43rd Annual Grammy Awards
The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 2001, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Several artists earned three awards on the night: Steely Dan's haul included Album of the Year for Two Against Nature; U2 took home the Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Beautiful Day"; Dr. Dre won Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Best Rap Album for Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP; Eminem himself also received three awards, out of four nominations; Faith Hill took home Best Country Album for the album Breathe, Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song's title track and for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Tim McGraw for "Let's Make Love". Madonna opened the show with "Music".
Nominations and winners
General
;Record of the Year- "Beautiful Day" – U2
- * Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, producers; Steve Lillywhite and Richard Rainey, engineers/mixers
- "Say My Name" – Destiny's Child
- * Rodney Jerkins, producer; LaShawn Daniels, Brad Gildem and Jean Marie Hurout, engineers/mixers
- "I Try" – Macy Gray
- * Andrew Slater, producer; Dave Way, engineer/mixer
- "Music" – Madonna
- * Mirwais Ahmadzai and Madonna, producers
- "Bye Bye Bye" – *NSync
- * Jake Schulze and Kristian Lundin, producers; Mike Tucker, engineer/mixer
- Two Against Nature – Steely Dan
- * Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, producers; Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols, Dave Russell and Elliot Scheiner, engineers/mixers
- Midnite Vultures – Beck
- * Beck Hansen and Dust Brothers, producers
- The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
- * Jeff Bass, Mark Bass, Dr. Dre, Tommy Coster, Eminem and The 45 King, producers; Rich Behrens, Mike Butler, Chris Conway, Rob Ebeling, Michelle Forbes, Richard Segal Huredia, Steve King, Aaron Lepley, James McCrone, Akane Nakamura and Lance Pierre, engineers/mixers
- Kid A – Radiohead
- * Radiohead, producer; Nigel Godrich, engineer/mixer
- You're the One – Paul Simon
- * Paul Simon, producer; Andy Smith, engineer/mixer
- "Beautiful Day"
- * U2, songwriters
- "Breathe"
- * Stephanie Bentley and Holly Lamar, songwriters
- "I Hope You Dance"
- * Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sellers, songwriters
- "I Try"
- * Macy Gray, Jinsoo Lim, Jeremy Ruzumna and David Wilder, songwriters
- "Say My Name"
- * LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson and Kelendria Rowland, songwriters
- Shelby Lynne
- Brad Paisley
- Papa Roach
- Jill Scott
- Sisqó
Alternative
- Kid A – Radiohead
- When the Pawn – Fiona Apple
- Midnite Vultures – Beck
- Bloodflowers – The Cure
- Liverpool Sound Collage – Paul McCartney
Blues
- Simon Climie, Alan Douglas, Eric Clapton and B. B. King for Riding with the King
- Tony Braunagel, Joe McGrath, Terry Becker, Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band for Shoutin' In Key
Children's
- Best Musical Album for Children
- * Joseph Miskulin, Dan Rudin and Brent Truitt and Riders in the Sky for
- Best Spoken Word Album for Children
- * David Rapkin and Jim Dale for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Comedy
- From 1994 through 2003, see "Best Spoken Comedy Album" under the "Spoken" field, below.
Classical
- Best Orchestral Performance
- * Stephen Johns, Mike Clements, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmonic for Mahler: Sym. No. 10
- Best Classical Vocal Performance
- * Christopher Raeburn, Jonathan Stokes, Cecilia Bartoli and Il Giardino Armonico for The Vivaldi Album
- Best Opera Recording
- * Martin Sauer, Jean Chatauret, Kent Nagano, Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Torsten Kerl and the Orchestre de l'Opera Nationale de Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust
- Best Choral Performance
- * Karen Wilson, Don Harder, Helmuth Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus for Penderecki: Credo
- Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
- * Grace Row, Charles Harbutt, Roger Norrington, Joshua Bell and the London Philharmonic for Maw: Violin Concerto
- Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
- * Tobias Lehmann, Jens Schünemann and Sharon Isbin for Dreams of a World
- Best Small Ensemble Performance
- * Christian Gausch, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Shadow Dances
- Best Chamber Music Performance
- * Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox and the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets
- Best Classical Contemporary Composition
- * George Crumb and Thomas Conlin for Crumb: Star-Child
