The 40th Grammy Awards were held in 1998. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.

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Alternative

Blues

Children's

Classical

Composing and arranging

Country

Folk

  • Best Traditional Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
    • BeauSoleil for L'amour ou la Folie
  • Best Contemporary Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Contemporary Folk Recording
Gospel

  • Best Rock Gospel Album incl. Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
    • dc Talk for Welcome to the Freak Show: dc Talk Live in Concert
  • Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
    • Peter York (producer) for Amazing Grace 2: A Country Salute to Gospel performed by various artists
  • Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    • The Fairfield Four for I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
  • Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    • Take 6 for Brothers
  • Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
    • Robert Searight II for God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation performed by God's Property directed by Robert Searight II

Historical

  • Best Historical Album
    • Amy Horowitz, Jeff Place & Pete Reiniger (producers), Charlie Pilzer & David Glasser (engineers) for Anthology of American Folk Music (1997 Edition Expanded) performed by various artists

Jazz

  • Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental - Also cont. Jazz Performance Vocal or Instrumental
    • Randy Brecker for Into the Sun
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album
    • Dee Dee Bridgewater for Dear Ella
  • Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
    • Nicholas Payton for "Stardust" performed by Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
  • Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group
  • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
    • Joe Henderson for Joe Henderson Big Band performed by the Joe Henderson Big Band
  • Best Latin Jazz Performance
    • Roy Hargrove's Crisol for Habana

Latin

  • Best Latin Pop Performance
  • Best Tropical Latin Performance
  • Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
    • La Mafia for En Tus Manos
  • Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance
    • Los Fabulosos Cadillacs for Fabulosos Calavera

Musical Show

  • Best Musical Show Album
    • Jay David Saks (producer) for Chicago the Musical performed by Various Artists featuring Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton & Joel Grey,

Music Video

  • Best Music Video, Short Form
  • Best Music Video, Long Form
    • David May, Glen Ballard & Steve Purcell (producers) for Jagged Little Pill, Live performed by Alanis Morissette

New Age

Packaging and Notes

  • Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography
    • Al Quattrocchi, Hugh Brown & Jeff Smith (art directors) for Titanic - Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage performed by various artists
  • Best Recording Package - Boxed
    • Rachel Gutek (art director) for Beg Scream And Shout! The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul performed by various artists
  • Best Album Notes
    • Kip Lornell, Luc Sante, Luis Kemnitzer, Neil V. Rosenberg & Peter Stampfel (notes writers) for Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997 Edition Expanded) performed by various artists

Polka

Pop

Production and engineering

  • Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
    • Frank Filipetti (engineer) for Hourglassperformed by James Taylor
  • Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
    • Babyface
  • Best Classical Engineered Recording
    • Michael Bishop (engineer) for Copland: The Music of America (Fanfare for the Common Man; Rodeo, etc.) conducted by Erich Kunzel
  • Classical Producer of the Year
    • Steven Epstein
  • Remixer of the Year
R&B

Rap

Reggae

Rock

Spoken

Trad Pop

  • Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
World


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