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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.

Date: February 9, 2008
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Record Of The Year

Album Of The Year

Song Of The Year

Best New Artist

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Best Pop Performance By A Duo/group W/ Vocals

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss     Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
  • Timbaland Give It To Me
  • Gwen Stefani & Akon The Sweet Escape
  • Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera Steppin' Out
  • Beyonce & Shakira Beautiful Liar

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Dance Recording

Best Electronic/dance Album

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Best Rock Solo Vocal Performance

Best Rock Performance By A Duo/group W/ Vocals

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Rock Song

Best Rock Album

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Female R&b Vocal Performance

Best Male R&b Vocal Performance

Best R&b Performance By A Duo/group W/ Vocals

Best Traditional R&b Vocal Performance

Best Urban/alternative Performance

Best R&b Song

Best R&b Album

Best Contemporary R&b Album

Best Rap Solo Performance

Best Rap Performance By A Duo/group

Best Rap/sung Collaboration

Best Rap Song

Best Rap Album

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Best Country Collaboration W/ Vocals

  • Winner:
    Willie Nelson & Ray Price     Lost Highway
  • Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood Oh Love
  • Tim McGraw & Faith Hill I Need You
  • Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson Because of You
  • Steve Earle & Allison Moorer Days Aren't Long Enough

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Song

Best Country Album

Best Bluegrass Album

Best New Age Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Performance

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Best Latin Jazz Album

Best Gospel Performance

Best Gospel Song

Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Southern/country/bluegrass Album

Best Traditional Gospel Album

Best Contemporary R&b Gospel Album

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album

Best Latin Urban Album

Best Tropical Latin Album

Best Mexican/mexican-american Album

Best Tejano Album

Best Norteno Album

Best Banda Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Contemporary Folk/americana Album

Best Native American Music Album

  • Winner:
    Johnny Whitehorse     Totemic Flute Chants
  • R. Carlos Nakai, Cliff Sarde, William Eaton & Randy Wood Reconnections
  • Davis Mitchell The Ballad of Old Times
  • Black Lodge Watch This Dancer!
  • Walter Ahhaitty & Friends Oklahoma Style

Best Hawaiian Music Album

Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album

  • Winner:
    Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience     Live! Worldwide
  • Roddie Romero and the Hub City All-Stars The La Louisianne Sessions
  • Racines Racines
  • Pine Leaf Boys Blues De Musicien
  • Lisa Haley King Cake
  • Lost Bayou Ramblers Live: a La Blue Moon
  • Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie Le Cowboy Creole

Best Reggae Album

Best Traditional World Music Album

Best Contemporary World Music Album

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra     Come Share the Wine
  • Walter Ostanek and His Band & Brian Sklar and the Western Senators Dueling Polkas
  • Bubba Hernandez & Alex Meixner Polka Freak Out
  • John Gora & Gorale Bulletproof Polkas
  • Brave Combo Polka's Revenge

Best Children's Music Album

Best Children's Spoken Word Album

  • Winner:
    Jim Dale     Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Diane Ferlatte Wickety Whack: Brer Rabbit Is Back
  • Toni Morrison Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
  • Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci The One and Only Shrek
  • Milbre Burch Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories for a Wounded World

Best Spoken Word Album

Best Comedy Album

Best Musical Show Album

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album

Best Score Soundtrack Album

Best Song-motion Picture, Tv, Visual Media

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

  • Winner:
    John Clayton     I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
  • Pete McGuinness Smile
  • Michael Abene Overture/Gershwin Medley
  • Jay Ashby, Darmon Meader & Kim Nazarian In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  • Jorge Calandrelli Cry Me a River

Best Recording Package

  • Winner:
    Zack Nipper     Cassadaga
  • Qing-Yang Xiao White Horse
  • Don Clark Secrets Keep You Sick
  • Craig Thompson Friend & Foe
  • Masaki Koike The Dio Years

Best Boxed/special Limited Edition

  • Winner:
    Masaki Koike     What It Is!: Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977)
  • Matt Taylor & Valo Venus Doom
  • Stan Chow Icky Thump
  • Alex Kirzhner A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
  • Matt Taylor, Ellen Wakayama & Gerard Way The Black Parade

