Giải Grammy lần thứ 54 được tổ chức vào ngày 12 tháng 2 năm 2012 tại Trung tâm Staples , thành phố Los Angeles , California tại Mĩ . LL Cool J là người dẫn chương trình. Các đề cử được lên danh sách ngày 30 tháng 11 năm 2011, trong đó Kanye West có số lượng đề cử nhiều nhất, 7 đề cử. Sau đó là Adele , Bruno Mars và Foo Fighters với 6 đề cử. Skrillex , Lil Wayne và Radiohead có 5 đề cử.
Trước lễ trao giải, Whitney Houston đã qua đời đêm trước đó, do vậy Jennifer Hudson đã biểu diễn ca khúc "I Will Always Love You " thay cho Whitney.[ 1] Adele, là nghệ sĩ thắng lớn tại lễ trao giải, thắng 6/6 đề cử, ngang bằng với kỉ lục Beyoncé nắm giữ.[ 2] [ 3] Foo Fighters nhận được 4 giải và Kayne West, nhận được 5 giải.
Giải Grammy lần này thu hút tới hơn 39,9 triệu người xem, cao nhất trong lịch sử Grammy từ sau năm 1984 (43,8 triệu người xem) và cao hơn 50% so với giải Grammy năm 2011.[ 4]
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Maceo Parker was scheduled to pay tribute to Clarence Clemons following the montage of those that had died in 2011 although his tribute was dropped in the 24 hours leading up to the awards show to make room for the Jennifer Hudson tribute to Whitney Houston.[ 6]
Tên người chiến thắng được in đậm .[ 7]
Thu âm của năm
Album của năm
21 – Adele
Ryan Tedder , Jim Abbiss , Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth , Rick Rubin , Fraser T Smith & Dan Wilson , producers; Jim Abbiss, Philip Allen, Beatriz Artola, Ian Dowling, Tom Elmhirst , Greg Fidelman , Dan Parry , Steve Price , Mark Rankin , Andrew Scheps, Fraser T Smith & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
Wasting Light – Foo Fighters
Butch Vig , producer; James Brown & Alan Moulder , engineers/mixers; Joe LaPorta & Emily Lazar, mastering engineers
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Paul Blair, DJ Snake , Fernando Garibay , Lady Gaga, Robert John "Mutt" Lange , Jeppe Laursen , RedOne & Clinton Sparks , producers; Fernando Garibay, Lady Gaga, Bill Malina, Trevor Muzzy, RedOne, Dave Russell, Justin Shirley Smith, Horace Ward & Tom Ware, engineers/mixers; Gene Grimaldi, mastering engineer
Doo-Wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars
Loud – Rihanna
Drake , Eminem & Nicki Minaj , featured artists; Ester Dean , Alex da Kid , Kuk Harrell , Mel & Mus , Awesome Jones, Makeba Riddick , The Runners , Sham, Soundz , Stargate , Chris "Tricky" Stewart , Sandy Vee & Willy Will , producers; Ariel Chobaz, Cary Clark, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Alex da Kid, Josh Gudwin, Kuk Harrell, Jaycen Joshua , Manny Marroquin , Dana Nielsen, Chad "C-Note" Roper, Noah "40" Shebib , Corey Shoemaker, Jay Stevenson, Mike Strange, Phil Tan , Brian "B-Luv" Thomas, Marcos Tovar, Sandy Vee, Jeff "Supa Jeff" Villanueva, Miles Walker & Andrew Wuepper, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer
Bài hát của năm
Nghệ sĩ mới xuất sắc nhất
Trình diễn Solo giọng Pop xuất sắc nhất
Trình diễn Song ca/ Nhóm nhạc Pop xuất sắc nhất
Best Pop Instrumental Album
Album giọng Pop xuất sắc nhất
Thu âm nhạc dance xuất sắc nhất
Sonny Moore, producer & mixer
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Trình diễn Rock xuất sắc nhất
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Bài hát Rock hay nhất
Album Rock xuất sắc nhất
Album Alternative xuất sắc nhất
Best R&B Performance
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Best R&B Song
Best R&B Album
Best Rap Performance
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Best Rap Song
Best Rap Album
Best Country Solo Performance
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Best Country Song
Best Country Album
Best New Age Album
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance
Best Gospel Song
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song
Best Gospel Album
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album
Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album
Best Banda or Norteño Album
Best Tropical Latin Album
Best Americana Album
Best Bluegrass Album
Best Blues Album
Best Folk Album
Best Regional Roots Music Album
Best Reggae Album
Best World Music Album
Best Children's Album
All About Bullies ... Big and Small – Various Artists Producers Steve Pullara, Jim Cravero, Pat Robinson, Kevin Mackie and Gloria Domina.
