Grammy Awards per l'anno 1960

Il 3° Grammy Awards fu tenuto il 13 Aprile del 1961. I riconoscimenti riguardavano le realizzazioni dei musicisti per l'anno precedente.

Children's

Best Album Created for Children
- Ross Bagdasarian Sr for Let's All Sing With the Chipmunks performed by David Seville & the Chipmunks;

Classical

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
- Fritz Reiner (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
- Leontyne Price for A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital
Best Classical Opera Production
- Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Bjoerling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot
Best Classical Performance - Choral (including oratorio)
- Thomas Beecham (conductor) & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus; for Handel: Messiah
Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
- Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Sviatoslav Richter & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than with orchestral accompaniment)
- Laurindo Almeida for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Alemida
Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music
- Laurindo Almeida for Conversations With the Guitar
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
- Aaron Copland (composer & conductor) & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Orchestral Suite From Tender Land Suite

Comedy

Best Comedy Performance - Spoken Word
- Bob Newhart for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
Best Comedy Performance - Musical
- Jo Stafford & Paul Weston for Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris performed by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards"

Composing and arranging

Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television
- Ernest Gold (composer) for Exodus
Best Arrangement
- Henry Mancini (arranger) for Mr. Lucky

Country

Folk

Jazz

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group
- Andre Previn for West Side Story
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
- Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat
Best Original Jazz Composition
- Gil Evans for Sketches of Spain performed by Gil Evans & Miles Davis

Musical Show

Best Sound Track Album
- Cole Porter (composer) for Can Can performed by Frank Sinatra & the original cast
Best Musical Show Album
- Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers (composers) for The Sound of Music performed by Mary Martin & the original Broadway cast

Packaging and Notes

Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography
- Marvin Schwartz (art director) for Latin a la Lee performed by Peggy Lee

Pop

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Single or Track
- Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife"
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Album
- Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Single or Track)]]
- Ray Charles "Georgia on My Mind"
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Album
- Ray Charles for Genius of Ray Charles
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence for "We Got Us"
Best Performance by a Chorus
- Norman Luboff for Songs of the Cowboy performed by the Norman Luboff Choir
Best Performance By a Band for Dancing
- Count Basie for Dance With Basie
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
- Henry Mancini for Mr. Lucky
Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist
- Ray Charles for "Georgia on My Mind"

Production and engineering

Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
- Luis P. Valentin (engineer) for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook performed by Ella Fitzgerald
- John Kraus (engineer) for The Old Payola Roll Blues performed by Stan Freberg
Best Classical Engineered Recording
- Hugh Davies (engineer) for The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida performed by Laurindo Almeida

R&B

Spoken

Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
- Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks