1984 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “What's Love Got to Do With It,” Tina Turner | |
| Album of the Year | Can't Slow Down, Lionel Richie (Motown) | |
| Song of the Year | “What's Love Got to Do With It,” Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, songwriters | |
| Best New Artist | Cyndi Lauper | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” Phil Collins | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “What's Love Got to Do With It,” Tina Turner | |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Jump (For My Love),” Pointer Sisters | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “Ghostbusters” (instrumental version), Ray Parker, Jr. | |
| “Dancing in the Dark,” Bruce Springsteen | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | “Better Be Good to Me,” Tina Turner | |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Purple Rain—Music From the Motion Picture, Prince and the Revolution | |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “Cinema,” Yes | |
| Best New Rhythm and Blues Song | “I Feel for You,” Prince, songwriter | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),” Billy Ocean | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “I Feel for You,” Chaka Khan | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Yah Mo B There,” James Ingram and Michael McDonald | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | Sound-System, Herbie Hancock | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance | Nothin' but the Blues, Joe Williams | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist | Hot House Flowers, Wynton Marsalis | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | “New York Scene,” Art Blakey | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | 88 Basie Street, Count Basie and His Orchestra | |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental | First Circle, Pat Metheny Group | |
| Best Country Song | “City of New Orleans,” Steve Goodman, songwriter | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “That's the Way Love Goes,” Merle Haggard | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “In My Dreams,” Emmylou Harris | |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Mama He's Crazy,” Judds | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Wheel Hoss,” Ricky Skaggs | |
| Best Gospel Performance, Male | Michael W. Smith, Michael W. Smith | |
| Best Gospel Performance, Female | “Angels,” Amy Grant | |
| Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group | “Keep the Flame Burning,” Debby Boone and Phil Driscoll | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male | “Always Remember,” Andrae Crouch | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female | Sailin', Shirley Caesar | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group | “Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love,” Shirley Caeser and Al Green | |
| Best Latin Pop Performance | Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi Corazón), Placido Domingo | |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance | Palo Pa Rumba, Eddie Palmieri | |
| Best Mexican/American Performance | “Me Gustas Tal Como Eres,” Sheena Easton and Luis Miguel | |
| Best Inspirational Performance | “Forgive Me,” Donna Summer | |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording | Blues Explosion, John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor and the Blues Machine, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson and J.B. Hutto and the New Hawks (Atlantic) | |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording | Elizabeth Cotten Live!, Elizabeth Cotten (Arhoolie) | |
| Best Reggae Recording | Anthem, Black Uhuru (Island) | |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental | “Grace” (Gymnastics Theme), Quincy Jones and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “Hard Habit to Break,” David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock, arrangers | |
| Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices | “Automatic,” Pointer Sisters, arrangers | |
| Best Instrumental Composition (tie) | “The Natural,” Randy Newman, composer | |
| “Olympic Fanfare and Theme,” John Williams, composer | ||
| Best Cast Show Album | Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist (RCA) | |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Purple Rain, Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa and Wendy, songwriters (Warner Bros.) | |
| Best New Classical Composition | Antony and Cleopatra, Samuel Barber, composer | |
| Best Classical Album | Amadeus (Original Soundrack), Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Choristers of Westminster Abbey (Fantasy) | |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording | Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100, Leonard Slatkin conducting Saint Louis Symphony (RCA) | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | Beethoven, The Late String Quartets, Juilliard String Quartet | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter, Wynton Marsalis and Edita Gruberova; Raymond Leppard conducting English Chamber Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Yo-Yo Ma | |
| Best Opera Recording | Bizet, Carmen (Original Soundtrack), Lorin Maazel conducting Orchestre National de France; Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France; solos: Johnson, Esham, Domingo and Raimondi (Erato) | |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Brahms, A German Requiem, James Levine conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director, Chicago Symphony Chorus | |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Ravel, Songs of Maurice Ravel, Jessye Norman, Jose Van Dam and Heather Harper; Pierre Boulez conducting the Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and BBC Symphony Orchestra | |
| Best Comedy Recording | Eat It, “Weird Al” Yankovic (Rock and Roll) | |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording | The Words of Gandhi, Ben Kingsley (Caedmon) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (Columbia) | |
| Best Album Package | She's So Unusual, Janet Perr, art director (Portrait/CBS) | |
| Best Album Notes | Big Band Jazz, Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams, songwriters (Smithsonian) | |
| Best Historical Album | Big Band Jazz, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others (Smithsonian) | |
| Best Video, Short Form | “David Bowie,” David Bowie | |
| Best Video Album | Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, Michael Jackson (Vestron Music Video) | |
| Producers of the Year (Non-Classical) (tie) | David Foster | |
| Lionel Richie and James Anthony Carmichael | ||
| Classical Producer of the Year | Steven Epstein |
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