
2012 Grammy Award Winners |
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2012 Grammy Winners |
| Album of the Year: 21 – Adele |
| Record Of The Year: Rolling In The Deep – Adele |
| Song Of The Year: Rolling In The Deep – Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters |
| New Artist Bon Iver |
| Best Country Album: Own The Night – Lady Antebellum |
| Best R&B Album: F.A.M.E. – Chris Brown |
| Best Rock Performance: Walk – Foo Fighters |
| Best Rap Performance: Otis – Jay-Z & Kanye West |
| Best Pop Solo Performance: Someone Like You – Adele |
| Best Country Solo Performance: Mean – Taylor Swift |
| Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars |
| Best Country Song: Mean – Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift) |
| Best Folk Album: Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars |
| Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance: White Limo – Foo Fighters |
| Best Rock Song: Walk – Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters) |
| Best Rock Album: Wasting Light – Foo Fighters |
| Best Alternative Music Album: Bon Iver – Bon Iver |
| Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Paul Epworth, For work with Foster the People, Adele and Cee-Lo Green |
| Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: All Of The Lights – Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie |
| Best Rap Song: All Of The Lights – Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West, songwriters (Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie) |
| Best Rap Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West |
| Best R&B Performance: Is This Love – Corinne Bailey Rae |
| Best Traditional R&B Performance: Fool For You – Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona |
| Best R&B Song: Fool For You – Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim, Jack Splash, songwriters (Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona) |
| Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Body And Soul – Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse |
| Best Pop Instrumental Album: The Road From Memphis – Booker T. Jones |
| Best Pop Vocal Album: 21 – Adele |
| Best Short Form Music Video: Rolling In The Deep – Adele, Sam Brown, video director; Hannah Chandler, video producer |
| Best Long Form Music Video: Foo Fighters: Back And Forth – Foo Fighters |
| Best Improvised Jazz Solo: 500 Miles High – Chick Corea, soloist |
| 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 Jazz Instrumental Album: Forever – Corea, Clarke & White |
| Best Americana Album: Ramble At The Ryman – Levon Helm |
| Best Bluegrass Album Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station |
| Best Blues Album: Revelator – Tedeschi Trucks Band |
| Best Regional Roots Music Album: Rebirth Of New Orleans – Rebirth Brass Band |
| Best New Age Album: What’s It All About – Pat Metheny |
| Best Reggae Album: Revelation Pt 1: The Root Of Life – Stephen Marley |
| Best World Music Album: Tassili – Tinariwen |
| Best Children’s Album: All About Bullies … Big And Small – (Various Artists) Jim Cravero, Gloria Domina, Kevin Mackie, Steve Pullara & Patrick Robinson, producers |
| 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 Musical Theater Album: The Book Of Mormon – Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells, artists; 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 Dance Recording: Skrillex – Skrillex, producer; Skrillex, mixer |
| Best Dance/Electronica Album: Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites – Skrillex |
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Duets II – Tony Bennett & Various Artists |
| 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) |
| Producer Of The Year, Classical: Judith Sherman |
| 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 Choral Performance Light & Gold – Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King’s Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers) |
| Best Small Ensemble Performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music From Slide – Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird |
| Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Schwantner: Concerto For Percussion & Orchestra – Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony) |
| Best Classical Vocal Solo: Diva Divo – Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L’Opéra National De Lyon; Choeur De L’Opéra National De Lyon) |
| Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry – Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein |
| Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Jesus – Le’Andria Johnson |
| Best Gospel Song: Hello Fear – Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin) |
| Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Blessings – Laura Story, songwriter (Laura Story) |
| Best Gospel Album: Hello Fear – Kirk Franklin |
| Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: And If Our God Is For Us… – Chris Tomlin |
| Best Latin Pop, Rock, Or Urban Album: Drama Y Luz – Maná |
| Best Regional Mexican Or Tejano Album: Bicentenario – Pepe Aguilar |
| Best Banda Or Norteño Album: Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends – Los Tigres Del Norte |
| Best Tropical Latin Album: The Last Mambo – Cachao |
| Best Recording Package: Scenes From The Suburbs – Caroline Robert, art director (Arcade Fire) |
| 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 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 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) |
| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Paper Airplane – Neal Cappellino & Mike Shipley, engineers; 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) |
| 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 Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) – Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah) |
| Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1″ (Various Artists), Stewart Lerman, Randall Poster & Kevin Weaver, producers |
| 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) |