Best Album Notes

  • Winner:
    Bruce Nemerov     John Work, III: Recording Black Culture
  • Ricky Jay Ricky Jay Plays Poker
  • David Sager Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
  • Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s
  • Loren Schoen Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions

Best Historical Album

  • Winner:
    Nora Guthrie & Jorge Arevalo Mateus     The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
  • Christopher King & Henry "Hank" Sapoznik People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
  • Alec Palao Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
  • David Giovannoni, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From the 1890s
  • Stuart Batsford, Mick Houghton & Phil Smee Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973 (Deluxe Edition)

Best Engineered Album, Non Classical

Best Remixed Recording

Best Surround Sound Album

Best Engineered Album, Classical

  • Winner: Various Artists Passion Week
  • Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration
  • Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg & Mormon Tabernacle Choir Spirit of the Season
  • Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud & Simon Rattle Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos
  • Jerry Junkin & Dallas Wind Symphony Garden of Dreams

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Nashville Symphony     Tower: Made In America
  • James Levine; Boston Symphony Orchestra Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
  • Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre Homage: The Age of the Diva
  • Various Artists Passion Week
  • Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks Cherubini: Missa Solemnis in E

Best Orchestra Performance

  • Winner:
    Nashville Symphony     Tower: Made in America
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Serenade to Music
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra Shostakovich: The Golden Age
  • Minnesota Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Sarah Coppen, Diana Montague & Sarah Tynan; New London Children's Choir     Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel
  • Choir Of The Bavarian State Opera; Bavarian State Orchestra Verdi: La Traviata
  • Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra Lully: Thesee
  • Orquesta Y Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid Albeniz: Pepita Jimenez
  • The Royal Opera Chorus; The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Donizetti: Dom Sebastien, Roi De Portugal

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Thomas Quasthoff & Dorothea Roschmann     Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Michael Gielen Schonberg: Gurrelieder
  • Antoni Wit Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates Of Jerusalem'
  • Charles Bruffy Grechaninov: Passion Week
  • Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak Cherubini: Missa Solemnis in E

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)

  • Winner:
    Bramwell Tovey     Barber/Korngold/Walton: Violin Concertos
  • Ari Rasila Tchaikovsky/Saint-Saens/Ginastera
  • Dmitry Yablonsky Rozsa: Violin Concerto, Op. 24
  • Simon Rattle Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concert
  • Christoph Eschenbach Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)

  • Winner:
    Garrick Ohlsson     Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
  • Allison Brewster Franzetti 20th Century Piano Sonatas
  • Manuel Barrueco Solo Piazzolla
  • Kenneth Boulton Louisiana: A Pianist's Journey
  • Marc Andre Hamelin Haydn

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner: Eighth Blackbird Strange Imaginary Animals
  • Joseph Banowetz & Alton Chung Ming Chan 30 Songs of the Russian People
  • Ying Quartet Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets, Souvenir De Florence
  • Artists Of The Royal Conservatory Ensemble On the Threshold of Hope
  • Oleg Maisenberg & Sabine Meyer Saint-Saens/Poulenc/Devienne/Milhaud

Best Small Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Yuri Bashmet     Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto in D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives
  • Stile Antico Music for Compline
  • Kenneth Slowik Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde
  • Frank Proto Bridges: Eddie Daniels Plays the Music of Frank Proto
  • Swiss Baroque Soloists Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Lorraine Hunt Lieberson     Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
  • Sarah Connolly Sea Pictures, Op. 37
  • Anna Netrebko Russian Album
  • Rolando Villazon Gitano: Zarzuela Arias
  • Renee Fleming Homage: The Age of the Diva

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Joan Tower     Made in America
  • Peter Lieberson Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
  • Jennifer Higdon Higdon: Zaka
  • David Chesky Chesky: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
  • Joan Albert Amargos Amargos: Northern Concerto

Best Classical Crossover Album

  • Winner:
    Turtle Island String Quartet     A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
  • Brian Setzer (The Brian Setzer Orchestra) Wolfgang's Big Night Out
  • Quartet San Francisco Whirled Chamber Music
  • Craig Jessop & Mack Wilberg Spirit of the Season
  • Thomas Quasthoff The Jazz Album: Watch What Happens

Best Short Form Music Video

Best Long Form Music Video

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