1990 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Another Day in Paradise,” Phil Collins | |
| Album of the Year | Back on the Block, Quincy Jones (Qwest/Warner Bros.) | |
| Song of the Year | “From a Distance,” Julie Gold, songwriter | |
| Best New Artist | Mariah Carey | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Oh Pretty Woman,” Roy Orbison | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “Vision of Love,” Mariah Carey | |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “All My Life,” Linda Ronstadt with Aaron Neville | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “Twin Peaks Theme,” Angelo Badalamenti | |
| Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album | Beyond Belief, Petra (Dayspring/Word) | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | “Bad Love,” Eric Clapton | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | “Black Velvet,” Alannah Myles | |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Janie's Got a Gun,” Aerosmith | |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “D/FW,” Vaughan Brothers | |
| Best Hard Rock Performance | Time's Up, Living Colour | |
| Best Metal Performance | “Stone Cold Crazy,” Metallica | |
| Best Alternative Music Performance | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Sinead O'Connor | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “U Can't Touch This,” Rick James, Alonzo Miller and M.C. Hammer, songwriters | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Here and Now,” Luther Vandross | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | Compositions, Anita Baker | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “I'll Be Good to You,” Ray Charles and Chaka Khan | |
| Best Rap Solo Performance | “U Can't Touch This,” M.C. Hammer | |
| Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group | “Back on the Block,” Ice T, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Quincy D. III and Quincy Jones | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male | We Are in Love, Harry Connick, Jr. | |
| All That Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist | The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Oscar Peterson | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Oscar Peterson Trio | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | “Basie's Bag,” George Benson featuring the Count Basie Orchestra | |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance | “Birdland,” Quincy Jones | |
| Best Country Song | “Where've You Been,” Jon Vezner and Don Henry, songwriters | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “When I Call Your Name,” Vince Gill | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Where've You Been,” Kathy Mattea | |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Pickin' on Nashville, Kentucky Headhunters | |
| Best Country Vocal Collaboration | “Poor Boy Blues,” Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “So Soft, Your Goodbye,” Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler | |
| Best Bluegrass Recording | I've Got That Old Feeling, Alison Krauss (Rounder) | |
| Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album | Tramaine Hawkins Live, Tramaine Hawkins (Sparrow Corp.) | |
| Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album | So Much 2 Say, Take 6 (Reprise/Warner/Alliance) | |
| Best Pop Gospel Album | Another Time…Another Place, Sandi Patti (A&M/Word) | |
| Best Southern Gospel Album | The Great Exchange, Bruce Carroll (Word) | |
| Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus | Having Church, Rev. James Cleveland (Savoy) | |
| Best Latin Pop Performance | “Por Que Te Tengo Que Olvidar?,” José Feliciano | |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance | “Lambada Timbales,” Tito Puento | |
| Best Mexican/American Performance | “Soy de San Luis,” Texas Tornados | |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording | Live at San Quentin, B.B. King (MCA) | |
| Best Contemporary Blues Recording | Family Style, Vaughan Brothers (Epic Associated) | |
| Best Traditional Folk Recording | On Praying Ground, Doc Watson (Sugar Hill) | |
| Best Contemporary Folk Recording | Steady On, Shawn Colvin (Columbia/CBS) | |
| Best Reggae Recording | Time Will Tell—A Tribute to Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer (Shanachie) | |
| Best New Age Performance | Mark Isham, Mark Isham | |
| Best Polka Recording | When It's Polka Time at Your House, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) | |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental | “Birdland,” Quincy Jones, Ian Prince, Rod Temperton and Jerry Hey, arrangers | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “The Places You Find Love,” Jerry Hey, Glen Ballard, Clif Magness and Quincy Jones, arrangers | |
| Best Instrumental Composition | “Change of Heart” Pat Metheny, composer | |
| Best Musical Cast Show Album | Les Misèrables, The Complete Symphonic Recording (Relativity) | |
| Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Glory, James Horner, composer (Virgin) | |
| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | “Under the Sea” (From The Little Mermaid), Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, composers | |
| Best Contemporary Composition | Arias and Barcarolles, Leonard Bernstein, composer | |
| Best Classical Album | Ives, Symphony No. 2 and Three Short Works, Leonard Bernstein conducting New York Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon) | |
| Best Chamber Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance | Brahms, The Three Violin Sonatas, Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Daniel Barenboim, pianist | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1; Glazunov, Violin Concerto, Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Zubin Mehta conducting Israel Philharmonic | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | The Last Recording (Chopin, Haydn, Liszt and Wagner), Vladimir Horowitz | |
| Best Opera Recording | Wagner, Das Rheingold, James Levine conducting The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; solos: Morris, Ludwig, Jerusalem, Wlaschiha, Moll, Zednik and Rootering (Deutsche Grammophon) | |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Walton, Belshazzar's Feast; Bernstein, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis, Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance | Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti in Concert, José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, tenors; Zubin Mehta conducting Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Orchestra del teatro dell'Opera di Roma | |
| Best Comedy Recording | P.D.Q. Bach, Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities, Professor Peter Shickele (Telarc) | |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording | Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns (Simon and Schuster Audio) | |
| Best Recording for Children | The Little Mermaid—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, composers (Disneyland Records) | |
| Best Album Package | Days of Open Hand (Special Edition Hologram Digapack), Len Peltier, Jeffrey Gold and Suzanne Vega, art directors (A&M) | |
| Best Album Notes | Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Emarcy) | |
| Best Historical Album | Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Robert Johnson (Columbia/CBS) | |
| Best Music Video, Short Form | “Opposites Attract,” Paula Abdul | |
| Best Music Video, Long Form | “Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em the Movie,” M.C. Hammer | |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) | Quincy Jones | |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Adam Stern |
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