Il Grammy Award alla miglior registrazione di un audiolibro, narrazione e storytelling (Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording) è un premio dei Grammy Award conferito dalla National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences per la qualità del miglior album discografico parlato o opera narrata.
La categoria è stata modificata nel 2023 per includere anche gli audiolibri e lo storytelling. Fino al 2022, includeva anche la lettura di poesie che ora ha la sua categoria, Grammy Award al miglior album di poesie parlate (Best Spoken Word Poetry Album)..
Storia del premio Il premio è stato conferito a partire dal 1959.
Nel corso degli anni il nome del premio è variato. Qui sotto viene riportata la cronologia dei vari titoli del premio conferito.
1959: Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word 1960-1961: Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy) 1962-1963: Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy) 1964-1965: Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy) 1966: Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording 1967-1968: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording 1969-1979: Best Spoken Word Recording 1980-1983: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording 1984-1991: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording 1992-1997: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album 1998-2022: Best Spoken Word Album dal 2023: Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
Vincitori e candidati Migliore interpretazione - documentario o parola parlata (1959-1961)
1959 Stan Freberg - The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg ed Ed Begley – Great American Speeches Stan Freberg – Green Christmas Elaine May e Mike Nichols – Improvisations to Music 1960 Carl Sandburg - Lincoln Portrait John Gielgud – Ages of Man Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight Basil Rathbone – Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes Tony Schwartz – New York Taxi Driver 1961 Robert Bialek - FDR Speaks Henry Fonda – Voices of the Twentieth Century John Gielgud – Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time) Archibald MacLeish – J.B.
Migliore registrazione parlata, documentario o dramma (1962-1991)
Anni 1960
1962 Leonard Bernstein - Humor in Music Hal Holbrook – More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight! Dorothy Parker – The World of Dorothy Parker Carl Sandburg, Harlow Shapley, Jawaharlal Nehru e Jacques Lipchitz – Wisdom, Vol. 1 Alexander Scourby – The Coming of Christ 1963 Charles Laughton - The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton Carl Sandburg – Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry Claude Rains e Glenn Gould – Enoch Arden Laurence Harvey – This Is My Beloved Stan Kenton – Mama Sang a Song 1964 Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen e Arthur Hill - Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya e Viveca Lindfors – Brecht on Brecht Martin Luther King con Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz e Bob Dylan – We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963) Goddard Lieberson, Pete Seeger ed altri – The Badmen Norman Weiser e David Teig – John F. Kennedy – The Presidential Years 1965 Cast di That Was The Week That Was - BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield e George Ross – Amleto Richard Burton e Peter O'Toole – Dialogue Highlights from Becket Alec Guinness e Kate Reid – Dylan John F. Kennedy, David Brinkley ed Adlai Stevenson – The Kennedy Wit 1966 Goddard Lieberson (produttore) - John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him Alec Guinness – A Personal Choice Chet Huntley e David Brinkley – A Time to Keep: '64 Royal National Theatre – Molto rumore per nulla Adlai Stevenson – The Voice of the Uncommon Man Margaret Webster – The Brontes 1967 Edward R. Murrow - Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I – The War Years Lee J. Cobb e Mildred Dunnock – Death of a Salesman Johnny Sea – Day for Decision Buddy Starcher – History Repeats Itself 1968 Everett Dirksen - Gallant Men James Dickey – Poems of James Dickey Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3 Patrick Magee e Cyril Cusack – Il balcone Rod McKuen – The Earth Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller e Robert Shaw – Un uomo per tutte le stagioni Victor Lundberg – An Open Letter to My Teenage Son 1969 Rod McKuen - Lonesome Cities Martin Luther King – I Have a Dream Paul Scofield – Assassinio nella cattedrale Martin Starkie – The Canterbury Pilgrims
Anni 1970
1970 Art Linkletter e Diane Linkletter - We Love You, Call Collect Walter Cronkite – Man on the Moon James Earl Jones – La grande speranza bianca 1971 Martin Luther King - Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Carawan, La Farge e Seeger – Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets Astronauti di Apollo 8, 11 e 12, John F. Kennedy e Richard Nixon – In the Beginning Bill Cosby – Grover Henson Feels Forgotten Everett Dirksen – Everett Dirksen's America 1972 Les Crane - Desiderata Richard Chamberlain – Amleto (una presentazione di Hallmark Hall of Fame) Walter Cronkite – I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan e Geraldine Fitzgerald – Lungo viaggio verso la notte James Whitmore – Will Rogers' USA 1973 Cast originale di Broadway - Lenny Angela Davis – Angela Davis Speaks Rod McKuen – The Word Yevgeny Yevtushenko – Yevtushenko 1974 Richard Harris - Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston Billie Holiday – Songs and Conversations Vincent Price – Witches, Ghosts and Goblins Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Mattatoio n. 5 John Wayne – America, Why I Love Her 1975 Peter Cook e Dudley Moore - Good Evening Sam Ervin – Senator Sam at Home Rod McKuen – Autumn Eric Sevareid – An Ear to the Sounds of Our History 1976 James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! Alistair Cooke – Talk About America Richard Harris – Il profeta Claudia McNeil – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Maureen Stapleton – Il buio oltre la siepe Orson Welles – Immortal Sherlock Holmes (The Mercury Theatre on the Air|Mercury Theatre on the Air) 1977 Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones e Orson Welles - Great American Documents Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 Charlton Heston – Il vecchio e il mare James Mason – Racconto di due città William Shatner – Foundation: The Psychohistorians 1978 Julie Harris - The Belle of Amherst Alex Haley – Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots Cast originale e Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf Christopher Tolkien – Il Silmarillion Harry Truman e Ben Gradus – The Truman Tapes 1979 Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Henry Fonda – Furore Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose e Gordon Gould – Cime tempestose Richard Nixon e David Frost – Interviste a Nixon AA.VV. – Radici (Original Television Soundtrack)
