# Grammy Awards de 1985

A 27.ª cerimônia anual do Grammy Awards foi realizada em 26 de fevereiro de 1985, no Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, e foi transmitida ao vivo pela rede de televisão americana CBS. Eles reconheceram realizações de músicos do ano de 1984.

## Vencedores e indicados
### Geral

| Gravação do ano "What's Love Got To Do With It" – Tina Turner "Hard Habit to Break" – Chicago "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" – Cyndi Lauper "The Heart of Rock & Roll" – Huey Lewis and the News "Dancing in the Dark" – Bruce Springsteen | Álbum do ano Can't Slow Down – Lionel Richie She's So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper Purple Rain – Prince e The Revolution Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen Private Dancer – Tina Turner |
| Canção do ano "What's Love Got To Do With It" – Graham Lyle e Terry Britten "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" – Phil Collins "Hello" – Lionel Richie "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder "Time After Time" – Cyndi Lauper e Rob Hyman | Artista revelação Cyndi Lauper Sheila E. Frankie Goes to Hollywood Corey Hart The Judds |

### Blues

* Best Traditional Blues Album
* Blues Explosion – Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
* You've Got Me Loving You – Bobby Bland
* I'm in a Phone Booth, Baby – Albert King
* Kansas City Here I Come – Big Joe Turner
* Guitar Slinger – Johnny Winter

### Infantil

* Best Recording for Children
* Where the Sidewalk Ends – Ron Haffkine & Shel Silverstein
* Agapeland at Play with Holly Heart
* Flashbeagle
* Jim Henson's Muppets Present Fraggle Rock
* Kids' Praise! 4: Singsational Servants
* The Muppets Take Manhattan

### Clássica

| Best Orchestral Performance Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat – Jay David Saks, Leonard Slatkin & St. Louis Symphony | Best Classical Vocal Solo Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel – Pierre Boulez, Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Ensemble InterContemporain |
| Best Opera Recording Bizet: Carmen (Original Soundtrack) – Michel Glotz, Lorin Maazel, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, Choeur de Radio France e Maîtrise de Radio France & Orchestre National de France | Best Choral Performance Brahms: A German Requiem – James Levine, Margaret Hillis & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus |
| Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter – Raymond Leppard, Wynton Marsalis & English Chamber Orchestra | Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites – Yo-Yo Ma |
| Best Chamber Music Performance Beethoven: The Late String Quartets – Juilliard String Quartet | Best Classical Contemporary Composition Antony and Cleopatra – Samuel Barber & Christian Badea |
| Best Classical Album Amadeus (Original Soundtrack) – John Strauss, Neville Marriner, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey & Academy of St Martin in the Fields ||

### Comédia

* Best Comedy Album
* "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic
* Rappin' Rodney – Rodney Dangerfield
* Hurt Me Baby – Make Me Write Bad Checks! – Rick Dees
* The Three Faces of Al – Firesign Theatre
* Richard Pryor: Here and Now – Richard Pryor

### Composição/Arranjo

| Best Instrumental Composition "The Natural" – Randy Newman "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" – John Williams | Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" – Quincy Jones & Jeremy Lobbock |
| Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals "Hard Habit To Break" – David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock | Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices "Automatic" – Anita Pointer, June Pointer & Ruth Pointer |
| Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution Against All Odds – Phil Collins, Stevie Nicks, Peter Gabriel, Stuart Adamson, Michael Rutherford, Kid Creole, Michel Colombier, Larry Carlton Footloose – Bill Wolfer, Dean Pitchford, Kenny Loggins, Tom Snow, Sammy Hagar, Michael Gore, Eric Carmen, Jim Steinman Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr., Kevin O'Neal, Bobby Alessi, David Immer, Tom Bailey, Graham Russell, David Foster, Jay Graydon, Diane Warren, Mick Smiley, Elmer Bernstein Yentl – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman ||