- Best Classical Album
- * Da-Hong Seetoo and Max Wilcox and the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets
- Best Classical Crossover Album
- * Steven Epstein, Richard King, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor for Appalachian Journey
Composing and arranging
- Best Instrumental Composition
- * John Williams for "Theme From Angela's Ashes"
- Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
- * Randy Newman for "When She Loved Me" performed by Sarah McLachlan
- Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
- * Bill Bernstein, Thomas Newman, Dennis Sands, Thomas Newman and Thomas Newman for American Beauty
- Best Instrumental Arrangement
- * Chick Corea for "Spain for Sextet and Orchestra"
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist
- * Vince Mendoza for "Both Sides Now" performed by Joni Mitchell
Country
- Best Female Country Vocal Performance
- * Faith Hill for "Breathe"
- Best Male Country Vocal Performance
- * Johnny Cash for "Solitary Man"
- Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- * Asleep at the Wheel for "Cherokee Maiden"
- Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
- * Faith Hill and Tim McGraw for "Let's Make Love"
- Best Country Instrumental Performance
- * Alison Brown and Béla Fleck for "Leaving Cottondale"
- Best Country Song
- * Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers for "I Hope You Dance" performed by Lee Ann Womack
- Best Country Album
- * Byron Gallimore, Julian King, Mike Shipley and Faith Hill for Breathe
- Best Bluegrass Album
- * Steve Buckingham, Gary Paczosa and Dolly Parton for The Grass Is Blue
Film/TV/media
- Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
- * Danny Bramson and Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous performed by various artists
Folk
- Best Traditional Folk Album
- * Mark Linett and Dave Alvin for Public Domain - Songs from the Wild Land
- Best Contemporary Folk Album
- * Malcolm Burn, Jim Watts and Emmylou Harris for Red Dirt Girl
- Best Native American Music Album
- * Tom Bee and Douglas Spotted Eagle for Gathering of Nations Pow Wow performed by various artists
Gospel
- Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
- * Dennis Herring, Rich Hasal and Jars of Clay for If I Left the Zoo
- Best Rock Gospel Album
- * Dino Elefante, John Elefante, David Hall, J.R. McNeely and Petra for Double Take
- Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
- * Bubba Smith, Michael E. Mathis and Shirley Caesar for You Can Make It
- Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
- * Warryn "Baby Dubb" Campbell and Mary Mary for Thankful
- Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
- * Brent King, Alan Shulman, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Soldier of the Cross
- Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
- * Carol Cymbala and Oliver Wells for Live - God Is Working performed by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Historical
- Best Historical Album
- * Steve Berkowitz, Seth Rothstein, Phil Schaap, Michael Brooks, Seth Foster, Andreas Meyer, Woody Pornpitaksuk, Ken Robertson, Tom Ruff and Mark Wilder for Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Jazz
- Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
- * Pat Metheny for " Get It"
- Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
- * Rob 'Wacko' Hunter, Branford Marsalis and the Branford Marsalis Quartet for Contemporary Jazz
- Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- * James Farber and Joe Lovano for 52nd Street Themes
- Best Jazz Vocal Album
- * Erik Zobler, George Duke and Dianne Reeves for In the Moment – Live In Concert
- Best Contemporary Jazz Album
- * Richard Battaglia, Robert Battaglia, Béla Fleck and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones for Outbound
- Best Latin Jazz Album
- * Jon Fausty and Chucho Valdés for Live at the Village Vanguard
Latin
- Best Latin Pop Album
- * Adam Blackburn, Eric Schilling, Marcelo Añez, Sebastián Krys, Tim Mitchell and Shakira for Shakira - MTV Unplugged
- Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album
- * Freddy Piñero Jr, Gustavo Celis, Javier Garza, Mauricio Guerrero, Scott Canto, Sebastián Krys, Emilio Estefan, George Noriega, Robert Blades and Gloria Estefan for Alma Caribeña
- Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
- * Carlos Ceballos and Pepe Aguilar for Por Una Mujer Bonita
- Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album
- * Humberto Gatica and La Ley for Uno
- Best Tejano Album
- * Edward Pérez, Greg García,, Freddie Martínez, Hugo Guerrero and The Legends for ¿Qué Es Música Tejana?
