57th annual Grammy Awards – winners

Last night, the Recording Academy held their 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremonies, with a pre-telecast event at the Nokia Theater and the telecast show at the Staples Center. Generally, the telecast was a dull affair. Most of the performers did slow, sombre numbers. The notable exception was Sia's "Chandelier" which had Kristen Wiig dancing in costume and a wig.

Sam Smith was the night's biggest winner, taking three of the four big awards. He won for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist, as well as Best Pop Vocal Album.

The other major award Album of the Year went to the surprise winner Beck for Morning Phase. Kanye only half-jokingly went up on stage with him to pull a Kanye (as he did with Taylor Swift in 2009), however he turned around and returned to his seat. Beck also won for Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical.

Nominations for the 57th annual Grammy Awards


Complete list of winners for the 57th annual Grammy Awards

RECORD OF THE YEAR
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
Sam Smith

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Morning Phase
Beck

SONG OF THE YEAR
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith)

BEST NEW ARTIST
Sam Smith

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
Happy (Live)
Pharrell Williams

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Say Something
A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera

BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
Cheek To Cheek
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
In The Lonely Hour
Sam Smith

BEST DANCE RECORDING
Rather Be
Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM
Syro
Aphex Twin

BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Bass & Mandolin
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
Lazaretto
Jack White

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
The Last In Line
Tenacious D

BEST ROCK SONG
Ain't It Fun
Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters (Paramore)

BEST ROCK ALBUM
Morning Phase
Beck

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
St. Vincent
St. Vincent

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
Drunk In Love
Beyonce Featuring Jay Z

BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE
Jesus Children
Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner

BEST R&B SONG
Drunk In Love
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyonce Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters (Beyonce Featuring Jay Z)

BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Girl
Pharrell Williams

BEST R&B ALBUM
Love, Marriage & Divorce
Toni Braxton & Babyface

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
I
Kendrick Lamar

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
The Monster
Eminem Featuring Rihanna

BEST RAP SONG
I
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)

BEST RAP ALBUM
The Marshall Mathers LP2
Eminem

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
Something In The Water
Carrie Underwood

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Gentle On My Mind
The Band Perry
Track from: Glen Campbell, I'll Be Me Soundtrack EP

BEST COUNTRY SONG
I'm Not Gonna Miss You
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)
Track from: Glen Campbell, I'll Be Me Soundtrack

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Platinum
Miranda Lambert

BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
Winds Of Samsara
Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman

BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO
Fingerprints
Chick Corea, soloist

BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
Beautiful Life
Dianne Reeves

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BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Trilogy
Chick Corea Trio

BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
Life In The Bubble
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM
The Offense Of The Drum
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE/SONG
No Greater Love
Smokie Norful

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE/SONG
Messengers
Lecrae Featuring For King & Country

BEST GOSPEL ALBUM
Help
Erica Campbell

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM
Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong.
For King & Country

BEST ROOTS GOSPEL ALBUM
Shine For All The People
Mike Farris

BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
Tangos
Ruben Blades

BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
Multiviral

BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM (INCLUDING TEJANO)
Mano A Mano - Tangos A La Manera De Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernandez

BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM
Mas + Corazon Profundo
Carlos Vives

BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE
A Feather's Not A Bird
Rosanne Cash

BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG
A Feather's Not A Bird
Rosanne Cash

BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
The River & The Thread
Rosanne Cash

BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
The Earls Of Leicester
The Earls Of Leicester

BEST BLUES ALBUM
Step Back
Johnny Winter

BEST FOLK ALBUM
Remedy
Old Crow Medicine Show

BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM
The Legacy
Jo-El Sonnier

BEST REGGAE ALBUM
Fly Rasta
Ziggy Marley

BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
Eve
Angelique Kidjo

BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)
Neela Vaswani

BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO BOOKS & STORYTELLING)
Diary Of A Mad Diva
Joan Rivers

BEST COMEDY ALBUM
Mandatory Fun
"Weird Al" Yankovic

BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, composer

BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Let It Go
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Idina Menzel)
Track from: Frozen

BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
The Book Thief
John Williams, composer (John Williams)
Track from: The Book Thief Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPPELLA
Daft Punk
Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers (Pentatonix)

BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS
New York Tendaberry
Billy Childs, arranger (Billy Childs Featuring Renee Fleming & Yo-Yo Ma)
Track from: Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro

BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
Lightning Bolt
Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors (Pearl Jam)

BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors (Various Artists)

BEST ALBUM NOTES
Offering: Live At Temple University
Ashley Kahn, album notes writer (John Coltrane)

BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Hank Williams)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL
Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Beck)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Max Martin

BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL
All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer (John Legend)

BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM
Beyonce
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyonce Knowles, surround producer (Beyonce)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending
Michael Bishop, engineer; Michael Bishop, mastering engineer (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
Judith Sherman

BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
Adams, John: City Noir
David Robertson, conductor (St. Louis Symphony)

BEST OPERA RECORDING
Charpentier: La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble)

BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
The Sacred Spirit Of Russia
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Conspirare)

BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores
Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe

BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
Play
Jason Vieaux

BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
Douce France
Anne Sofie Von Otter; Bengt Forsberg, accompanist (Carl Bagge, Margareta Bengston, Mats Bergstrom, Per Ekdahl, Bengan Janson, Olle Linder & Antoine Tamestit)

BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances
Partch; John Schneider, producer

BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Adams, John Luther: Become Ocean
John Luther Adams, composer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Happy
Pharrell Williams

BEST MUSIC FILM
20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill

The Recording Academy Trustees Award
Richard Perry
Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
George Wein

Lifetime Achievement Awards
Bee Gees
Pierre Boulez
Buddy Guy
George Harrison (posthumous)
Flaco Jiménez
The Louvin Brothers (posthumous),
Wayne Shorter

Technical Grammy Award
Ray Kurzweil

Music Educator Award
Jared Cassedy