2012 Grammy Awards
February 12th 2012
Record of the Year:
“Rolling in the Deep” by Adele
Song of the Year:
“Rolling in the Deep” by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
"Body And Soul – Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
Best Pop Solo Performance:
"Someone Like You" – Adele
Best Pop Instrumental Album:
"The Road From Memphis" – Booker T. Jones
Best Rock Song:
"Walk" - Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance:
"White Limo" - Foo Fighters
Best Alternative Music Album:
"Bon Iver" – Bon Iver
Best R&B Song:
"Fool For You" – Cee Lo Green & Jack Splash, songwriters (Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona)
Best Blues Album:
"Revelator" – Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best Rap Album:
"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" – Kanye West
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
"All Of The Lights "– Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
Best Rap Performance:
"Otis" – Jay-Z & Kanye West
Best Gospel Album:
"Hello Fear" – Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song:
"Blessings" – Laura Story, songwriter (Laura Story)
Best Country Song:
"Mean" – Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
"Barton Hollow" – The Civil War
Best Americana Album:
"Ramble At The Ryman" – Levon Helm
Best Jazz Vocal Album:
"The Mosaic Project" – Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
"The Good Feeling" - Christian McBride Big Band
Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
"500 Miles High" – Chick Corea, soloist
Best Latin Pop, Rock, Or Urban Album:
"Drama Y Luz" - Maná
Best Regional Mexican Or Tejano Album:
"Bicentenario" - Pepe Aguilar
Best Reggae Album:
"Revelation Pt 1: The Root Of Life" - Stephen Marley
Best Children’s Album:
"All About Bullies... Big And Small" - (Various Artists) James Cravero, Gloria Domina, Kevin Mackie, Steve Pullara & Patrick Robinson, producers
Best Musical Theater Album:
"The Book Of Mormon" - Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells, principal soloists; Anne Garefino, Robert Lopez, Stephen Oremus, Trey Parker, Scott Rudin & Matt Stone, producers; Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media:
"The King's Speech" - Alexandre Desplat, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media:
"I See The Light" (From "Tangled") - Alan Menken & Glenn Slater, songwriters (Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi)
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" - Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package:
"The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story" - Dave Bett & Michelle Holme, art directors
(Bruce Springsteen)
Best Historical Album:
"Band On The Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection - Deluxe Edition)" - Paul McCartney, compilation producer; Sam Okell & Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (Paul McCartney & Wings)
Producer of The Year, Non Classical:
Paul Epworth - "Call It What You Want" (Foster The People) (T); "I Would Do Anything For You" (Foster The People) (T); "I'll Be Waiting" (Adele) (T); "Life On The Nickel" (Foster The People) (T); "No One's Gonna Love You" (Cee-Lo Green) (S); "Rolling In The Deep" (Adele) (T)
Best Engineered Album, Classical:
"Aldridge: Elmer Gantry" - Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)
Best Orchestral Performance:
"Brahms: Symphony No. 4" - Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Best Opera Recording:
"Adams: Doctor Atomic" - Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley, Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Best Small Ensemble Performance:
"Lonely Motel - Music From The Slide" - Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird
"Schwantner: Concerto For Percussion & Orchestra" - Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony); Track from: "Schwantner: Chasing Light..."
Best Contemporary Classical Composition:
"Elmer Gantry" - Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein
Best Short Form Music Video:
"Rolling In The Deep" - Adele; Sam Brown, video director; Hannah Chandler, video producer
Album of the Year:
Adele - "21"
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
"Duets II" – Tony Bennett & Various Artists
Best New Artist:
Bon Iver
Best Pop Vocal Album:
"21" – Adele
Best Rock Album:
"Wasting Light" – Foo Fighters
Best Rock Performance:
"Walk" – Foo Fighters
Best Dance/Electronica Album:
"Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites" – Skrillex
Best Dance Recording:
"Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites" – Skrillex
Best Traditional R&B Performance:
"Fool For You" – Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
Best R&B Performance:
"Is This Love" – Corinne Bailey Rae
Best R&B Album:
"F.A.M.E." – Chris Brown
Best Rap Song:
"All Of The Lights" – Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West, songwriters (Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie)
Best Gospel Song:
"Hello Fear" – Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin)
Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance:
Jesus" – Le’Andria Johnson
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:
"And If Our God Is For Us…" – Chris Tomlin
Best Country Album:
"Own The Night" – Lady Antebellum
Best Country Solo Performance:
"Mean" – Taylor Swift
Best Bluegrass Album:
"Paper Airplane" – Alison Krauss & Union Station
Best Folk Album:
"Barton Hollow" – The Civil Wars
Best Jazz Instrumental Album:
"Forever" - Corea, Clarke & White
Best New Age Album:
"What's It All About" – Pat Metheny
Best Tropical Latin Album:
"The Last Mambo" - Cachao
Best Banda Or Norteño Album:
"Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends" - Los Tigres Del Norte
Best World Music Album:
"Tassili" - Tinariwen
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
"Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1" – (Various Artists)
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling):
"If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't)" - Betty White
Best Comedy Album:
"Hilarious" - Louis C.K.
Best Instrumental Composition:
"Life In Eleven" - Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck & The Flecktones)
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
"Rhapsody In Blue" - Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
Best Recording Package:
"Scenes From The Suburbs" - Vincent Morisset, art director (Arcade Fire)
Best Album Notes:
"Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond As Recorded By The San Francisco Bay By Chris Strachwitz In The 1960s" - Adam Machado, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Best Engineered Album, Non Classical:
"Paper Airplane" - Mike Shipley, engineer; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)
Best Remixed Recording, Non Classical:
"Cinema" (Skrillex Remix) - Sonny Moore, remixer (Benny Benassi)
Best Surround Sound Album:
"Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)" - Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Bill Levenson & Elliot Scheiner, surround producers (Derek & The Dominos)
Producer Of The Year, Classical:
Judith Sherman - "Adams: Son Of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet" (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble); "Capricho Latino" (Rachel Barton Pine); "85th Birthday Celebration" (Claude Frank); "Insects & Paper Airplanes - Chamber Music Of Lawrence Dillon" (Daedalus Quartet & Benjamin Hochman); "Midnight Frolic - The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch" (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra); "Notable Women - Trios By Today's Female Composers" (Lincoln Trio); "The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1 - String Quartets By Dmitri Shostakovich & His Contemporaries" (Pacifica Quartet); "Speak!" (Anthony De Mare); "State Of The Art" - The American Brass Quintet At 50 (The American Brass Quintet); "Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion); "Winging It - Piano Music Of John Corigliano" (Ursula Oppens)
Best Choral Performance:
"Light & Gold" - Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
Best Classical Vocal Solo:
Winner "Diva Divo"- Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon; Choeur De L'Opéra National De Lyon)
Best Long Form Video:
"Foo Fighters Back And Forth" - Foo Fighters; James Moll, video director; James Moll & Nigel Sinclair, video producers