1965 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | |
| Album of the Year | September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise) | |
| Song of the Year | “The Shadow of Your Smile” (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, songwriters | |
| Best New Artist | Tom Jones | |
| Most Promising New Recording Artist | Peter Serkin, pianist | |
| Best Vocal Performance, Male | “It Was a Very Good Year,” Frank Sinatra | |
| My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand | |
| Best Performance By a Vocal Group | We Dig Mancini, Anita Kerr Singers | |
| Best Performance By a Chorus | Anyone for Mozart?, Swingle Singers | |
| Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Single | “King of the Road,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Male | “King of the Road,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Female | “I Know a Place,” Petula Clark | |
| Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Performance Group (Vocal or Instrumental) | “Flowers on the Wall,” Statler Brothers | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Recording | “Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,” James Brown (King) | |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group | The “In” Crowd, Ramsey Lewis Trio | |
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group | Ellington '66, Duke Ellington Orchestra | |
| Best Original Jazz Composition | Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts, Lalo Shifrin, composer | |
| Best Country and Western Single | “King of the Road,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Country and Western Album | The Return of Roger Miller, Roger Miller (Smash) | |
| Best Country and Western Song | “King of the Road,” Roger Miller, songwriter | |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male | “King of the Road,” Roger Miller | |
| Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female | “Queen of the House,” Jody Miller | |
| Best New Country and Western Artist | Statler Brothers | |
| Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording (Musical) | Southland Favorites, George Beverly Shea and the Anita Kerr Quartet (RCA) | |
| Best Folk Recording | An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba (RCA) | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert, arranger | |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist | “It Was a Very Good Year,” Gordon Jenkins, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz | “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | |
| Best Score From an Original Show Album | On a Clear Day, Alan Lerner and Burton Lane (RCA) | |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show | The Sandpiper, Johnny Mandel, composer (Mercury) | |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, An Historic Return, Vladimir Horowitz (Columbia) | |
| Best Classical Performance, Orchestra | Ives, Symphony No. 4, Leopold Stokowski conducting American Symphony Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Chamber Music Performance, Instrumental or Vocal | Bartók, The Six String Quartets, Juilliard String Quartet | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Beethoven, Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Artur Rubinstein; Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) | Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, An Historic Return, Vladimir Horowitz | |
| Best Opera Recording | Berg, Wozzeck, Karl Bohm conducting Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin; solos: Fisher-Dieskau, Lear and Wunderlich (Deutsche Grammophon) | |
| Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms; Poulenc, Gloria, Robert Shaw conducting Robert Shaw Chorale and RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance, With or Without Orchestra | Strauss, Salome (“Dance of the Seven Veils,” Interlude, Final Scene); The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene), Leontyne Price | |
| Best Composition By a Contemporary Classical Composer | Symphony No. 4, Charles Ives, composer | |
| Best Comedy Performance | Why Is There Air?, Bill Cosby | |
| Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording | John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him (Columbia) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Dr. Seuss Presents “Fox in Sox” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” Marvin Miller (RCA) | |
| Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts | Bartók, Concerto No. 2 for Violin; Stravinsky, Concerto for Violin, James Alexander, graphic artist; George Estes, art director (RCA) | |
| Best Album Cover, Photography | Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts, Ken Whitmore, photographer; Bob Jones, art director (RCA) | |
| Best Album Notes | September of My Years, Stan Cornyn, annotator (Reprise) |
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