Are We There Yet? – The Papa Hugs Band
Fitness Rock & Roll – Miss Amy
GulfAlive – The Banana Plant
I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow – Various Artists
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)
Best Comedy Album
Best Musical Theater Album
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Best Song Written for Visual Media
Best Instrumental Composition
"Life in Eleven "
"Falling Men"
John Hollenbeck , composer (John Hollenbeck, Daniel Yvinec & Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ))
"Hunting Wabbits 3 (Get Off My Lawn)"
"I Talk to the Trees"
"Timeline "
Best Instrumental Arrangement
"Rhapsody in Blue"
"All or Nothing at All"
"In the Beginning"
"Nasty Dance"
"Song Without Words"
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Best Recording Package
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Best Album Notes
Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as Recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
Adam Machado, album notes writer (Various Artists)
The Bang Years 1966–1968
The Bristol Sessions, 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music
Ted Olson & Tony Russell, album notes writers (Various Artists)
Complete Mythology
The Music City Story: Street Corner Doo Wop, Raw R&B and Soulful Sounds from Berkeley, California 1950–75
Alec Palao, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Best Historical Album
Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)
Paul McCartney , compilation producer; Sam Okell & Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (Paul McCartney & Wings )
The Bristol Sessions, 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music
Christopher C. King & Ted Olson, compilation producers; Christopher C. King & Chris Zwarg, mastering engineers (Various Artists)
Complete Mythology
Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton, mastering engineer (Syl Johnson )
Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as Recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
Chris Strachwitz , compilation producer; Mike Cogan, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
Young Man with the Big Beat: The Complete '56 Elvis Presley Masters
Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, compilation producer; Vic Anesini, mastering engineer (Elvis Presley )
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Best Remixed Recording
Best Surround Sound Album
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
Elliot Scheiner , surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig , surround mastering engineer; Bill Levenson & Elliot Scheiner , surround producers (Derek and the Dominos )
An Evening with Dave Grusin
Frank Filipetti & Eric Schilling, surround mix engineers; Frank Filipetti, surround mastering engineer; Phil Ramone, surround producer (Various Artists)
Grace for Drowning
Steven Wilson , surround mix engineer; Paschal Byrne, surround mastering engineer; Steven Wilson, surround producer (Steven Wilson)
Kind
Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Kjetil Almenning, Ensemble 96 & Nidaros String Quartet)
Spohr: String Sextet in C Major, Op. 140 & Nonet in F Major, Op. 31
Andreas Spreer, surround mix engineer; Robin Schmidt & Andreas Spreer, surround mastering engineer; Andreas Spreer, surround producer (Camerata Freden)
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra )
Glazunov: Complete Concertos
Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music From Slide
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Weinberg: Symphony No. 3 & Suite No. 4 From 'The Golden Key'
Producer of the Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble)
Capricho Latino (Rachel Barton Pine)
85th Birthday Celebration (Claude Frank)
Insects & Paper Airplanes – Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet & Benjamin Hochman)
Midnight Frolic – The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
Notable Women – Trios by Today's Female Composers (Lincoln Trio)
The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1 – String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich & His Contemporaries (Pacifica Quartet)
Speak! (Anthony De Mare)
State of the Art – The American Brass Quintet at 50 (The American Brass Quintet)
Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion)
Winging It – Piano Music of John Corigliano (Ursula Oppens )
Blanton Alspaugh
Aldridge: Elmer Gantry (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (Peter Takács)
Osterfield: Rocky Streams (Paul Osterfield, Todd Waldecker & Various Artists)
Manfred Eicher
Bach: Concertos & Sinfonias for Oboe; Ich Hatte Viel Bekümmernis (Heinz Holliger, Eric Höbarth & Camerata Bern)
Hymns & Prayers (Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica)
Manto & Madrigals (Thomas Zehetmair & Ruth Killius)
Songs of Ascension (Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Todd Reynolds Quartet, The M6 & Montclair State University Singers)
Tchaikovsky/Kissine: Piano Trios (Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite & Khatia Buniatishvili)
A Worcester Ladymass (Trio Mediaeval)
David Frost
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass)
Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide (Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey & Eighth Blackbird)
Prayers & Alleluias (Kenneth Dake)
Sharon Isbin & Friends – Guitar Passions (Sharon Isbin & Various Artists)
Peter Rutenberg
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Patrick Dupré Quigley , James K. Bass, Seraphic Fire & Professional Choral Institute)
