1986 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Higher Love,” Steve Winwood |
| Album of the Year | Graceland, Paul Simon (Warner Bros.) |
| Song of the Year | “That's What Friends Are For,” Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, songwriters |
| Best New Artist | Bruce Hornsby and the Range |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Higher Love,” Steve Winwood |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | The Broadway Album, Barbra Streisand |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “That's What Friends Are For,” Dionne Warwick and Friends Featuring Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | “Top Gun Anthem,” Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | “Addicted to Love,” Robert Palmer |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | “Back Where You Started,” Tina Turner |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Missionary Man,” Eurythmics |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | “Peter Gunn,” Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Sweet Love,” Anita Baker, Louis A. Johnson and Gary Bias, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Living in America,” James Brown |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | Rapture, Anita Baker |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Kiss,” Prince and the Revolution |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | “And You Know That,” Yellowjackets |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male | “Round Midnight,” Bobby McFerrin |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female | Timeless, Diane Schuur |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group | Free Fall, 2 + 2 Plus (Clare Fischer and His Latin Jazz Sextet) |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist | Tutu, Miles Davis |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | J Mood, Wynton Marsalis |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen, The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental | Double Vision, Bob James and David Sanborn |
| Best Country Song | “Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days),” Jamie O'Hara, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | Lost in the Fifties Tonight, Ronnie Milsap |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Whoever's in New England,” Reba McEntire |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days),” Judds |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | “Raisin' the Dickens,” Ricky Skaggs |
| Best Gospel Performance, Male | Triumph, Philip Bailey |
| Best Gospel Performance, Female | Morning Like This, Sandi Patti |
| Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus | “They Say,” Sandi Patti and Deniece Williams |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male | “Going Away,” Al Green |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female | “I Surrender All,” Deniece Williams |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus | Let My People Go, Winans |
| Best Latin Pop Performance | “Lelolai,” José Feliciano |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance | Escenas, Ruben Blades |
| Best Mexican/American Performance | Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, Flaco Jimenez |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording | Showdown!, Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland (Alligator) |
| Best Traditional Folk Recording | Riding the Midnight Train, Doc Watson (Sugar Hill) |
| Best Contemporary Folk Recording | Tribute to Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie, John Hartford, Richie Havens, Bonnie Koloc, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Prine and others (Red Pajamas) |
| Best Reggae Recording | Babylon the Bandit, Steel Pulse (Elektra) |
| Best New Age Recording | Down to the Moon, Andreas Vollenweider (FM/CBS) |
| Best Polka Recording (tie) | Another Polka Celebration, Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones (Bel Aire) |
| I Remember Warsaw, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) | |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental | “Suite Memories,” Patrick Williams, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “Somewhere,” David Foster, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition | Out of Africa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), John Barry, composer |
| Best Musical Cast Show Album | Follies in Concert (RCA) |
| Best Classical Album | Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York 1985, Vladimir Horowitz (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Contemporary Composition | Symphony No. 3, Witold Lutoslawski, composer |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording | Liszt, A Faust Symphony, Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance, Instrumental or Vocal | Beethoven, Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Major and Variations, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra) | Horowitz, The Studio Recordings, New York 1985, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording | Bernstein, Candide, John Mauceri conducting New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra; solos: Mills, Eisler, Lankston, Castle, Reeve, Harrold, Billings and Clement (New World) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Orff, Carmina Burana, James Levine conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Mozart, Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart, Kathleen Battle |
| Best Comedy Recording | Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand, Bill Cosby (Geffen) |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording | Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson and Chips Moman (America Record Corp.) |
| Best Recording for Children | The Alphabet, Sesame Street Muppets; Jim Henson (Golden Books) |
| Best Album Package | Tutu, Eiko Ishioka, art director (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album Notes | The Voice, the Columbia Years 1943–1952, Gary Giddins, Wilfrid Sheed, Jonathan Schwartz, Murray Kempton, Andrew Sarris, Stephen Holden and Frank Conroy, annotators (Columbia/CBS) |
| Best Historical Album | Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947–1974 vols. 1–7, various artists (Atlantic) |
| Best Music Video, Short Form (Vhs) | “Dire Straits Brothers in Arms,” Dire Straits |
| Best Music Video, Short Form (Vhs) (beta) (disk) | “Bring on the Night,” Sting |
| Producers of the Year (Non-Classical) | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Thomas Frost |
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