| Record of the Year |
"Kiss From a Rose", Seal |
Album of the Year
 Alanis Morissette
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Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (Maverick/Reprise) |
| Song of the Year |
"Kiss From a Rose", Seal, songwriter |
| Best New Artist |
Hootie and the Blowfish |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male |
"Kiss From a Rose", Seal |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female |
"No More `I Love You's", Annie Lennox |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Let Her Cry", Hootie and the Blowfish |
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance |
"Duets II", Frank Sinatra |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance |
"Mariachi Suite", Los Lobos |
| Best Pop Vocal Collaboration |
"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?", The Chieftains with Van Morrison |
| Best Pop Album |
Turbulent Indigo, Joni Mitchell (Reprise) |
| Best Rock Album |
Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (Maverick/Reprise) |
| Best Rock Gospel Album |
Lesson of Love, Ashley Cleveland (Reunion) |
| Best Rock Song |
"You Oughta Know", Glen Ballard and Alanis Morissette, songwriters |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male |
"You Don't Know How It Feels", Tom Petty |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female |
"You Oughta Know", Alanis Morissette |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Run-Around", Blues Traveler |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance |
"Jessica", The Allman Brothers Band |
| Best Hard Rock Performance |
"Spin the Black Circle", Pearl Jam |
| Best Metal Performance |
"Happiness Is Slavery", Nine Inch Nails |
| Best Alternative Music Performance |
MTV Unplugged in New York, Nirvana (DGC) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Album |
CrazySexyCool, TLC (LaFace Records) |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song |
"For Your Love", Stevie Wonder, songwriter |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male |
"For Your Love", Stevie Wonder |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female |
"I Apologize", Anita Baker |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Creep", TLC |
| Best Rap Album |
Poverty's Paradise, Naughty by Nature (Tommy Boy) |
| Best Rap Solo Performance |
"Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio |
| Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group |
"I'll Be There for You”/"You're All I Need to Get By", Method Man/Mary J. Blige |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance |
"An Evening With Lena Horne", Lena Horne |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Solo |
"Impressions", Michael Brecker |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group |
"Infinity", McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Michael Brecker |
| Best Contemporary Jazz Performance |
"We Live Here", Pat Metheny Group |
| Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance |
"All Blues", GRP All-Star Big Band and Tom Scott |
| Best Latin Jazz Performance |
"Antônio Brasileiro", Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Best Country Album |
The Woman in Me, Shania Twain (Mercury Nashville) |
| Best Country Song |
"Go Rest High on That Mountain", Vince Gill, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male |
"Go Rest High on That Mountain", Vince Gill |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female |
"Baby, Now That I've Found You", Alison Krauss |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal |
"Here Comes the Rain", The Mavericks |
| Best Country Vocal Collaboration |
"Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", Shenandoah with Alison Krauss |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance |
"Hightower", Asleep at the Wheel featuring Bela Fleck and Johnny Gimble |
| Best Bluegrass Album |
Unleashed, The Nashville Bluegrass Band (Sugar Hill) |
| Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album |
Shirley Caesar Live . . .He Will Come, Shirley Caesar (Word) |
| Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album |
Alone in His Presence, CeCe Winans (Sparrow Communications Group) |
| Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album |
I'll Lead You Home, Michael W. Smith (Reunion) |
| Best Rock Gospel Album |
Lesson of Love, Ashley Cleveland (Reunion) |
| Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album |
Amazing Grace - A Country Salute to Gospel, various artists (Sparrow Communications Group) |
| Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus |
Praise Him . . .Live!, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir (Warner Alliance) |
| Best Latin Pop Performance |
"Amor", Jon Secada |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance |
"Abriendo Puertas", Gloria Estefan |
| Best Mexican-American Performance |
"Flaco Jimenez", Flaco Jimenez |
| Best Traditional Blues Album |
Chill Out, John Lee Hooker (Point-Blank) |
| Best Contemporary Blues Album |
Slippin' In, Buddy Guy (Silvertone) |
| Best Traditional Folk Album |
South Coast, Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Red House) |
| Best Contemporary Folk Album |
Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris (Asylum/Elektra) |
| Best Reggae Album |
Boombastic, Shaggy (Virgin) |
| Best New Age Album |
Forest, George Winston |
| Best World Music Album |
Bohème, Deep Forest (Windham Hill) |
| Best Polka Album |
I Love to Polka, Jimmy Sturr (Rounder) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement |
"Lament", Robert Farnon, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocal(s) |
"I Get a Kick out of You", Rob McConnell, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition |
"A View From the Side", Bill Holman |
| Best Musical Show Album |
Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, Jerry Leiber, lyricist; Mike Stoller, composer (Atlantic Theater) |
| Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television |
"Crimson Tide", Hans Zimmer, composer |
| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television |
"Colors of the Wind” (From Pocahontas), Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, songwriters |
| Best Classical Contemporary Composition |
"Messiaen: Concert a Quatre", Olivier Messiaen, composer |
| Best Classical Album |
Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux, etc. Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios, Emanuel Ax, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) |
The American Album (Works of Bernstein, Barber, Foss), Itzhak Perlman, violin (EMI Classics) |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) |
Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B-Flat Major and A Major), Radu Lupu, piano (London Records) |
| Best Orchestral Performance |
Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes; Jeux, etc., Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Opera Recording |
Berlioz: Les Troyens, Charles Dutoit conducting the Orchestre Symphonie de Montreal |
| Best Performance of a Choral Work |
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Herbert Blomstedt conducting San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and various artists |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance |
The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell (If Music Be the Food of Love; Sweeter Than Roses, etc.), Sylvia McNair, soprano |
| Best Spoken Comedy Album |
Crank Calls, Jonathan Winters (Audio Select) |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album |
Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou (Random House Audio Books) |
| Best Musical Album for Children |
Sleepy Time Lullabys, Barbara Bailey Hutchison (Jaba) |
| Best Spoken Word Album for Children |
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Patrick Stewart (Erato) |
| Best Recording Package |
Turbulent Indigo, Robbie Cavolina and Joni Mitchell, art directors (Reprise) |
| Best Recording Package - Boxed |
Civilization Phaze III, Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa, art directors (Barking Pumpkin) |
| Best Album Notes |
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Volume 3: 1972–1975, Rob Bowman, album notes writer (Stax) |
| Best Historical Album |
The Heifitz Collection (RCA Victor Gold Seal) |
| Best Music Video, Short Form |
"Scream", Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson |
| Best Music Video, Long Form |
"Secret World Live", Peter Gabriel |
| Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) |
Wildflowers, Dave Bianco, Richard Dodd, Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Scott, engineers (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Classical Engineered Recording |
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra/Kossuth: Symphonic Poem, Michael Mailes and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (London Records) |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) |
Babyface |
| Classical Producer of the Year |
Steven Epstein |
