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 "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 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 "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 Cyndi Lauper Sheila E. Frankie Goes to Hollywood Corey Hart The Judds
Blues 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 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 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat – Jay David Saks, Leonard Slatkin & St. Louis Symphony ''Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel – Pierre Boulez, Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Ensemble InterContemporain|- | valign="top" width="50%"|
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| valign="top" width="50%"|
Brahms: A German Requiem – James Levine, Margaret Hillis & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus|- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter – Raymond Leppard, Wynton Marsalis & English Chamber Orchestra| valign="top" width="50%"|
Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites – Yo-Yo Ma|- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets – Juilliard String Quartet| valign="top" width="50%"|
Antony and Cleopatra – Samuel Barber & Christian Badea|- | colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|
Amadeus (Original Soundtrack)'' – John Strauss, Neville Marriner, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Comédia "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 "The Natural" – Randy Newman "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" – John Williams "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" – Quincy Jones & Jeremy Lobbock "Hard Habit To Break" – David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock "Automatic" – Anita Pointer, June Pointer & Ruth Pointer 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 "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 "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. "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 "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 "Ricky Skaggs" – Wheel Hoss
Folk Elizabeth Cotten Live! – Elizabeth Cotten
Gospel "Angels" – Amy Grant ''Michael W. Smith – Michael W. Smith |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Sailin – Shirley Caesar| valign="top" width="50%"|
"Always Remember" – Andraé Crouch|- | valign="top" width="50%"|
"Keep The Flame Burning" – Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll| valign="top" width="50%"|
"Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love" – Shirley Caesar & Al Green|- | colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|
"Forgive Me" – Donna Summer'''
Histórico 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 "Hot House Flowers" – Wynton Marsalis New York Scene – Jazz Messengers ''88 Basie Street – Count Basie| valign="top" width="50%"|
First Circle – Pat Metheny Group|- | colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|
Nothin' but the Blues'' – Joe Williams
Latina 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 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 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 Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim & Thomas Z. Shepard
Vídeos musicais "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 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 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 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 "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 "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 "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 "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 Chicago 17 – Humberto Gatica Aerial Boundaries – Steven Miller Can't Slow Down – Calvin Harris Heartbeat City – Nigel Green Into the Gap – Phil Thornalley ''Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100'' – Paul Goodman, Leonard Slatkin & the Saint Louis Symphony James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie, empatados com David Foster Prince & the Revolution Robert John Mutt Lange & The Cars Michael Omartian Steven Epstein Thomas Z. Shepard Marc Aubort & Joanna Nickrenz Jay David Saks Robert Woods
R&B "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 "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 "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 Sound-System – Herbie Hancock "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 Anthem – Black Uhuru "Reggae Nights" – Jimmy Cliff "Steppin' Out" – Steel Pulse Captured Live – Peter Tosh King Yellowman – Yellowman
Rock "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 "Dancing in the Dark" – Bruce Springsteen "Blue Jean" – David Bowie "Rebel Yell" – Billy Idol "Restless" – Elton John "Pink Houses" – John Cougar Mellencamp Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution Heartbeat City – The Cars Genesis – Genesis "Jump" – Van Halen 90125 – Yes "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 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
1985 Categoria:Prémios de música em 1985