Ας δούμε τις σημαντικότερες κατηγορίες των 51ων Βραβείων Grammy και τους αντίστοιχους νικητές ανά κατηγορία

Record of the Year
"Please Read The Letter"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Album of the Year
"Raising Sand" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Song Of The Year
"Viva La Vida"- Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)

Best New Artist
Adele

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
"Chasing Pavements"
Adele

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
"Say"
John Mayer

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
"Viva La Vida"
Coldplay

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
"Rich Woman"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Best Pop Vocal Album
"Rockferry "
Duffy

Best Dance Recording
"Harder Better Faster Stronger"
Daft Punk

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
"Still Unforgettable"
Natalie Cole

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
"Gravity"
John Mayer

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
"Sex On Fire" — Kings Of Leon

Best Hard Rock Performance
"Wax Simulacra"
The Mars Volta
Best Metal Performance
"My Apocalypse"
Metallica

Best Rock Song
"Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

Best Rock Album
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Coldplay

Best Alternative Music Album
"In Rainbows"
Radiohead

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
"Superwoman"
Alicia Keys

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
"Miss Independent"
Ne-Yo

Best R&B Song
"Miss Independent"
M.S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen & S. Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo)

Best R&B Album
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson

Best Rap Solo Performance
"A Milli"
Lil Wayne
Best Rap Album
Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne

Best Country Song
Stay
Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland)

Best Country Album
Troubadour
George Strait

Best Latin Pop Album
"La Vida...Es Un Ratico"
Juanes

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
"Killing The Blues"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
"Juno"
(Various Artists)

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Rick Rubin

Producer Of The Year, Classical
David Frost

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
"Randy In Brasil "
Randy Brecker

Best Jazz Vocal Album
"Loverly"
Cassandra Wilson

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Consolers Of The Lonely
Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell & Jack White III, engineers (The Raconteurs)
[Third Man/Warner Bros.]

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
(A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.))
Rick Rubin
Death Magnetic (Metallica) (A)
Home Before Dark (Neil Diamond) (A)
Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy) (Ours) (A)
Seeing Things (Jakob Dylan) (A)
Weezer (Red Album) (Weezer) (A)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
Justice, remixers (MGMT)
Track from: Oracular Spectacular
[Columbia]

Best Surround Sound Album
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On Bald Mountain; Prelude To Khovanshchina
Michael Bishop, surround mix engineer; Michael Bishop, surround mastering engineer; Robert Woods, surround producer (Paavo Järvi & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)
[Telarc]