1982 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Rosanna,” Toto |
| Album of the Year | Toto IV, Toto (Columbia) |
| Song of the Year | “Always on My Mind,” Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, songwriters |
| Best New Artist | Men at Work |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Truly,” Lionel Richie |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” Melissa Manchester |
| Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Up Where We Belong,” Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “Chariots of Fire Theme” (dance version), Ernie Watts |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | “Hurts So Good,” John Cougar |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | “Shadows of the Night,” Pat Benatar |
| Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Eye of the Tiger,” Survivor |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “D.N.A.,” A Flock of Seagulls |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Turn Your Love Around,” Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather and Bill Champlin, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “Sexual Healing,” Marvin Gaye |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, Female | “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going,” Jennifer Holliday |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal (tie) | “Let It Whip,” Dazz Band |
| “Wanna Be With You,” Earth, Wind and Fire | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “Sexual Healing,” Marvin Gaye |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male | An Evening With George Shearing and Mel Tormé, Mel Tormé |
| Best Vocal Jazz Performance, Female | Gershwin Livel, Sarah Vaughan |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group | “Route 66,” Manhattan Transfer |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist | We Want Miles, Miles Davis |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | “More” Live, Phil Woods Quartet |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | Warm Breeze, Count Basie and His Orchestra |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental | Offramp, Pat Metheny Group |
| Best Country Song | “Always on My Mind,” Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, songwriters |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | “Always on My Mind,” Willie Nelson |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Break It to Me Gently,” Juice Newton |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Mountain Music, Alabama |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | “Alabama Jubilee,” Roy Clark |
| Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary | Age to Age, Amy Grant |
| Best Gospel Performance, Traditional | I'm Following You, Blackwood Brothers |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary | Higher Plane, Al Green |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional | Precious Lord, Al Green |
| Best Latin Recording | Machito and His Salsa Big Band '82, Machito (Timeless) |
| Best Inspirational Performance | He Set My Life to Music, Barbara Mandrell |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording | Alright Again, Clarence Gatemouth Brown (Rounder) |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording | Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band on Tour, Queen Ida (GNR/Crescendo) |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording | “Flying,” John Williams, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “Rosanna,” Jerry Hey, David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, arrangers |
| Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices | “Rosanna,” David Paich, arranger |
| Best Instrumental Composition | “Flying” (Theme From E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), John Williams, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album | Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger, composer; Tom Eyen, lyricist (Geffen/Warner Bros.) |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | E.T. the Extra-Terrestial, John Williams, composer (MCA) |
| Best Classical Album | Bach, The Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould (CBS) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Recording | Mahler, Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, James Levine conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra (RCA) |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | Brahms, The Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, Richard Stoltzman and Richard Goode |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Elgar, Concerto for Violin in B Minor, Itzhak Perlman; Daniel Barenboim conducting Chicago Symphony |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Bach, The Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould |
| Best Opera Recording | Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Pierre Boulez conducting Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; solos: Jones, Altmeyer, Wenkel, Hofmann, Jung, Jerusalem, Zednik, Mclntrye, Salminen and Becht (Philips) |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, chorus director, Chicago Symphony Chorus |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Leontyne Price Sings Verdi, Leontyne Price; Zubin Mehta conducting Israel Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Best Comedy Recording | Live on the Sunset Strip, Richard Pryor (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording | Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record (Columbia) |
| Best Recording for Children | In Harmony 2, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Kenny Loggins, Carly and Lucy Simon, Teddy Pendergrass, Crystal Gayle, Lou Rawls, Deniece Williams, Janis Ian and Dr. John (CBS) |
| Best Album Package | Get Closer, Kosh and Ron Larson, art directors (Elektra/Asylum) |
| Best Album Notes | Bunny Berigan (Giants of Jazz), John Chilton and Richard Sudhalter, art directors (Time Life) |
| Best Historical Album | The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions vols. 1, 2 and 3 (RCA) |
| Video of the Year | “Olivia Physical,” Olivia Newton-John |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) | Toto |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Robert Woods |
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