Grammy Awards of 2001

The 43rd Grammy Awards were held in 2001. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.

• Record of the Year
  • Richard Rainey, Steve Lillywhite (engineers/mixers), Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois (producers) & U2 for "Beautiful Day" performed by U2

• Album of the Year
  • Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols (engineers/mixers), Donald Fagen & Walter Becker (producers) for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan

• Song of the Year
  • U2 for "Beautiful Day"

• Best New Artist
  • Shelby Lynne

Alternative

• Best Alternative Music Performance
  • Nigel Godrich & Radiohead (producers) for Kid A performed by Radiohead

Blues

• Best Traditional Blues Album or Recording
  • Simon Climie (producer) for Riding With The King performed by B.B. King & Eric Clapton
• Best Contemporary Blues Album or Recording
  • Tony Braunagel (producer) for Shoutin' In Key performed by Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band

Children's

• Best Musical Album for Children
  • Joseph Miskulin (engineer/mixer & producer), Brent Truitt & Dan Rudin (engineers/mixers) for Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky performed by Riders In The Sky
• Best Spoken Word Album for Children
  • David Rapkin (producer) & Jim Dale for Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (J. K. Rowling) performed by Jim Dale

Classical

• Best Classical Album
  • Da-Hong Seetoo & Max Wilcox (engineers) for Shostakovich: The String Quartets performed by the Emerson String Quartet
• Best Classical Orchestral Performance
  • Stephen Johns (producer) & the Berliner Philharmonic for Mahler: Sym. No. 10 performed by the Berliner Philharmonicconducted by Simon Rattle
• Best Opera Recording
  • Orchestre De L'Opera Nationale De Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust conducted by Kent Nagano
• Best Choral Performance, Classical
  • Karen Wilson (producer) & the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra for Penderecki: Credo performed by the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra conducted by Helmuth Rilling
• Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra)
  • Grace Row (producer) & the London Philharmonic for Maw: Violin Concerto performed by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington
• Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra)
  • Jens Schünemann (engineer) & Tobias Lehmann (producer) for Dreams Of A World (Works Of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipo, Duarte, Etc.) performed by Sharon Isbin
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • Da-Hong Seetoo & Max Wilcox (producers) for Shostakovich: The String Quartets performed by the Emerson String Quartet
• Best Classical Vocal Performance
  • Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) & Cecilia Bartoli for The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, Etc.) performed by Cecilia Bartoli
• Best Classical Contemporary Composition
  • George Crumb (composer) for "Crumb: Star-Child" performed by Thomas Conlin
• Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor)
  • Wolf-Dieter Karwatky (engineer) & Christian Gausch (producer) for Shadow Dances (Stravinsky Miniatures - Tango; Suite No. 1; Octet, Etc.) performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• Best Classical Crossover Album
  • Steven Epstein (producer) for Appalachian Journey (1B; Misty Moonlight Waltz; Indecision, Etc.) performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor & Various Artists

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition (other than Jazz)
  • John Williams for "Theme From Angela's Ashes"
• Best Instrumental Composition Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
  • Bill Bernstein & Thomas Newman (producers) for American Beauty performed by Thomas Newman
• Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
  • Randy Newman (songwriter) for "When She Loved Me" (From Toy Story 2) performed by Sarah McLachlan
• Best Instrumental Arrangement
  • Chick Corea for "Spain For Sextet & Orchestra"
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
  • Vince Mendoza (arranger) for "Both Sides Now" performed by Joni Mitchell

Country

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance
  • Faith Hill for "Breathe"
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance
  • Johnny Cash for "Solitary Man"
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Asleep At The Wheel for "Cherokee Maiden"
• Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
  • Faith Hill & Tim McGraw for "Let's Make Love"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
  • Alison Brown & Béla Fleck for "Leaving Cottondale"
• Best Country Song
  • Mark D. Sanders & Tia Sillers (songwriters) for "I Hope You Dance" performed by Lee Ann Womack
• Best Country Album
  • Julian King, Mike Shipley (engineers/mixers), Byron Gallimore & Faith Hill (producers) for Breathe peformed by Faith Hill
• Best Bluegrass Album
  • Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer), Steve Buckingham (producer) & Dolly Parton for The Grass Is Blue performed by Dolly Parton