### Country

| Best Female Country Vocal Performance "In My Dreams" – Emmylou Harris "Your Heart's Not in It" – Janie Fricke "The Sound of Goodbye" – Crystal Gayle Heart over Mind – Anne Murray "Tennessee Homesick Blues" – Dolly Parton | Best Male Country Vocal Performance "That's the Way Love Goes" – Merle Haggard "God Bless the USA" – Lee Greenwood "City of New Orleans" – Steve Goodman "Country Boy" – Ricky Skaggs "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" – Hank Williams Jr. |
| Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal "Mama He's Crazy" – The Judds If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) – Alabama "To Me" – Barbara Mandrell & Lee Greenwood "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" – Anne Murray & Dave Loggins As Time Goes By – Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias | Best Country Song "City of New Orleans" – Steve Goodman "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" – Hank Williams Jr. "Faithless Love" – J. D. Souther "God Bless the U.S.A." – Lee Greenwood "Mama He's Crazy" – Kenny O'Dell |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance "Ricky Skaggs" – Wheel Hoss ||

### Folk

* Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
* Elizabeth Cotten Live! – Elizabeth Cotten

### Gospel

| Best Gospel Performance, Female "Angels" – Amy Grant | Best Gospel Performance, Male Michael W. Smith – Michael W. Smith |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female Sailin' – Shirley Caesar | Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male "Always Remember" – Andraé Crouch |
| Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus "Keep The Flame Burning" – Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll | Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love" – Shirley Caesar & Al Green |
| Best Inspirational Performance "Forgive Me" – Donna Summer ||

### Histórico

* Best Historical Album
* Big Band Jazz – J. R. Taylor
* Cotton Club Stars – Bernard Brightman
* A Golden Celebration – Gregg Geller & Joan Deary
* History Speaks: Franklin Delano Roosevelt – George Spitzer & Pat Sweeting
* World's First Entertainment Recordings 1889–1896 – George Garabedian

### Jazz

| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist "Hot House Flowers" – Wynton Marsalis | Best Jazz Instrumental Album New York Scene – Jazz Messengers |
| Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album 88 Basie Street – Count Basie | Best Jazz Fusion Performance First Circle – Pat Metheny Group |
| Best Inspirational Performance Nothin' but the Blues – Joe Williams ||

### Latina

| Best Latin Pop Album Siempre en Mi Corazón — Always in My Heart – Plácido Domingo María Conchita – María Conchita Alonso Como Tu Quieres – José Feliciano Secretos – José José Invítame – Johnny Evolución – Menudo | Best Tropical Latin Album Palo Pa' Rumba – Eddie Palmieri Bien Sabroso! – Poncho Sánchez In Alaska: Breaking the Ice – El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico Buscando América – Rubén Blades Criollo – Willie Colón Y Ahora! – Los Socios del Ritmo |
| Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album Me Gustas Tal Como Eres – Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel Concavo y Convexo – Roberto Carlos "Un Amor Especial" – Yolanda del Río Recuerdos II – Juan Gabriel Eternamente Tuyo – Raphael ||

### Teatro musical

* Best Musical Theater Album
* Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim & Thomas Z. Shepard

### Vídeos musicais

| Best Music Video "Jazzin' for Blue Jean" — David Bowie Ashford & Simpson – Ashford & Simpson Phil Collins – Phil Collins Thomas Dolby – Thomas Dolby "Twist of Fate" – Olivia Newton-John "Scenic Views" – Rubber Rodeo | Best Music Film Making Michael Jackson's Thriller – Michael Jackson Serious Moonlight – David Bowie We're All Devo – Devo Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Eurythmics Billy Joel Live from Long Island – Billy Joel Heartbeat City – The Cars |

### Packaging e notas

| Best Recording Package She's So Unusual — Janet Perr Willie Nelson – Bill Johnson, Virginia Team & Jeff Morris for Every Man Has a Woman – Bill Levy No Brakes – John Waite Bewitched – Andy Summers & Michael Ross | Best Album Notes Virginia Traditions Work Songs – Glenn Hinson Amadeus (Original Soundtrack) – Grover Sales An Anthology of Sacred Carols for Classical Guitar – James Sundquist A Golden Celebration – Z Factor & Lorene Lortie for A Golden Celebration |