The Vanishing Nordic Chorale (Philip Spray & Musik Ekklesia)
Best Orchestral Performance
"Brahms: Symphony No. 4"
Gustavo Dudamel , conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic )
"Bowen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2"
"Haydn: Symphonies 104, 88 & 101"
"Henze: Symphonies Nos. 3–5"
Martinu: The 6 Symphonies
Best Opera Recording
"Adams: Doctor Atomic"
Alan Gilbert , conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley , Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
"Britten: Billy Budd"
Mark Elder, conductor; John Mark Ainsley, Phillip Ens, Jacques Imbrailo, Darren Jeffery , Iain Paterson & Matthew Rose; James Whitbourn, producer (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Glyndebourne Chorus)
"Rautavaara: Kaivos"
Hannu Lintu, conductor; Jaakko Kortekangas, Hannu Niemelä, Johanna Rusanen-Kartano & Mati Turi; Seppo Siirala, producer (Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra; Kaivos Chorus)
"Verdi: La Traviata"
Antonio Pappano, conductor; Joseph Calleja, Renée Fleming & Thomas Hampson; James Whitbourn, producer (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)
"Vivaldi: Ercole Sul Termodonte"
Fabio Biondi, conductor; Romina Basso, Patrizia Ciofi, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Vivica Genaux, Philippe Jaroussky, Topi Lehtipuu & Rolando Villazón; Daniel Zalay, producer (Europa Galante; Coro Da Camera Santa Cecilia Di Borgo San Lorenzo)
Best Choral Performance
"Light & Gold"
Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
"Beyond All Mortal Dreams – American A Cappella"
Stephen Layton, conductor (Choir of Trinity College Cambridge)
"Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45"
Patrick Dupré Quigley , conductor; James K. Bass, chorus master (Justin Blackwell, Scott Allen Jarrett, Paul Max Tipton & Teresa Wakim; Professional Choral Institute & Seraphic Fire )
"Kind"
Kjetil Almenning, conductor (Nidaros String Quartet; Ensemble 96)
"The Natural World of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen"
Paul Hillier, conductor (Ars Nova Copenhagen)
Best Small Ensemble Performance
"Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide" – Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird
"Frank: Hilos" – Gabriela Lena Frank; ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
"The Kingdoms of Castille – Richard Savino, conductor; El Mundo
"A Seraphic Fire Christmas" – Patrick Dupré Quigley , conductor; Seraphic Fire
"Sound the Bells!" – The Bay Brass
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
"Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra"
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony)
"Chinese Recorder Concertos – East Meets West"
Lan Shui, conductor; Michala Petri (Copenhagen Philharmonic)
"Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
Claudio Abbado, Yuja Wang (Mahler Chamber Orchestra)
"Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4"
Leif Ove Andsnes, Antonio Pappano (London Symphony Orchestra)
"Winging It – Piano Music of John Corigliano"
Best Classical Vocal Solo
"Diva Divo"
Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon; Choeur De L'Opéra National De Lyon)
"Grieg/Thommessen: Veslemøy Synsk"
Marianne Beate Kielland (Nils Anders Mortensen)
"Handel: Cleopatra"
Natalie Dessay (Emmanuelle Haïm; Le Concert D'Astrée)
"Purcell: O Solitude"
"Three Baroque Tenors"
Ian Bostridge (Bernard Labadie; Mark Bennett, Andrew Clarke, Sophie Daneman, Alberto Grazzi, Jonathan Gunthorpe, Benjamin Hulett & Madeline Shaw; The English Concert)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
"Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry " – Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein
"Crumb, George: The Ghosts of Alhambra" – George Crumb
"Friedman, Jefferson: String Quartet No. 3" – Jefferson Friedman
"Mackey, Steven: Lonely Motel – Music From Slide" – Steven Mackey
"Ruders, Poul: Piano Concerto No. 2" – Poul Ruders
Best Short Form Music Video
Best Long Form Music Video
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth – Foo Fighters
James Moll, video director; James Moll & Nigel Sinclair, video producers
I Am... World Tour – Beyoncé
Beyoncé, Ed Burke & Frank Gatson, Jr., video directors; Beyoncé & Camille Yorrick, video producers
Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon – Kings of Leon
Stephen C. Mitchell, video director; Casey McGrath, video producer
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest – A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Rapaport , video director; Robert Benavides, Debra Koffler, Eric Matthies, Frank Mele, Edward Parks & A Tribe Called Quest, video producers
Nine Types of Light – TV on the Radio
Nhiều đề cử nhất:
Bảy: Kanye West
Sáu: Adele , Bruno Mars , Foo Fighters
Năm: Lil Wayne , Radiohead , Skrillex
Bốn: Bon Iver , Drake , Jay-Z , Mumford & Sons , Nicki Minaj , Rihanna
Ba: Blake Shelton , Brandon Heath , Cee Lo Green , Chris Brown , Chris Tomlin , Coldplay , Deadmau5 , Fergie , Jason Aldean , Kelly Price , Lady Gaga , Ledisi , Lupe Fiasco , Taylor Swift , Eminem
Hai: Alexandre Desplat , Beyoncé , Charlie Wilson , Christina Aguilera , Daft Punk , David Guetta , Dr. Dre , Foster the People , Gillian Welch , Katy Perry , Kenny Chesney , Kirk Franklin , Kings of Leon , Marsha Ambrosius , Mary Mary , Robyn , R. Kelly , Seth MacFarlane , Skylar Grey , Thompson Square , The Civil Wars , Tony Bennett , "Weird Al" Yankovic , Wiz Khalifa , Afrojack
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