| Record of the Year |
"Another Day in Paradise", Phil Collins |
| Album of the Year |
Back on the Block, Quincy Jones (Qwest/Warner Bros.) |
| Song of the Year |
"From a Distance", Julie Gold, songwriter |
| Best New Artist |
Mariah Carey |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
"Oh Pretty Woman", Roy Orbison |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
"Vision of Love", Mariah Carey |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"All My Life", Linda Ronstadt with Aaron Neville |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"Twin Peaks Theme", Angelo Badalamenti |
| Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album |
Beyond Belief, Petra (Dayspring/Word) |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male |
"Bad Love", Eric Clapton |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female |
"Black Velvet", Alannah Myles |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Janie's Got a Gun", Aerosmith |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
"D/FW", Vaughan Brothers |
| Best Hard Rock Performance |
Time's Up, Living Colour |
| Best Metal Performance |
"Stone Cold Crazy", Metallica |
| Best Alternative Music Performance |
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Sinead O'Connor |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"U Can't Touch This", Rick James, Alonzo Miller and M.C. Hammer, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"Here and Now", Luther Vandross |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
Compositions, Anita Baker |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"I'll Be Good to You", Ray Charles and Chaka Khan |
| Best Rap Solo Performance |
"U Can't Touch This", M.C. Hammer |
| Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group |
"Back on the Block", Ice T, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Quincy D. III and Quincy Jones |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male |
We Are in Love, Harry Connick, Jr. |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
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All That Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist |
The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Oscar Peterson |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group |
The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Oscar Peterson Trio |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band |
"Basie's Bag", George Benson featuring the Count Basie Orchestra |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance |
"Birdland", Quincy Jones |
| Best Country Song |
"Where've You Been", Jon Vezner and Don Henry, songwriters |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"When I Call Your Name", Vince Gill |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"Where've You Been", Kathy Mattea |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
Pickin' on Nashville, Kentucky Headhunters |
| Best Country Vocal Collaboration |
"Poor Boy Blues", Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
"So Soft, Your Goodbye", Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler |
| Best Bluegrass Recording |
I've Got That Old Feeling, Alison Krauss (Rounder) |
| Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album |
Tramaine Hawkins Live, Tramaine Hawkins (Sparrow Corp.) |
| Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album |
So Much 2 Say, Take 6 (Reprise/Warner/Alliance) |
| Best Pop Gospel Album |
Another Time . . .Another Place, Sandi Patti (A&M/Word) |
| Best Southern Gospel Album |
The Great Exchange, Bruce Carroll (Word) |
| Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus |
Having Church, Rev. James Cleveland (Savoy) |
| Best Latin Pop Performance |
"Por Que Te Tengo Que Olvidar?", José Feliciano |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance |
"Lambada Timbales", Tito Puento |
| Best Mexican/American Performance |
"Soy de San Luis", Texas Tornados |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording |
Live at San Quentin, B.B. King (MCA) |
| Best Contemporary Blues Recording |
Family Style, Vaughan Brothers (Epic Associated) |
| Best Traditional Folk Recording |
On Praying Ground, Doc Watson (Sugar Hill) |
| Best Contemporary Folk Recording |
Steady On, Shawn Colvin (Columbia/CBS) |
| Best Reggae Recording |
Time Will Tell - A Tribute to Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer (Shanachie) |
| Best New Age Performance |
Mark Isham, Mark Isham |
| Best Polka Recording |
When It's Polka Time at Your House, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental |
"Birdland", Quincy Jones, Ian Prince, Rod Temperton and Jerry Hey, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) |
"The Places You Find Love", Jerry Hey, Glen Ballard, Clif Magness and Quincy Jones, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"Change of Heart” Pat Metheny, composer |
| Best Musical Cast Show Album |
Les Misèrables, The Complete Symphonic Recording (Relativity) |
| Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television |
Glory, James Horner, composer (Virgin) |
| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television |
"Under the Sea” (From The Little Mermaid), Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, composers |
| Best Contemporary Composition |
Arias and Barcarolles, Leonard Bernstein, composer |
| Best Classical Album |
Ives, Symphony No. 2 and Three Short Works, Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Chamber Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance |
Brahms, The Three Violin Sonatas, Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Daniel Barenboim, pianist |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1; Glazunov, Violin Concerto, Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Zubin Mehta conducting Israel Philharmonic |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) |
The Last Recording (Chopin, Haydn, Liszt and Wagner), Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording |
Wagner, Das Rheingold, James Levine conducting The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; solos: Morris, Ludwig, Jerusalem, Wlaschiha, Moll, Zednik and Rootering (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) |
Walton, Belshazzar's Feast; Bernstein, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis, Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance |
Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti in Concert, José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, tenors; Zubin Mehta conducting Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Orchestra del teatro dell'Opera di Roma |
| Best Comedy Recording |
P.D.Q. Bach, Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities, Professor Peter Shickele (Telarc) |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording |
Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns (Simon and Schuster Audio) |
| Best Recording for Children |
The Little Mermaid - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, composers (Disneyland Records) |
| Best Album Package |
Days of Open Hand (Special Edition Hologram Digapack), Len Peltier, Jeffrey Gold and Suzanne Vega, art directors (A&M) |
| Best Album Notes |
Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Emarcy) |
| Best Historical Album |
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Robert Johnson (Columbia/CBS) |
| Best Music Video, Short Form |
"Opposites Attract", Paula Abdul |
| Best Music Video, Long Form |
"Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em the Movie", M.C. Hammer |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) |
Quincy Jones |
| Classical Producer of the Year |
Adam Stern |
