Grammy Awards of 1990

• Record of the Year
  • Arif Mardin (producer) & Bette Midler for "Wind Beneath My Wings"

• Album of the Year
  • Don Was (producer) & Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time

• Song of the Year
  • Jeff Silbar & Larry Henley (songwriters) for "Wind Beneath My Wings" performed by Bette Midler

• Best New Artist
  • Milli Vanilli (revoked)

Blues

• Best Traditional Blues Recording
  • Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker for "I'm in the Mood"
• Best Contemporary Blues Recording
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble In Step

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
  • J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (producers) & Tanya Goodman for The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 1

Classical

• Best Orchestral Performance
  • Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  • David Zinman (conductor), Dawn Upshaw & the Orchestra of St. Luke's for Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky
• Best Opera Recording
  • Cord Garben (producer), James Levine (conductor), Hildegard Behrens, Gary Lakes, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Moll, James Morris, Jessye Norman & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkuere
• Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
  • Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Britten: War Requiem
• Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (with orchestra)
  • David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Barber: Cello Concerto, Op. 22/Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra)
  • Andras Schiff for Bach: English Suites
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • The Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets
• Best Contemporary Composition
  • Steve Reich (composer) & the Kronos Quartet for Reich: Different Trains
• Best Classical Album
  • Wolf Erichson (producer) & the Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
  • Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
  • Danny Elfman (composer) for "The Batman Theme" performed by the Sinfonia of London Orchestra
• Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
  • Carly Simon (songwriter) for "Let the River Run"
• Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
  • Dave Grusin (composer) for The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
  • Dave Grusin (arranger) for "Suite From The Milagro Beanfield War"
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals
  • Dave Grusin (arranger) for "My Funny Valentine" performed by Michelle Pfeiffer

Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
  • k.d. lang for Absolute Torch and Twang
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  • Lyle Lovett for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two
• Best Country Vocal Collaboration
  • Hank Williams Jr. & Hank Williams Sr. for "There's a Tear in My Beer"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
  • Randy Scruggs for "Amazing Grace"
• Best Country Song
  • Rodney Crowell (songwriter) for "After All This Time"
• Best Bluegrass Recording
  • Bruce Hornsby & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for "The Valley Road"

Folk

• Best Traditional Folk Recording
  • Marcel Cellier (producer) for Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Vol. II performed by the Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir
• Best Contemporary Folk Recording
  • Indigo Girls for Indigo Girls

Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance, Female
  • CeCe Winans for "Don't Cry"

• Best Gospel Performance, Male
  • BeBe Winans for "Meantime"

• Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  • Take 6 for "The Savior Is Waiting"

• Best Soul Gospel Performance
  • Al Green for "As Long as We're Together"

• Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  • Daniel Winans for "Let Brotherly Love Continue"

Historical

• Best Historical Album
  • Andy McKaie (producer) for Chuck Berry - The Chess Box

Jazz

• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
  • Ruth Brown for Blues on Broadway
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
  • Harry Connick Jr. for When Harry Met Sally
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
  • Dr. John & Rickie Lee Jones for "Makin' Whoopee"
• Best Jazz Fusion Performance
  • Pat Metheny Group for Letter From Home
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
  • Miles Davis for Aura
• Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group
  • Chick Corea Akoustic Band for Chick Corea Akoustic Band
• Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Big Band
  • Miles Davis for Aura

Latin

• Best Latin Pop Performance
  • Jose Feliciano for "Cielito Lindo"
• Best Tropical Latin Performance
  • Celia Cruz & Ray Barretto for "Ritmo en el Corazon"
• Best Mexican-American Performance
  • Los Lobos for La Pistola y el Corazon

Musical Show

• Best Musical Cast Show Album
  • Jay David Saks (producer) & the original cast with Jason Alexander & Debbie Shapiro for Jerome Robbins' Broadway

Music Video

• Best Music Video, Short Form
  • Jim Blashfield (video director) Frank DiLeo, Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Paul Diener (video producers) & Michael Jackson for "Leave Me Alone"
• Best Music Video, Long Form
  • Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris ((video directors & producers), Dominic Sena (video director), Aris McGarry (video producer) & Janet Jackson for Rhythm Nation 1814

New Age

• Best New Age Album
  • Peter Gabriel for Passion - Music For the Last Temptation of Christ

Packaging and Notes

• Best Album Package
  • Roger Gorman (art director) for Sound + Vision performed by David Bowie
• Best Album Notes
  • Phil Schaap (notes writer) for Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve

Polka

• Best Polka Album
  • Jimmy Sturr for All in My Love for You"

'Pop'

• Best Vocal Performance, Female
  • Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time
• Best Vocal Performance, Male
  • Michael Bolton for "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt for "Don't Know Much"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  • The Neville Brothers for "Healing Chant"

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • George Massenburg (engineer) for Cry Like a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind performed by Linda Ronstadt
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
  • Peter Asher
• Best Classical Engineered Recording
  • Jack Renner (engineer), Robert Shaw (conductor), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & the Atlanta Boy Choir for Britten: War Requiem
• Classical Producer of The Year
  • Robert Woods

R&B

• Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
  • Anita Baker for Giving You the Best That I Got
• Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
  • Bobby Brown for "Every Little Step"
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Caron Wheeler & Soul II Soul for "Back to Life"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  • Soul II Soul for "African Dance"
• Best R&B Song
  • Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (songwriters) for "If You Don't Know Me By Now" performed by Simply Red

Rap

• Best Rap Performance
  • Young MC for "Bust a Move"

Reggae

• Best Reggae Recording
  • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers for One Bright Day

Rock

• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
  • Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time
• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
  • Don Henley for The End of the Innocence
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Traveling Wilburys for Traveling Wilburys Volume One
• Best Hard Rock Performance
  • Living Colour for Cult of Personality
• Best Metal Performance
  • Metallica for One
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance
  • Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas for Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
  • Gilda Radner for It's Always Something

Other Grammy Award Years

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