1980 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Sailing,” Christopher Cross |
| Album of the Year | Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross (Warner Bros.) |
| Song of the Year | “Sailing,” Christopher Cross, songwriter |
| Best New Artist | Christopher Cross |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “This Is It,” Kenny Loggins |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “The Rose,” Bette Midler |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Guilty,” Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | One on One, Bob James and Earl Klugh |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | Glass Houses, Billy Joel |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | Crimes of Passion, Pat Benatar |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Against the Wind, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “Reggatta de Blanc,” Police |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Never Knew Love Like This Before,” Reggie Lucas and James Mtume, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, Male | Give Me the Night, George Benson |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Never Knew Love Like This Before,” Stephanie Mills |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Shining Star,” Manhattans |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “Off Broadway,” George Benson |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male | “Moody's Mood,” George Benson |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female | A Perfect Match/Ella and Basie, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist | I Will Say Goodbye, Bill Evans |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | We Will Meet Again, Bill Evans |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | On the Road, Count Basie and Orchestra |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental | “Birdland,” Manhattan Transfer |
| Best Country Song | “On the Road Again,” Willie Nelson, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” George Jones |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Could I Have This Dance,” Anne Murray |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “That Lovin' You Feelin' Again,” Roy Orbison and Emmylou Harris |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown,” Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band |
| Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational | The Lord's Prayer, Reba Rambo, Dony McGuire, B.J. Thomas, Andrae Crouch, the Archers, Walter and Tramiane Hawkins and Cynthia Clawson |
| Best Gospel Performance, Traditional | We Come to Worship, Blackwood Brothers |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary | Rejoice, Shirley Caesar |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional | Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument, James Cleveland and the Charles Fold Singers |
| Best Latin Recording | La Onda Va Bien, Cal Tjader (Concord Jazz) |
| Best Inspirational Performance | With My Song I Will Praise Him, Debby Boone |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | Rare Blues, Dr. Isaiah Ross, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big Joe Williams, Son House, Rev. Robin Wilkins, Little Brother Montgomery and Sunnyland Slim (Takoma) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Dinorah, Dinorah,” Quincy Jones and Jerry Hey, arrangers |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) | “Sailing,” Michael Omatian and Christopher Cross, arrangers |
| Best Arrangement for Voices | “Birdland,” Janis Siegel, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition | The Empire Strikes Back, John Williams, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album | Evita—Premier American Recording, Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer; Tim Rice, Iyricist (MCA) |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | The Empire Strikes Back, John Williams, composer (RSO) |
| Best Classical Album | Berg, Lulu (Complete Version), Pierre Boulez conducting Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris; solos: Stratas, Minton, Mazura and Blankenheim (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording | Bruckner, Symphony No. 6 in A Major, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski, Suite for Two Violins; Shostakovich, Duets; Prokofiev, Sonata for Two Violins), Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) (tie) | Berg, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Stravinsky, Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman; Seiji Ozawa conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Brahms, Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello (Double Concerto), Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich; Bernard Haitink conducting Concertgebouw Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | The Spanish Album, Itzhak Perlman |
| Best Opera Recording | Berg, Lulu (Complete Version), Pierre Boulez conducting Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris; solos: Stratas, Minton, Mazura and Blankenheim |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) | Mozart, Requiem, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor and Norbert Balatsch, chorus master, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Prima Donna, Volume 5 Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten, Leontyne Price; Henry Lewis conducting Philharmonia Orchestra |
| Best Comedy Recording | No Respect, Rodney Dangerfield (Casablanca) |
| Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording | Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Pat Carroll (Caedmon) |
| Best Recording for Children | In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record, Doobie Brothers, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Muppets, Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Wendy Waldman, Libby Titus and Dr. John, Livingston Taylor, George Benson and Pauline Wilson, Lucy Simon, Kate Taylor and the Simon/Taylor Family (Sesame Street/Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album Package | Against the Wind, Roy Kohara, art director (Capitol) |
| Best Album Notes | Trilogy: Past, Present and Future, David McClintick, annotator (Reprise/Warner Bros.) |
| Best Historical Reissue Album | Segovia—The EMI Recordings 1927–39 (Angel) |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) | Phil Ramone |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Robert Woods |
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