The 33rd Grammy Awards were held in 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.

Alternative

Blues

Children's

Classical

Comedy

Composing and arranging

Country

Folk

  • Best Traditional Folk Recording
  • Best Contemporary Folk Recording
    • Shawn Colvin for Steady On

Gospel

  • Best Pop Gospel Album
    • Sandi Patti for Another Time... Another Place
  • Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
    • Petra for Beyond Belief
  • Best Southern Gospel Album
    • Bruce Carroll for The Great Exchange
  • Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    • Tramaine Hawkins for Tramaine Hawkins Live
  • Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    • Take 6 for So Much 2 Say
  • Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
    • James Cleveland (choir director) for Having Church performed by the Southern California Community Choir

Historical

  • Best Historical Album
    • Lawrence Cohn & Stephen Lavere (producers) for Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings performed by Robert Johnson

Jazz

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
    • Harry Connick Jr for We Are In Love
  • Best Jazz Fusion Performance
  • Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
    • Oscar Peterson for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
  • Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group
    • The Oscar Peterson Trio for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
  • Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Big Band
    • Frank Foster for "Basie's Bag"

Latin

  • Best Latin Pop Performance
  • Best Tropical Latin Performance
  • Best Mexican-American Performance
    • The Texas Tornados for "Soy de San Luis"

Musical Show

  • Best Musical Cast Show Album
    • David Caddick (producer) & cast members with Garry Morris for Les Miserables - The Complete Symphonic Recording

Music Video

  • Best Music Video, Short Form
    • Candice Reckinger, Michael Patterson (video directors), Sharon Oreck (video producer) & Paula Abdul for "Opposites Attract"
  • Best Music Video, Long Form
    • Rupert Wainwright (video director), John Oetjen (video producer) & M.C. Hammer for Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - The Movie

New Age

  • Best New Age Album
    • Mark Isham for Mark Isham

Packaging and Notes

  • Best Album Package
    • Jeffrey Gold, Len Peltier & Suzanne Vega (art directors) for Days of Open Hand performed by Suzanne Vega
  • Best Album Notes
    • Dan Morgenstern (notes writer) for Brownie - The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown

Polka

  • Best Polka Album
Pop

Production and engineering

  • Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  • Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
  • Best Classical Engineered Recording
  • Classical Producer of the Year
    • Adam Stern

R&B

Rap

Reggae

  • Best Reggae Recording
    • Bunny Wailer for Time Will Tell - A Tribute to Bob Marley

Rock

Spoken

  • Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording

Other Grammy Award Years

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