Anni 1980
1980 John Gielgud - Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare Henry Fonda – The Ox-Bow Incident Jim Morrison – An American Prayer Ken Nordine – Stare with Your Ears AA.VV. – Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Orson Welles e Helen Hayes – Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best 1981 Pat Carroll - Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein Mahalia Jackson – I Sing Because I'm Happy, Vols. 1 and 2 Cast originale – Adventures of Luke Skywalker: The Empire Strikes Back Orson Welles – Obediently Yours Peter Ustinov – James Thurber: A Curb In The Sky And Other Stories 1982 Orson Welles - Il cervello di Donovan E.G. Marshall – Justice Holmes' Decisions James Mason – Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita Paul McCartney e Vic Garbarini – The McCartney Interview Ed McMahon – 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (da Christmas with Friends ft. Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen e Tommy Newsom) 1983 Tom Voegeli (produttore) - I predatori dell'arca perduta: The Movie on Record Roger Rees – Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby Isaac Asimov – L'orlo della Fondazione John Gielgud e Ralph Richardson – Terra di nessuno Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odissea due 1984 William Warfield - A Lincoln Portrait Steve Allen e Jayne Meadows – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers Jane Fonda e Femmy De Lyser – Jane Fonda's Workout Record for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery John Gielgud ed Irene Worth – Il libro dei gatti tuttofare 1985 Ben Kingsley - The Words of Gandhi Jeremy Irons e Glenn Close – The Real Thing (Broadway Cast) Jesse Jackson – Our Time Has Come John Lennon e Yoko Ono – Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue) 1986 Mike Berniker (produttore) ed il cast di Broadway - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Alan Arkin – Comma 22 Dick Cavett – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn John le Carré – La spia che venne dal freddo Philip Roth – Zuckerman Bound 1987 Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins e Sam Phillips - Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions F. Murray Abraham – Intervista col vampiro Ray Bradbury – The Stories of Ray Bradbury Bill Cosby – Hardheaded Boys John Gielgud – Gulliver (composto da Patrick Williams) 1988 Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days Lauren Bacall – Lauren Bacall by Myself Katharine Hepburn – "Lincoln Portrait" (da Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait and Other Works di Erich Kunzel e della Cincinnati Pops Orchestra) Leonard Nimoy – Whales Alive Leonard Nimoy e George Takei – Rotta verso la Terra 1989 Jesse Jackson - Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, July 27 (da One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism) John Cleese – Le lettere di Berlicche John Gielgud – Canto di Natale Garrison Keillor e vari artisti – A Prairie Home Companion|A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance Jonathan Winters – Winters' Tale
Anni 1990
1990 Gilda Radner - It's Always Something Erma Bombeck – I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise Robert Fulghum – All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten John Gielgud – Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in Wonderland Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards ed il Cast – The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production 1991 George Burns - Gracie: A Love Story Garrison Keillor – A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance John F. Kennedy Jr. – Ritratti del coraggio Kyle MacLachlan – "Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper Jimmy Stewart – Jimmy Stewart and His Poems
Miglior album parlato (1992-2022)
1992 Ken Burns - The Civil War Douglas Adams – Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti Katharine Hepburn – Me: Stories of My Life Charles Kuralt – A Life on the Road 1993 Magic Johnson e Robert O'Keefe - What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS Fannie Flagg – Pomodori verdi fritti al caffè di Whistle Stop Garrison Keillor – Stories Ken Nordine – Devout Catalyst Patrick Stewart – Canto di Natale Orson Welles e Peter Bogdanovich – This Is Orson Welles 1994 Maya Angelou - On the Pulse of Morning LeVar Burton – Miles: The Autobiography Arlo Guthrie – Questa terra è la mia terra Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward – Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Emma Thompson – Casa Howard 1995 Henry Rollins - Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag Kenneth Branagh e la Renaissance Theatre Company – Amleto Ken Burns – Baseball Ben Kingsley – La lista di Schindler Gregory Peck – Bibbia (Nuovo Testamento) 1996 Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman Danny Glover – Lungo cammino verso la libertà Garrison Keillor – Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock 1997 Hillary Clinton - It Takes a Village Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C. C. H. Pounder ed Alfre Woodard – Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be Lauren Bacall, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon e Gregory Peck – Harry S Truman: A Journey to Independence Garrison Keillor – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn Charles Kuralt – Charles Kuralt's America 1998