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental |
Winelight, Grover Washington, Jr. |
| Best Country Song |
"9 to 5", Dolly Parton, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
(There's) "No Gettin' Over Me", Ronnie Milsap |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"9 to 5", Dolly Parton |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Elvira", Oak Ridge Boys |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
Country, After All These Years, Chet Atkins |
| Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational |
Priority, Imperials |
| Best Gospel Performance, Traditional |
The Masters V, J.D. Sumner, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Rosie Rozell and Jake Hess |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary |
Don't Give Up, Andrae Crouch |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional |
The Lord Will Make a Way, Al Green |
| Best Latin Recording |
"Guajira Pa la Jeva", Clare Fischer (Pausa) |
| Best Inspirational Performance |
Amazing Grace, B.J. Thomas |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording |
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere, B.B. King (MCA) |
| Best Arrangement of an Instrumental Recording |
"Velas", Quincy Jones and Johnny Mandel, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) |
"Ai No Corrida", Quincy Jones and Jerry Hey, arrangers |
| Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices |
"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", Gene Puerling, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"The Theme From Hill Street Blues", Mike Post, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album |
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Live on Broadway, various composers and lyricists (Qwest/Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special |
Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams, composer (Columbia/CBS) |
| Best Classical Album |
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording |
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio in A Minor, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman; Zubin Mehta conducting New York Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) |
The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording |
Janácek, From the House of the Dead, Sir Charles Mackerras conducting Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Zahradnicek, Zitek and Zidek (London) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) |
Haydn, The Creation, Neville Marriner conducting Chorus of Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
Live From Lincoln Center, Sutherland-Horne-Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti |
| Best Comedy Recording |
Rev. Du Rite, Richard Pryor (Laff) |
| Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording |
Donovan's Brain, Orson Welles (Radiola) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Sesame Country, Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker; Jim Henson (Sesame Street) |
| Best Album Package |
Tatoo You, Peter Corriston, art director (Rolling Stones/Atlantic) |
| Best Album Notes |
Erroll Garner, Master of the Keyboard, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Book-of-the-Month Records) |
| Best Historical Album |
Hoagy Carmichael: From "Star Dust” to "Ole Buttermilk Sky” (Book-of-the-Month Records) |
| Video of the Year |
"Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts", Michael Nesmith |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) |
Quincy Jones |
| Classical Producer of the Year |
James Mallinson |
