List of Australian Grammy Award winners

This list details Australian musicians, performers, producers and composers that have been successful in winning a Grammy Award. Many on the list have also been inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Hall of Fame.[1]

A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) – or Grammy – is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognise outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on 4 May 1959, and it was set up to honour musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

Australian musicians and performers have produced a wide variety of popular music which has been commercially successful on the international scene.[2][3] However, success at the Grammy Awards has been quite rare for Australian musicians. The first Australian to win a Grammy was Joan Sutherland in 1961. The most successful Australians are The Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John and Keith Urban who have won 4 Grammy Awards each.

Categories

Record of the Year

Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a single song.

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2012	Gotye	Somebody That I Used To Know	Artist, producer & engineer/mixer; shared with Kimbra (artist), François Tétaz (engineer/mixer) & William Bowden (mastering engineer)	[4]
1984	Terry Britten	What's Love Got To Do With It	Producer; shared with Tina Turner (artist)	[5]
1974	Olivia Newton-John	I Honestly Love You	Artist; shared with John Farrar (producer)	[6][7]

Album of the Year

Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a full album.

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1978	Bee Gees	Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack	Shared with Various Artists	[8][9]

Song of the Year

Song of the Year is awarded to the composer(s) of the song.

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1984	Terry Britten	What's Love Got To Do With It	Shared with Graham Lyle	[5]

Best New Artist

Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist (which is not necessarily their first proper release).

Year	Name	Notes	Ref
1982	Men at Work		[10][11]

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2012	Gotye	Somebody That I Used To Know	Shared with Kimbra	[4]

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1978	Bee Gees	Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack		[8][9]
1977	Bee Gees	How Deep Is Your Love		[12]

Best Hard Rock Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2009	AC/DC	War Machine		[13]
2006	Wolfmother	Woman		[14]

Best Dance Recording

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2003	Kylie Minogue	Come into My World		[15]

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2016	Flume	Skin		[16]

Best Alternative Music album

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2012	Gotye	Making Mirrors		[4]

Best Rap Album

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2015	M-Phazes	The Marshall Mathers LP2	Producer; shared with Eminem (artist)

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1981	Rick Springfield	Jessie's Girl		[17]

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1974	Olivia Newton-John	I Honestly Love You		[6][7]
1972	Helen Reddy	I Am Woman		[18][19]

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1973	Olivia Newton-John	Let Me Be There		[20][21]

Best Folk Album

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2017	Sarah Jarosz	Undercurrent	Shani Gandhi - Engineer

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2010	Keith Urban	'Til Summer Comes Around		[22]
2009	Keith Urban	Sweet Thing		[23]
2007	Keith Urban	Stupid Boy		[24]
2005	Keith Urban	You'll Think of Me		[25]

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1981	Joan Sutherland	Live From Lincoln Center – Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti	Shared with Luciano Pavarotti & Marilyn Horne & Richard Bonynge (conductor)	[26]

Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With or Without Orchestra)

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1961	Joan Sutherland	The Art of the Prima Donna	Shared with Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)	[27]

Video of the Year

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
1982	Olivia Newton-John	Physical		[28]

Best New Age Album

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2015	Wouter Kellerman and Ricky Kej	Winds of Samsara	Lamine Sonko - songwriter/vocalist

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Year	Name	Notes	Ref
1978	Bee Gees	Shared with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson	[8][9]

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2018	Hugh Jackman	The Greatest Showman	Shared with Various Artists	[29]

Best Music Film

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2018	Alan Hicks	Quincy	Shared with Quincy Jones, Rashida Jones (video director) and Paula DuPré Pesmen (video producer)	[30]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2018	Lauren Daigle	You Say	Paul Mabury

Best Christian Music Album

Year	Name	Album Title	Notes	Ref
2018	Lauren Daigle	Look Up Child	Paul Mabury

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

In 2013 Best Small Ensemble Performance was renamed to Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. [31]

Year	Name	Title	Notes	Ref
2011	Tim Munro	Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide	Full credits: David Frost, producer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri & Nicholas Photinos), ensembles; Tom Lazarus, Mat Lejeune, Bill Maylone & Jon Zacks, engineers/mixers	[32][33]
2012	Tim Munro	Eighth Blackbird: Meanwhile	Full credits: Judith Sherman, producer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri, Tim Munro & Nicholas Photinos), ensembles; Bill Maylone, engineer/mixer	[34][33]
2015	Tim Munro	Eighth Blackbird: Filament	Full credits: Bryce Dessner, producer; Jonathan Low, engineer; Eighth Blackbird (Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael J. Maccaferri, Tim Munro & Nicholas Photinos)	[35][36][33][37]

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14. "2006 Grammy Winners Wolfmother". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
15. "2003 Grammy Winners Kylie Minogue". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
16. "2016 Grammy Winners Flume". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
17. "1981 Grammy Winners Rick Springfield". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
18. "1972 Grammy Winners Helen Reddy". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
19. "Soulful Ballad By Roberta Flack Wins Record of The Year Grammy". The Times-News. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
20. "1973 Grammy Winners Olivia Newton-John". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
21. "Grammy Award For Aust Girl". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
22. "2010 Grammy Winners Keith Urban". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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25. "2005 Grammy Winners Keith Urban". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
26. "1981 Grammy Winners Joan Sutherland". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
27. "1961 Grammy Winners Joan Sutherland". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
28. "1982 Grammy Winners Olivia Newton-John". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
29. "2019 Grammy Winners Hugh Jackman". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
30. "2019 Grammy Winners – Best Music Film". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
31. "Explanation For Category Restructuring". GRAMMY.com. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
32. "54th Annual GRAMMY Awards". Retrieved 22 June 2020.
33. "Tim Munro". GRAMMY.com. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
34. "55th Annual GRAMMY Awards". GRAMMY.com. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
35. "58th Annual GRAMMY Awards". GRAMMY.com. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
36. "Filament - Eighth Blackbird". Retrieved 22 July 2020.
37. Sales, Leigh (17 February 2016), Australian flautist Tim Munro wins third Grammy with Eighth Blackbird, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 22 July 2020

External links

• Grammy Awards – Past Winners Search
• Australian Artists who have won a Grammy Award
• Grammy-winning Aussies