Film/TV/Media

• Best Soundtrack Album
  • Danny Bramson (producer) for Almost Famous performed by Various Artists

Folk

• Best Traditional Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
  • Dave Alvin for Public Domain - Songs From The Wild Land
• Best Contemporary Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Contemporary Folk Recording
  • Jim Watts (engineer) & Malcolm Burn (engineer & producer) for Red Dirt Girl performed by Emmylou Harris
• Best Native American Music Album
  • Douglas Spotted Eagle (engineer/mixer) & Tom Bee (producer) for Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow performed by Various Artists

Gospel

• Best Rock Gospel Album incl. Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • J.R. McNeely (engineer/mixer), Dino Elefante & John Elefante (producers) for Double Take performed by Petra
• Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • Rich Hasal (engineer/mixer) & Dennis Herring (producer) for If I Left The Zoo performed by Jars of Clay
• Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
  • Ricky Skaggs (producer) for Soldier Of The Cross performed by Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
  • Bubba Smith, Michael E. Mathis & Shirley Caesar (producers) for You Can Make It performed by Shirley Caesar
• Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
  • Warryn 'Baby Dubb' Campbell (producer) & Mary Mary for Thankful performed by Mary Mary
• Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
  • Carol Cymbala & Oliver Wells (producers) for Live - God Is Working performed by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Historical

• Best Historical Album
  • Phil Schaap, Seth Foster, Tom Ruff & Woody Pornpitaksuk (engineers) for Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings performed by Louis Armstrong

Jazz

• Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental - Also cont. Jazz Performance Vocal or Instrumental
  • Richard Battaglia, Robert Battaglia (engineers/mixers) & Béla Fleck (engineer/mixer & producer) for Outbound performed by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
• Best Jazz Vocal Album
  • George Duke (producer) for In The Moment - Live In Concert performed by Dianne Reeves
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
  • Pat Metheny for "(Go) Get It"
• Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group
  • Rob 'Wacko' Hunter (engineer/mixer & producer), Branford Marsalis (producer) & the Branford Marsalis Quartet for Contemporary Jazz performed by the Branford Marsalis Quartet
• Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
  • Joe Lovano for 52nd Street Themes
• Best Latin Jazz Performance
  • Jon Fausty (engineer/mixer) for Live At The Village Vanguard performed by Chucho Valdés

Latin

• Best Latin Pop Performance
  • Shakira & Tim Mitchell (producers) for Shakira - MTV Unplugged performed by Shakira
• Best Tropical Latin Performance
  • Freddy Piñero Jr, Gustavo Celis, Javier Garza, Mauricio Guerrero, Scott Canto, Sebastián Krys (engineers), Emilio Estefan, George Noriega, Robert Blades (producers) & Gloria Estefan for Alma Caribeña performed by Gloria Estefan
• Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
  • Carlos Ceballos (engineer/mixer) & Pepe Aguilar (producer) for Por Una Mujer Bonita performed by Pepe Aguilar
• Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance
  • Humberto Gatica (producer) for Uno performed by La Ley
• Best Tejano Music Performance
  • Edward Pérez, Greg García, (engineers), Freddie Martínez & Hugo Guerrero (engineers & producers) for ¿Qué Es Música Tejana? performed by The Legends
• Best Salsa Performance
  • Tito Puente & Eddie Palmieri for Masterpiece/Obra Maestra
• Best Merengue Performance
  • Olga Tañón for Olga Viva, Viva Olga

Musical Show

• Best Musical Show Album
  • Frank Filipetti (engineer/mixer), Guy Babylon & Paul Bogaev (producers) for Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida performed by the Original Broadway Cast

Music Video

• Best Music Video, Short Form
  • Tina Nakane (producer) for "Learn To Fly" performed by Foo Fighters
• Best Music Video, Long Form
  • Andrew Solt, Greg Vines, Leslie Tong & Yoko Ono (producers) for Gimme Some Truth - The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine Album (John Lennon)

New Age

• Best New Age Album
  • Gary Barlough, Peter R. Kelsey (engineers/mixers) & Kitaro for Thinking Of You performed by Kitaro

Packaging and Notes

• Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography
  • Kevin Reagan (art director) for Music performed by Madonna
• Best Recording Package - Boxed
  • Arnold Levine & Frank Harkins (art directors) for Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis & John Coltrane
• Best Album Notes
  • Bob Blumenthal (notes writer) for Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Polka

• Best Polka Album
  • Tom Pick (producer) for Touched By A Polka performed by Jimmy Sturr

Pop

• Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
  • Macy Gray for "I Try"
• Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
  • Sting for "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)"
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Steely Dan for "Cousin Dupree"
• Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
  • B.B. King & Dr. John for "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)"
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  • Brian Setzer for "Caravan" performed by the Brian Setzer Orchestra
• Best Pop Vocal Album
  • Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols (engineers/mixers), Donald Fagen & Walter Becker (producers) for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan
• Best Dance Recording
  • Michael Mangini, Steve Greenberg (producers & mixers) & Baha Men for "Who Let The Dogs Out" performed by Baha Men
  • Best Pop Instrumental Album
  • Joe Jackson for Symphony No. 1

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett & Roger Nichols (engineers) for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan
• Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
  • Dr. Dre
• Best Classical Engineered Recording
  • John Eargle (engineer) for Dvorák: Requiem, Op. 89; Sym. No. 9, Op. 95 "From the New World" conducted by Zdenek Macal
• Classical Producer Of The Year
  • Steven Epstein
• Remixer Of The Year
  • Hex Hector

R&B

• Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
  • Toni Braxton for "He Wasn't Man Enough"
• Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
  • D'Angelo for "Untitled (How Does It Feel)"
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • Destiny's Child for "Say My Name"
• Best R&B Song
  • Fred Jerkins III, Kelendria Rowland, LaShawn Daniels, LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett & Rodney Jerkins (songwriters) for "Say My Name" performed by Destiny's Child
• Best R&B Album
  • D'Angelo for Voodoo
• Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
  • The Temptations for Ear-Resistible

Rap

• Best Rap Solo Performance
  • Eminem for "The Real Slim Shady"
• Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
  • Eminem for "Forgot About Dre" performed by Dr. Dre Featuring Eminem,
• Best Rap Album
  • Dr. Dre, Richard Huredia (engineers/mixers) & Eminem (producer) for The Marshall Mathers LP performed by Eminem

Reggae

• Best Reggae Album
  • Beenie Man for Art And Life

Rock

• Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
  • Sheryl Crow for "There Goes The Neighborhood"
• Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
  • Lenny Kravitz for "Again"
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  • U2 for "Beautiful Day"
• Best Hard Rock Performance
  • Rage Against The Machine for "Guerrilla Radio"
• Best Metal Performance
  • Deftones for "Elite"
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance
  • San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for "The Call Of Ktulu" performed by Metallica with Michael Kamen conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• Best Rock Song
  • Scott Stapp (songwriter) for "With Arms Wide Open" performed by Creed
• Best Rock Album
  • Adam Kasper & Foo Fighters (producers) for There Is Nothing Left To Lose performed by Foo Fighters

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
  • John Runnette, Rick Harris (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure Of A Man performed by Sidney Poitier
• Best Spoken Comedy Album
  • John Runnette (producer) & George Carlin for Braindroppings performed by George Carlin

Trad Pop

• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
  • Larry Klein (producer) for Both Sides Now performed by Joni Mitchell

World

• Best World Music Album
  • Antônio Moogie Canàzio & Caetano Veloso (producers) for João Voz E Violão performed by Joao Gilberto

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