| Record of the Year |
"What's Love Got to Do With It", Tina Turner |
| Album of the Year |
Can't Slow Down, Lionel Richie (Motown) |
| Song of the Year |
"What's Love Got to Do With It", Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, songwriters |
| Best New Artist |
Cyndi Lauper |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", Phil Collins |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
"What's Love Got to Do With It", Tina Turner |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Jump (For My Love)", Pointer Sisters |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"Ghostbusters” (instrumental version), Ray Parker, Jr. |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
 Bruce Springsteen
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"Dancing in the Dark", Bruce Springsteen |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female |
"Better Be Good to Me", Tina Turner |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
Purple Rain - Music From the Motion Picture, Prince and the Revolution |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
"Cinema", Yes |
| Best New Rhythm and Blues Song |
"I Feel for You", Prince, songwriter |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)", Billy Ocean |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"I Feel for You", Chaka Khan |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Yah Mo B There", James Ingram and Michael McDonald |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance |
Sound-System, Herbie Hancock |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance |
Nothin' but the Blues, Joe Williams |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist |
Hot House Flowers, Wynton Marsalis |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group |
"New York Scene", Art Blakey |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band |
88 Basie Street, Count Basie and His Orchestra |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental |
First Circle, Pat Metheny Group |
| Best Country Song |
"City of New Orleans", Steve Goodman, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"That's the Way Love Goes", Merle Haggard |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"In My Dreams", Emmylou Harris |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Mama He's Crazy", Judds |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
"Wheel Hoss", Ricky Skaggs |
| Best Gospel Performance, Male |
Michael W. Smith, Michael W. Smith |
| Best Gospel Performance, Female |
"Angels", Amy Grant |
| Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Keep the Flame Burning", Debby Boone and Phil Driscoll |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male |
"Always Remember", Andrae Crouch |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female |
Sailin', Shirley Caesar |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love", Shirley Caeser and Al Green |
| Best Latin Pop Performance |
Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi Corazón), Placido Domingo |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance |
Palo Pa Rumba, Eddie Palmieri |
| Best Mexican/American Performance |
"Me Gustas Tal Como Eres", Sheena Easton and Luis Miguel |
| Best Inspirational Performance |
"Forgive Me", Donna Summer |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording |
Blues Explosion, John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor and the Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior” Johnson and J.B. Hutto and the New Hawks (Atlantic) |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording |
Elizabeth Cotten Live!, Elizabeth Cotten (Arhoolie) |
| Best Reggae Recording |
Anthem, Black Uhuru (Island) |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental |
"Grace” (Gymnastics Theme), Quincy Jones and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) |
"Hard Habit to Break", David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers |
| Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices |
"Automatic", Pointer Sisters, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition (tie) |
"The Natural", Randy Newman, composer |
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"Olympic Fanfare and Theme", John Williams, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album |
Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist (RCA) |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special |
Purple Rain, Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa and Wendy, songwriters (Warner Bros.) |
| Best New Classical Composition |
Antony and Cleopatra, Samuel Barber, composer |
| Best Classical Album |
Amadeus (Original Soundrack), Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Choristers of Westminster Abbey (Fantasy) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording |
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100, Leonard Slatkin conducting Saint Louis Symphony (RCA) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Beethoven, The Late String Quartets, Juilliard String Quartet |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter, Wynton Marsalis and Edita Gruberova; Raymond Leppard conducting English Chamber Orchestra |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) |
Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Yo-Yo Ma |
| Best Opera Recording |
Bizet, Carmen (Original Soundtrack), Lorin Maazel conducting Orchestre National de France; Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France; solos: Johnson, Esham, Domingo and Raimondi (Erato) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) |
Brahms, A German Requiem, James Levine conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony Chorus |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance |
Ravel, Songs of Maurice Ravel, Jessye Norman, Jose Van Dam and Heather Harper; Pierre Boulez conducting the Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| Best Comedy Recording |
Eat It, "Weird Al” Yankovic (Rock and Roll) |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording |
The Words of Gandhi, Ben Kingsley (Caedmon) |
| Best Recording for Children |
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (Columbia) |
| Best Album Package |
She's So Unusual, Janet Perr, art director (Portrait/CBS) |
| Best Album Notes |
Big Band Jazz, Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams, songwriters (Smithsonian) |
| Best Historical Album |
Big Band Jazz, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others (Smithsonian) |
| Best Video, Short Form |
"David Bowie", David Bowie |
| Best Video Album |
Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, Michael Jackson (Vestron Music Video) |
| Producers of the Year (Non-Classical) (tie) |
David Foster |
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Lionel Richie and James Anthony Carmichael |
| Classical Producer of the Year |
Steven Epstein |