### Pop

| Melhor performance feminina pop "What's Love Got to Do with It" – Tina Turner "The Glamorous Life" – Sheila E. "Strut" – Sheena Easton "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" – Cyndi Lauper "Let's Hear It for the Boy" – Deniece Williams | Melhor performance masculina pop "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" – Phil Collins "Footloose" – Kenny Loggins "Hello" – Lionel Richie "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder "Missing You" – John Waite |
| Melhor performance pop por uma dupla ou grupo "Jump (For My Love)" – The Pointer Sisters "Drive" — The Cars "Hard Habit to Break" — Chicago "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" — Wham! "Owner of a Lonely Heart" — Yes | Melhor performance instrumental pop "Ghostbusters (Instrumental)" – Ray Parker Jr. Nightsongs – Earl Klugh "Jump (For My Love)" – Steve Mitchell, Richard Perry & Howard Rice "The Natural" – Randy Newman "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder |

### Produção/Engenharia

| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Chicago 17 – Humberto Gatica Aerial Boundaries – Steven Miller Can't Slow Down – Calvin Harris Heartbeat City – Nigel Green Into the Gap – Phil Thornalley | Best Engineered Album, Classical Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100 – Paul Goodman, Leonard Slatkin & the Saint Louis Symphony |
| Producer of the Year, Non-Classical James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie, empatados com David Foster Prince & the Revolution Robert John Mutt Lange & The Cars Michael Omartian | Producer of the Year, Classical Steven Epstein Thomas Z. Shepard Marc Aubort & Joanna Nickrenz Jay David Saks Robert Woods |

### R&B

| Best Female R&B Vocal Performance "I Feel for You" – Chaka Khan Patti Austin – Patti Austin "Let the Music Play" – Shannon "Let's Stay Together" – Tina Turner "Let's Hear It for the Boy" – Deniece Williams | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Caribbean Queen" – Billy Ocean Don't Stop – Jeffrey Osborne In the Name of Love – Bill Withers It's Your Night – James Ingram "The Woman In Red" – Stevie Wonder |
| Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals "Yah Mo B There" – James Ingram & Michael McDonald "Edgartown Groove" – Kashif & Al Jarreau "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" – Jermaine Jackson & Michael Jackson "The Last Time I Made Love" – Joyce Kennedy, Jeffrey Osborne | Best R&B Instrumental Performance Sound-System – Herbie Hancock |
| Best R&B Song "I Feel For You" – Prince "Dancing in the Streets" – Shalamar "Yah Mo B There" – James Ingram & Michael McDonald "Caribbean Queen" – Billy Ocean "The Glamorous Life" – Sheila E. ||

### Reggae

* Best Reggae Album
* Anthem – Black Uhuru
* "Reggae Nights" – Jimmy Cliff
* "Steppin' Out" – Steel Pulse
* Captured Live – Peter Tosh
* King Yellowman – Yellowman

### Rock

| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance "Better Be Good To Me" – Tina Turner "Dancin' on the Edge" – Lita Ford "Here She Comes" – Bonnie Tyler W.O.W. – Wendy O. Williams "Rock It Out" – Pia Zadora | Best Male Rock Vocal Performance "Dancing in the Dark" – Bruce Springsteen "Blue Jean" – David Bowie "Rebel Yell" – Billy Idol "Restless" – Elton John "Pink Houses" – John Cougar Mellencamp |
| Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution Heartbeat City – The Cars Genesis – Genesis "Jump" – Van Halen 90125 – Yes | Best Rock Instrumental Performance "Cinema" – Yes "Vibramatic" – Lionel Hampton "Home by the Sea" – Genesis "Donut City" – Eddie Van Halen Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" |

### Falado

* Best Spoken Word Album
* The Words of Gandhi – Ben Kingsley
* The Real Thing (Broadway Cast) – Jeremy Irons & Glenn Close
* Our Time Has Come – Jesse Jackson
* Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue) – John Lennon & Yoko Ono