1996 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| “Change the World,” Eric Clapton | |
| Album of the Year | Falling Into You, Celine Dion (550 Music/Epic) | |
| Song of the Year | “Change the World,” Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick and Tommy Sims, songwriters | |
| Best New Artist | LeAnn Rimes | |
| Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | “Change the World,” Eric Clapton | |
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | “Un-break My Heart,” Toni Braxton | |
| Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Free As a Bird,” The Beatles | |
| Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals | “When I Fall in Love,” Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “The Sinister Minister,” Béla Fleck and the Flecktones | |
| Best Pop Album | Falling Into You, Celine Dion (550 Music/Epic) | |
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Here's to the Ladies, Tony Bennett | |
| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance | “If It Makes You Happy,” Sheryl Crow | |
| Best Male Rock Vocal Performance | “Where It's At,” Beck | |
| Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal | “So Much to Say,” Dave Matthews Band | |
| Best Hard Rock Performance | “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” Smashing Pumpkins | |
| Best Metal Performance | “Tire Me,” Rage Against the Machine | |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “SRV Shuffle,” Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Dr. John and Art Neville | |
| Best Rock Song | “Give Me One Reason,” Tracy Chapman, songwriter | |
| Best Rock Album | Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow (A&M) | |
| Best Alternative Music Performance | Odelay, Beck | |
| Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | “You're Makin' Me High,” Toni Braxton | |
| Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | “Your Secret Love,” Luther Vandross | |
| Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Fugees | |
| Best R&B Song | “Exhale (Shoop, Shoop),” Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, songwriter | |
| Best R&B Album | Words, The Tony Rich Project (LaFace) | |
| Best Rap Solo Performance | “Hey Lover,” LL Cool J | |
| Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group | “Tha Crossroads,” Bone Thugs-N-Harmony | |
| Best Rap Album | The Score, Fugees; Lauryn Hill, Prakazrel “Pras” and Wyclef, producers (Ruffhouse/Columbia) | |
| Best Female Country Vocal Performance | “Blue,” LeAnn Rimes | |
| Best Male Country Vocal Performance | “Worlds Apart,” Vince Gill | |
| Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal | “My Maria,” Brooks and Dunn | |
| Best Country Collaboration With Vocals | “High Lonesome Sound,” Vince Gill featuring Alison Krauss and Union Station | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Jam Man,” Chet Atkins | |
| Best Country Song | “Blue,” Bill Mack, songwriter | |
| Best Country Album | The Road to Ensanada, Lyle Lovett; Billy Williams and Lyle Lovett, producers (Curb/MCA) | |
| Best Bluegrass Album | True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe, various artists (Sugar Hill) | |
| Best New Age Album | The Memory of Trees, Enya (Reprise) | |
| Best Contemporary Jazz Performance | High Life, Wayne Shorter | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance | New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Solo | “Cabin Fever,” Michael Brecker | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group | Tales From the Hudson, Michael Brecker | |
| Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance | Live at Manchester Craftmen's Guild, Count Basie Orchestra (with The New York Voices); Grover Mitchell, conductor | |
| Best Latin Jazz Performance | Portraits of Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera | |
| Best Rock Gospel Album | Jesus Freak, dc Talk (ForeFront Communications) | |
| Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album | Tribute — The Songs of Andrae Crouch, various artists; Norman Miller and Neal Joseph, producers (Warner Alliance) | |
| Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album | I Love to Tell the Story: 25 Timeless Hymns, Andy Griffith (Sparrow Communications Group) | |
| Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album | Face to Face, Cissy Houston (House of Blues Music Co.) | |
| Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album | Whatcha Lookin' 4, Kirk Franklin and the Family (Gospo Centric) | |
| Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus | Just a Word, Shirley Caesar's Outreach Convention Choir (Word Gospel) | |
| Best Latin Pop Performance | Enrique Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias | |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance | La Rosa de los Vientos, Ruben Blades | |
| Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance | Un Millon de Rosas, La Mafia | |
| Best Traditional Blues Album | Deep in the Blues, James Cotton (Verve) | |
| Best Contemporary Blues Album | Just Like You, Keb' Mo' (Okeh/Epic) | |
| Best Traditional Folk Album | Pete, Pete Seeger (Living Music) | |
| Best Contemporary Folk Album | The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) | |
| Best Reggae Album | Hall of Fame — A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary, Bunny Wailer (RAS Records) | |
| Best World Music Album | Santiago, The Chieftains (RCA Victor) | |
| Best Polka Album | Polka! All Night Long, Jimmy Sturr (Rounder) | |
| Best Musical Album for Children | Dedicated to the One I Love, Linda Ronstadt; George Massenburg and Linda Ronstadt, producers (Elektra) | |
| Best Spoken Word Album for Children | Stellaluna, David Holt; Virginia Callaway, Steven Heller and David Holt, producers (High Windy Audio) | |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album | It Takes a Village, Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon and Schuster Audioworks) | |
| Best Spoken Comedy Album | Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken (Dove Audio) | |
| Best Musical Show Album | Riverdance, various artists; Bill Whelan, producer, composer and lyricist (Celtic Heartbeat/Atlantic) | |
| Best Instrumental Composition | “Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love),” Herbie Hancock and Jean Hancock, composers | |
| Best Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture or for Television | Independence Day, David Arnold, composer | |
| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | “Because You Loved Me” (From Up Close and Personal ), Diane Warren, songwriter | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “An American Symphony (Mr. Holland's Opus),” Michael Kamen, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocal(s) | “When I Fall in Love,” Alan Broadbent, David Foster and Gordon Jenkins, arrangers | |
| Best Recording Package | Ultra-Lounge (Leopard Skin Sampler), Andy Engel and Tommy Steele, art directors (Capitol) | |
| Best Recording Package — Boxed | The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, Chika Azuma and Arnold Levine, art directors (Columbia) | |
| Best Album Notes | The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, George Avakian, Bob Belden, Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap, album-notes writers (Columbia) | |
| Best Historical Album | The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, Bob Belden and Phil Schaap, compilation producers; Phil Schaap and Mark Wilder, mastering engineers (Columbia) | |
| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical | Q's Jook Joint, Francis Buckley, Al Schmitt, Bruce Swedien and Tommy Vicari, engineers (Qwest/Warner Bros.) | |
| Producer of the Year | Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds | |
| Best Classical Engineered Recording | Copland: Dance Symphony; Short Symphony; Organ Symphony, Etc., William Hoekstra and Lawrence Rock, engineers (RCA Victor Red Seal) | |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Joanna Nickrenz | |
| Best Classical Album | Corgiliano: of Rage and Remembrance (Symphony No. 1, etc.), Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Joanna Nickrenz, producer; various artists (RCA Victor Red Seal) | |
| Best Orchestral Performance | Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Scenes From the Ballet), Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor | |
| Best Opera Recording | Britten: Peter Grimes, Richard Hickox, conductor; Philip Langridge, Alan Opie and Janice Watson, principal soloists; Brian Couzens, producer | |
| Best Choral Performance | “Walton: Belshazzar's Feast,” Andrew Litton, conductor; Neville Creed and David Hill, chorus masters | |
| Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra) | Bartok: The Three Piano Concertos, Yefim Bronfman, piano | |
| Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra) | The Romantic Master (Works of Saint-Saens; Handel, etc.), Earl Wild, piano | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | “Corigliano: String Quartet, etc.,” Cleveland Quartet | |
| Best Small Ensemble Performance (With or Without Conductor) | “Boulez:...Explosante-Fixe...,” Pierre Boulez, conductor | |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance | Opera Arias (Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin, etc.), Bryn Terfel, bass baritone | |
| Best Classical Contemporary Composition | “Corigliano: String Quartet,” John Corigliano, composer | |
| Best Music Video, Short Form | “Free As a Bird,” The Beatles; Joe Pytka, video director | |
| Best Music Video, Long Form | The Beatles Anthology, The Beatles; Geoff Wonfor, video director; Chips Chipperfield, video producer |
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