The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award:
The Beatles
Best Rock Performance:
Alabama Shakes – “Always Alright”
David Bowie – “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”
Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive” (WINNER)
Led Zeppelin – “Kashmir”
Queens of the Stone Age – “My God is the Sun”
Jack White – “I’m Shakin'”
Best Metal Performance:
Anthrax – “T.N.T.”
Black Sabbath – “God Is Dead?” (WINNER)
Dream Theater – “The Enemy Inside”
Killswitch Engage – “In Due Time”
Volbeat (feat. King Diamond) – “Room 24”
Best Rock Album:
Black Sabbath – 13
David Bowie – The Next Day
Kings of Leon – Mechanical Bull
Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day (WINNER)
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
Best Rock Song:
Gary Clark, Jr. – “Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round”
Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear – “Cut Me Some Slack” (WINNER)
The Rolling Stones – “Doom and Gloom”
Black Sabbath – “God Is Dead?”
Muse – “Panic Station”
Best Alternative Music Album:
Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (WINNER)
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Quentin Tarantino, compilation producer, Django Unchained
Baz Luhrman, compilation producer, The Great Gatsby (Deluxe Edition)
Cameron Mackintosh, Lee McCutcheon & Stephan Metcalfe, compilation producers, Les Misérables (Deluxe Edition)
Stephan Badger & Greg Camalier, compilation producers, Muscle Shoals
Butch Vig, compilation producer, Sound City: Real To Reel (Winner)