Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer(s), unless the performer is also the art director.

The category dates back to 1974, when the name of the award was Best Album Package. It evolved from the Best Album Cover category, which was retired in 1973 and not revived until 2026. The Best Album Package category was renamed again in 1994 to Best Recording Package.

In 1995, boxed sets were no longer eligible, as they were split off into a separate award, currently known as the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.

Winners and nominees

1970s

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| rowspan="9" style="text-align: center;" | 1974

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Tommy

| Wilkes and Braun

| London Symphony Orchestra/Chamber Choir

| Billion Dollar Babies

| Pacific Eye and Ear

| Alice Cooper

| Chicago VI

| John Berg

| Chicago

| Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits

| Al Steckler

| Chubby Checker

| Houses of the Holy

| Hipgnosis

| Led Zeppelin

| Los Cochinos

| Ode Visuals, Inc.

| Cheech & Chong

| Ooh La La

| Jim Ladwig

| Faces

| The World of Ike and Tina

| Mike Salisbury

| Ike and Tina Turner

| rowspan="9" style="text-align: center;" | 1975

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Come and Gone

| Ed Thrasher and Christopher Whorf

| Mason Proffit

| Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album

| Ode Visuals, Inc.

| Cheech & Chong

| Is It In

| Bob Defrin and Basil Pao

| Eddie Harris

| On Stage

| Ron Coro

| Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina

| Quadrophenia

| Ethan A. Russell

| The Who

| Ride 'Em Cowboy

| Eddie Briscoe

| Paul B. Davis

| Santana's Greatest Hits

| John Berg

| Santana

| That's a Plenty

| Herb Greene

| The Pointer Sisters

| rowspan="10" style="text-align: center;" | 1976

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Honey

| Jim Ladwig

| Ohio Players

| Atlantic Crossing

| John Kosh

| Rod Stewart

| Dream

| William E. McEuen

| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

| One of These Nights

| Gary Burden

| Eagles

| Physical Graffiti

| AGI

| Led Zeppelin

| Playing Possum

| Glen Christensen

| Carly Simon

| Solo Piano

| Bob Defrin

| Phineas Newborn Jr.

| Steppin

| Mick Haggerty

| The Pointer Sisters

| Wish You Were Here

| Hipgnosis

| Pink Floyd

| rowspan="9" style="text-align: center;" | 1977

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Chicago X

| John Berg

| Chicago

| Bellavia

| Roland Young

| Chuck Mangione

| Coney Island Baby

| Acy Lehman

| Lou Reed

| The End of the Beginning

| rowspan=2| Roland Young

| Richie Havens

| Mirrors

| Peggy Lee

| Presence

| Hipgnosis and Hardie

| Led Zeppelin

| Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B Flat, Op. 38/Manfred: Overture, Op. 115

| Joseph Stelmach

| Charles Münch conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra

| Silk Degrees

| Ron Coro and Nancy Donald

| Boz Scaggs

| rowspan="9" style="text-align: center;" | 1978

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Simple Dreams

| John Kosh

| Linda Ronstadt

| Color as a Way of Life

| Bob Defrin and Abie Sussman

| Lou Donaldson

| Ginseng Woman

| Paula Scher

| Eric Gale

| Hejira

| Glen Christensen

| Joni Mitchell

| Love Notes

| John Berg

| Ramsey Lewis

| Singin

| John Kosh

| Melissa Manchester

| Wings over America

| Hipgnosis

| Paul McCartney and Wings

| Yardbirds Favorites

| Paula Scher

| The Yardbirds

| rowspan="9" style="text-align: center;" | 1979

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Boys in the Trees

| Tony Lane and Johnny B. Lee

| Carly Simon

| Bruce Roberts

| Tony Lane

| Bruce Roberts

| The Cars

| Ron Coro

| The Cars

| Children of Sanchez

| Junie Osaki

| Chuck Mangione

| Heads

| John Berg and Paula Scher

| Bob James

| Last Kiss

| Tim Bryant

| Fandango

| Non-Fiction

| Barbara Wojirsch

| Steve Kuhn

| Out of the Woods

| Ron Coro and Johnny B. Lee

| Oregon

1980s

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| rowspan="10" style="text-align: center;" | 1980

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Breakfast in America

| Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty

| Supertramp

| Chicago 13

| Tony Lane

| Chicago

| Fear of Music

| John Gillespie

| Talking Heads

| In Through the Out Door

| Aubrey Powell

| Led Zeppelin

| Look Sharp!