- Best Salsa Album
- * Jon Fausty, Eddie Palmieri and Tito Puente for Masterpiece/Obra Maestra
- Best Merengue Album
- * David Hewitt and Hector Ivan Rosa and Olga Tañón for Olga Viva, Viva Olga
Musical show
- Best Musical Show Album
- * Frank Filipetti, Guy Babylon and Paul Bogaev, Chris Montan, Elton John, Tim Rice and the original Broadway cast for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
Music video
- Best Long Form Music Video
- * Gimme Some Truth - The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album - Andrew Solt ; Greg Vines, Leslie Tong and Yoko Ono
- Best Short Form Music Video
- * "Learn To Fly" - Foo Fighters ; Jesse Peretz ; Tina Nakane
New Age
- Thinking of You-Kitarō
Packaging and notes
- Best Recording Package
- * Kevin Reagan for Music performed by Madonna
- Best Boxed Recording Package
- * Arnold Levine and Frank Harkins for Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis and John Coltrane
- Best Album Notes
- * Bob Blumenthal for Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Polka
- Touched by a Polka - Jimmy Sturr
Pop
- "I Try" - Macy Gray
- "What a Girl Wants" - Christina Aguilera
- "Music" - Madonna
- "Save Me" - Aimee Mann
- "Both Sides Now" - Joni Mitchell
- "Oops!...I Did It Again" - Britney Spears
- "She Walks This Earth" - Sting
- "You Sang to Me" - Marc Anthony
- "Taking You Home" - Don Henley
- "She Bangs" - Ricky Martin
- "6, 8, 12" - Brian McKnight
- "Cousin Dupree" - Steely Dan
- "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" - Backstreet Boys
- "Pinch Me" - Barenaked Ladies
- "Breathless" - The Corrs
- "Bye Bye Bye" - *NSYNC
- "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't " - B.B. King and Dr. John
- "Thank God I Found You" - Mariah Carey, 98 Degrees and Joe
- "The Difficult Kind" - Sheryl Crow and Sarah McLachlan
- "All the Way" - Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra
- "Turn Your Lights Down Low" - Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley
Brian Setzer for "Caravan" performed by the Brian Setzer Orchestra
;Best Dance Recording
Michael Mangini, Steve Greenberg and Baha Men for "Who Let the Dogs Out"
;Best Pop Vocal Album
- Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
- * Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
- Symphony No. 1 - Joe Jackson
Production and engineering
- Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett and Roger Nichols for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan
- John M. Eargle for ''Dvorák: Requiem, Op. 89; Sym. No. 9, Op. 95 "From the New World"'
- Dr. Dre
- Steven Epstein
- Hex Hector
R&B
- "He Wasn't Man Enough" - Toni Braxton
- "Untitled " - D'Angelo
- "Say My Name"-Destiny's Child
- Ear-Resistible - The Temptations
- La Shawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson and Kelendria Rowland for "Say My Name" performed by Destiny's Child
- Voodoo - D'Angelo
Rap
- "The Real Slim Shady" – Eminem
- "The Light" – Common
- "Party Up " – DMX
- "Shake Ya Ass" – Mystikal
- "Country Grammar" – Nelly
- "Forgot About Dre" – Dr. Dre featuring Eminem
- "Alive" – Beastie Boys
- "Oooh." – De La Soul featuring Redman
- "The Next Episode" – Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
- "Big Pimpin'" – Jay-Z featuring UGK
- The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
- ...And Then There Was X – DMX
- Dr. Dre – 2001 – Dr. Dre
- Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter – Jay-Z
- Country Grammar – Nelly
Reggae
- Art and Life - Beenie Man
Rock
- "There Goes the Neighborhood" – Sheryl Crow
- "Paper Bag" – Fiona Apple
- "Enough Of Me" – Melissa Etheridge
- "So Pure" – Alanis Morissette
- "Glitter In Their Eyes" – Patti Smith
- "Again" – Lenny Kravitz
- "Thursday's Child" – David Bowie
- "Things Have Changed" – Bob Dylan
- "Workin' It" – Don Henley
- "Into The Void" – Nine Inch Nails
- "Beautiful Day" – U2
- "It's My Life" – Bon Jovi
- "With Arms Wide Open" – Creed
- "Learn To Fly" – Foo Fighters
- "Californication" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Guerrilla Radio" – Rage Against the Machine
- "American Bad Ass" – Kid Rock
- "Take A Look Around " – Limp Bizkit
- "Grievance" – Pearl Jam
- "Down" – Stone Temple Pilots
- "Elite" – Deftones
- "The Wicker Man" – Iron Maiden
- "Astonishing Panorama Of The Endtimes" – Marilyn Manson
- "Revolution Is My Name" – Pantera
- "Wait And Bleed" – Slipknot
- Michael Kamen, Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for "The Call of Ktulu"
- Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti for "With Arms Wide Open" performed by Creed
- Adam Kasper and Foo Fighters for There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Spoken
- Best Spoken Word Album
- * Rick Harris, John Runnette and Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
- Best Spoken Comedy Album
- * John Runnette and George Carlin for Brain Droppings
Traditional pop
- Allen Sides, Geoff Foster, Larry Klein and Joni Mitchell for ''Both Sides, Now
World
- Moogie Canazio, Caetano Veloso and João Gilberto for ''João Voz e Violão
Special Merit Awards
- MusiCares Person of the Year
- * Paul Simon
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- * The Beach Boys
- * Tony Bennett
- * Sammy Davis, Jr.
- * Bob Marley
- * The Who
Trivia
- The three awards Steely Dan won were their first ever career Grammy Wins.
- Eminem's controversial The Marshall Mathers LP which had several nominations including Album of the Year caused outrage. 200 protesters on behalf of GLAAD and other groups gathered outside the Staples Center to protest Eminem's album which they considered homophobic and sexist. He performed his hit single "Stan" as a duet with openly gay musician Elton John at the ceremony in response to these allegations. This version is also featured as the final track on Eminem's 2005 compilation .