Album of the Year: PAUL SIMON, Graceland
Record of the Year:STEVE WINWOOD, "Higher Love"
Song of the Year: CAROLE BAYER SAGER & BURT BACHARACH, "That's What Friends Are For" (Dionne Warwick & Friends)
Best Album Package:EIKO ISHIOKA, art director, Tutu (Miles Davis)
Best Engineering: JASON CASARO & TOM ALGE, Back in the High Life (Steve Winwood)
Best Classical Album: VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York, 1985
Best Comedy Recording:BILL COSBY, Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand
Best Instrumental Composition:JOHN BARRY, Out of Africa soundtrack
Best Country Instrumental Performance: RICKY SKAGGS, "Raisin' The Dickens"
Best Country Performance by Duo/Group: THE JUDDS, "Grandpa"
Best Country Song:JAMIE O'HARA, "Grandpa" (The Judds)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: REBA McENTIRE, "Whoever's in New England"
Best Country Vocal Peformance, Male: RONNIE MILSAP, "Lost in the Fifties Tonight"
Best Jazz Fusion Performance: DAVID SANBORN & BOB JAMES, "Double Vision"
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: WYNTON MARSALIS, "J Mood"
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band: DOC SEVERINSEN, The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female: DIANE SCHURR, "Timeless"
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male: BOBBY McFERRIN, "Round Midnight"
Best Music Video (Long Form): STING for "Bring on the Night"
Best Music Video (Short Form):DIRE STRAITS, "Brothers in Arms"
Best New Artist: BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE RANGE
Best Pop Performance by Duo/Group: ELTON JOHN, DIONNE WARWICK, GLADYS KNIGHT, STEVIE WONDER, "That's What Friends Are For"
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: STEVE WINWOOD, "Higher Love"
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: BARBARA STREISAND, The Broadway Album
Best R& B Song:ANITA BAKER, LOUIS JOHNSON & GARY BISS, "Sweet Love"
Best R&B Performance by Duo/Group: PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, "Kiss"
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: ANITA BAKER, Rapture
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: JAMES BROWN, Living in America
Best Rock Performance by Duo/Group: EURYTHMICS, "Missionary Man"
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: ART OF NOISE FEATURING DUANE EDDY, "Peter Gunn"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: TINA TURNER, "Back Where You Started"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: ROBERT PALMER, "Addicted to Love"
Best Gospel Performance, Duo/GroupSANDI PATTI & DENIECE WILLIAMS, "They Say"
Best Gospel Performance, FemaleSANDI PATTI, Morning Like This
Best Gospel Performance, MalePHILIP BAILEY, Triumph
Best Soul Gospel Performance, Duo/GroupWINANS, Let My People Go
Best Soul Gospel Performance, FemaleDENIECE WILLIAMS, "I Surrender All"
Best Soul Gospel Performance, MaleAL GREEN, "Going Away"
Best Traditional Blues Recording: ROBERT CRAY, ALBERT COLLINS, JOHNNY COPELAND, Showdown!
Best Reggae Recording: STEEL PULSE, Babylon the Bandit