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51st Annual Grammy Awards
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Most nominations
Lil Wayne (8)
Date
8 February 2009
Network
CBS
Other ceremonies
2008, 2010
Most awards
Alison Krauss, Robert Plant (5)
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, winning five awards including Album of the Year for their critically acclaimed Raising Sand. Krauss became the sixth female solo artist to have won 5 awards in one night joining Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Beyoncé Knowles, and Amy Winehouse. Lil Wayne received the most nominations with eight.
"That's How You Know" (from Enchanted) - Amy Adams
"Walk Hard" (from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) - John C. Reilly
Composing and arranging
Best Instrumental Composition
"The Adventures of Mutt" (from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) – John Williams
John Williams, composer
Best Instrumental Arrangement
"Define Dancing" (from WALL-E) – Thomas Newman
Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, arrangers
Best Pop Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
"Captain Of Her Heart" – [Project Grand Slam & Judie Tzuke]
Ron Thaler, Haim Cotton, arrangers
Package
Best Recording Package
'Death Magnetic – Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffatt & David Turner, art directors (Metallica)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
'In Rainbows – Stanley Donwood, Mel Maxwell & Xian Munro, art directors (Radiohead)
Album notes
Best Album Notes
Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition – Francis Davis, album notes writer (Miles Davis)
Historical
Best Historical Album
Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music – Documented By Art Rosenbaum Steven; Lance Ledbetter & Art Rosenbaum, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
Production, non-classical
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Consolers of the Lonely – The Raconteurs
Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell & Jack White III, engineers
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Rick Rubin
Death Magnetic (Metallica)
Home Before Dark (Neil Diamond)
Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy) (Ours)
Seeing Things (Jakob Dylan)
Weezer (Red Album) (Weezer)
Ron Thaler
In The Margins (Kelly Saint Patrick) (A)
No One (song), As I Am - The Super Edition (Alicia Keys) (A)
Captain Of Her Heart (Project Grand Slam) (A)
Everything Changed (Greg Merritt & Heavy Road) (A)
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
"Electric Feel" (Justice Remix)
(MGMT), remixers Justice
Production, surround sound
Best Surround Sound Album
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina – Paavo Järvi & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra – Michael Bishop & Robert Woods
Production, classical
Best Engineered Album, Classical
David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis – Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago – Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Producer of the Year, Classical
David Frost
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique – Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic
Right Through The Bone—Julius Röntgen Chamber Music
Schubert: Sonata in D major; Liszt: Don Juan Fantasy – Min Kwon
Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago – Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Classical
Best Classical Album
Kurt Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – James Conlon, conductor
Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – James Conlon, conductor; Fred Vogler, producer; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald – Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Best Choral Performance
Symphony of Psalms – Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master – Berlin Philharmonic; Rundfunkchor Berlin
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra)
Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale – Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary
Best Classical Vocal Performance
Hila Plitmann – Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan – JoAnn Falletta (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan – John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta)
Classical Crossover Album
Simple Gifts – King's Singers
Music video
Best Short Form Music Video
"Pork and Beans" – Weezer
Mathew Cullen, video director; Bernard Rahill, video producer
Best Long Form Music Video
Runnin' Down a Dream – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Peter Bogdanovich, video director; Skot Bright, video producer
Cancelled performances
Rihanna's 51st Grammy Awards performance was cancelled due to treatment caused by domestic violence by her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown.
Records
Alison Krauss became the sixth female solo artist to have won five Grammys in one evening. The artists who won five before her are Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Beyoncé Knowles, and Amy Winehouse. However, at the ceremony (2010 Grammy Awards) next year, Beyoncé surpassed the record by gaining six such awards.
In Memoriam
George Carlin, Jerry Wexler, Jerry Reed, Mike Smith, Rick Wright, Eartha Kitt, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, Earl Palmer, Buddy Harman, Freddie Hubbard, David "Fathead" Newman, Johnny Griffin, Jimmy McGriff, Mike Berniker, Teo Macero, Eddy Arnold, Nick Reynolds, Miriam Makeba, Odetta, Pervis Jackson, Cachao López, Norman Smith, Neil Aspinall, William Claxton, Neal Hefti, Jo Stafford, Levi Stubbs, Jheryl Busby, Norman Whitfield, Claude Jeter, Ira Tucker, Dottie Rambo, Larry Norman, Merl Saunders, F.M. Scott III, Delaney Bramlett, Alton Ellis, Shakir Stewart, Static Major, Leonard Pennario, Norman Dello Joio, Alexander Slobodyanik, Henry Z. Steinway, Earle Hagen, Isaac Hayes, Danny Federici and Bo Diddley.
Trivia
The four Grammys Lil Wayne won were the first ever Grammy Award wins in his Career.
After a four-year hiatus, pop-punk band Blink-182 announced their reunion before giving the award for rock album of the year to alternative rock band Coldplay.
