2012 Grammy Award Winners
Were held on February 12, 2012
Held at: Staples Center in Los Angeles
Hosted By: LL Cool J
Eligibility Year: October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011
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)