| Michael Ross

| Joe Jackson

| Morning Dance

| Peter Corriston

| Spyro Gyra

| Near Perfect/Perfect

| Ron Coro and Johnny B. Lee

| Martin Mull

| Ramsey

| John Berg

| Ramsey Lewis

| With Sound Reason

| Lynne Dresse Breslin

| Sonny Fortune

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1981

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Against the Wind

| Roy Kohara

| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

| Cats

| Ron Coro and Johnny B. Lee

| Various Artists

| Chicago XIV

| John Berg

| Chicago

| One on One

| Paula Scher

| Bob James and Earl Klugh

| Tusk

| Nahas Vigon

| Fleetwood Mac

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1982

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Tattoo You

| Peter Corriston

| The Rolling Stones

| Eagles Live

| John Kosh

| Eagles

| Positive Touch

| Bush Hollyhead

| The Undertones

| Social Studies

| Carla Bley and Paul McDonough

| Carla Bley

| Working Class Dog

| Mike Doud

| Rick Springfield

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1983

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Get Closer

| John Kosh and Ron Larson

| Linda Ronstadt

| Nothing to Fear

| Jules Bates

| Oingo Boingo

| Ongaku-Kai Live in Japan

| George Osaki

| The Crusaders

| Vacation

| Ginger Canzoneri and Mick Haggerty

| The Go-Go's

| We Are One

| Ron Coro and Denise Minobe

| Pieces of a Dream

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1984

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Speaking in Tongues

| Robert Rauschenberg

| Talking Heads

| The Key

| Michael Ross

| Joan Armatrading

| Nothing But the Truth

| Richard Seireeni

| Mac McAnally

| One Night with a Stranger

| Bill Levy and Murry Whiteman

| Martin Briley

| Records

| Lynn Dreese Breslin and Bob Defrin

| Foreigner

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1985

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| She's So Unusual

| Janet Perr

| Cyndi Lauper

| Bewitched

| Michael Ross and Andy Summers

| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp

| Every Man Has a Woman

| Bill Levy

| John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash and Others

| No Brakes

| Henry Marquez

| John Waite

| Willie Nelson

| Bill Johnson, Jeff Morris and Virginia Team

| Willie Nelson

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1986

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Lush Life

| John Kosh and Ron Larson

| Linda Ronstadt

| Hunting High and Low

| Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff and Jeri McManus

| a-ha

| In Square Circle

| Rene Hardaway and Johnny B. Lee

| Stevie Wonder

| Highwayman

| Virginia Team

| The Highwaymen

| Dangerous Moments

| Bill Levy, Stan Watts and Murry Whiteman

| Martin Briley

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1987

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Tutu

| Eiko Ishioka

| Miles Davis

| Songs Unspoken

| Buddy Jackson

| Douglas Trowbridge

| Stereotomy

| Colin Chambers and Andrew Ellis

| The Alan Parsons Project

| True Stories

| Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff and Michael Hodgson

| Talking Heads

| The Voice: The Columbia Years 1943–1952

| John Berg

| Frank Sinatra

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1988

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| King's Record Shop

| Bill Johnson

| Rosanne Cash

| Document

| Ron Scarselli

| R.E.M.

| Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band

| Joseph Stelmach

| Duke Ellington

| Echelons

| Bruce Licher

| For Against

| Shaka Zulu

| Peter Barrett

| Ladysmith Black Mambazo

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1989

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Tired of the Runnin

| Bill Johnson

| The O'Kanes

| Bête Noire

| Bryan Ferry and Andrew Reid

| Bryan Ferry

| Brian Wilson

| Jeri Heiden

| Brian Wilson

| Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

| Bruce Licher

| Camper Van Beethoven

| Picture This

| Henry Marquez

| The Valentine Brothers

1990s

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| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1990

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Sound + Vision

| Roger Gorman

| David Bowie

| Batman (Limited Edition)

| Tom Recchion

| Prince

| Foreign Affair (Special Limited Edition)

| Bill Burks and Tommy Steele

| Tina Turner

| Monster

| Tommy Steele

| Fetchin Bones

| World in Motion

| Jimmy Wachtel

| Jackson Browne

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1991

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Days of Open Hand

| Jeff Gold, Len Peltier and Suzanne Vega

| Suzanne Vega

| Compositions (Special Edition Blue Binder Cover)

| Anita Baker, Carol Bobolts and Jim Ladwig

| Anita Baker

| Behind the Mask

| Jeri Heiden

| Fleetwood Mac

| Bossanova

| Vaughan Oliver

| Pixies

| Songs for Drella (Special Edition Black Velvet)

| Tom Recchion

| Lou Reed and John Cale

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1992

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings

| Vartan

| Billie Holiday

| Beat the Boots (Limited Edition Box Set)

| Geoff Gans

| Frank Zappa

| Just for the Record

| Gabrielle Raumberger

| Barbra Streisand

| Mighty Like a Rose (Special Package)

| Steven Baker and Dirk Walter

| Elvis Costello

| Recycler (Special Package)

| Kim Champagne and Jeff Gold

| ZZ Top

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1993

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Spellbound (Compact)

| Melanie Nissen

| Paula Abdul

| Len Peltier

| Suzanne Vega

| Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll — The Complete 50's Masters

| Ria Lewerke and Norman Moore

| Elvis Presley

| Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings

| Geoff Gans

| Aretha Franklin

| Too Legit to Quit (Special Package)

| Tommy Steele and Stephen Walker

| MC Hammer

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1994

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| '

| David Lau

| Billie Holiday

| 14 Songs

| Kim Champagne and Jeff Gold

| Paul Westerberg

| Automatic for the People (2nd Set)

| Jeff Gold, Jim Ladwig, Tom Recchion and Michael Stipe

| R.E.M.

| Live and Loud

| David Coleman

| Ozzy Osbourne

| Shine On

| Storm Thorgerson

| Pink Floyd

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1995

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

| Buddy Jackson

| Asleep at the Wheel

| Boingo

| Deborah Norcross

| Oingo Boingo

| Jar of Flies

| Mary Maurer

| Alice in Chains

| Secret World Live

| Michael Coulson and Martha Ladly

| Peter Gabriel

| Very Relentless

| Mark Farrow, Pet Shop Boys and Daniel Weil

| Pet Shop Boys

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1996

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Turbulent Indigo

| Robbie Cavolina and Joni Mitchell

| Joni Mitchell

| Mirror Ball

| Gary Burden

| Neil Young

| Mountains of Madness

| Stefan Sagmeister

| H.P. Zinker

| This Is Fort Apache

| Tim Stedman

| Various Artists

| Vitalogy

| Joel Zimmerman

| Pearl Jam

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1997

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Ultra-Lounge (Leopard Skin Sampler)

| Andy Engel and Tommy Steele

| Various Artists

| Ænima

| Adam Jones and Kevin Willis

| Tool

| East of the Sun: The West Coast Sessions

| Chika Azuma and Patricia Lie

| Stan Getz

| Miracle of Science

| rowspan=2| Stefan Sagmeister

| Marshall Crenshaw

| Set the Twilight Reeling

| Lou Reed

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1998

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Titanic: Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage

| Hugh Brown, Al Quattrocchi and Jeff Smith

| Various Artists

| Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon

| Stefan Sagmeister

| Skeleton Key

| Free Mars

| Paul D'Amour, Peter Grant and Stephanie Hughes

| Lusk

| Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!

| Johann Zambryski

| Enigma

| The Planet Sleeps

| Julian Peploe

| Various Artists

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 1999

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Ray of Light

| Kevin Reagan

| Madonna

| Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

| Brad Benedict, Andy Engel and Scotty Morris

| Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

| Los Super Seven

| Gina R. Binkley and Susan Eaddy

| Los Super Seven

| Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation

| Chika Azuma

| Jack Kerouac

| Yield

| Barry Ament, George Estrada, Pearl Jam and Coby Schultz

| Pearl Jam

2000s

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| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2000

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Ride with Bob

| Ray Benson, Sally Carns and Buddy Jackson

| Asleep at the Wheel

| Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 60's

| Carla Leighton

| Various Artists

| Late Night Sessions

| Tammy Dotson, Michael Hodgson and Clive Piercy

| Caravana Cubana

| Ultra-Lounge: Tiki Sampler

| Brad Benedict, Andy Engel, Johnny B. Lee and Tommy Steele

| Various Artists

| Vacancy

| Joseph Arthur and Zachary Larner

| Joseph Arthur

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2001

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Music

| Kevin Reagan

| Madonna

| The Concert for García Lorca

| Dan Ibarra and Kevin Wade

| Ben Sidran

| Machina/The Machines of God

| Billy Corgan, Gregory Sylvester, Thomas Wolfe and Yelena Yemchuk

| The Smashing Pumpkins

| The Shaming of the True

| Hugh Brown and John Seabury

| Kevin Gilbert

| Zenith

| Rachel Gutek and Jonathan Lea

| The Jigsaw Seen

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2002

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Amnesiac (Special Limited Edition)

| Stanley Donwood and Tchocky

| Radiohead

| Bedlam Ballroom

| Lane Wurster

| Squirrel Nut Zippers

| Levee Town

| Megan Barra

| Sonny Landreth

| Look into the Eyeball

| Stephen Doyle

| David Byrne

| Reveal

| Chris Bilheimer and Michael Stipe

| R.E.M.

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2003

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Home

| Kevin Reagan

| Dixie Chicks

| Dirty Vegas

| Simon Earith

| Dirty Vegas

| The Great Divide

| Rick Patrick

| Willie Nelson

| Release

| Greg Foley

| Pet Shop Boys

| Worship and Tribute

| Justin Beck and Mick Haggerty

| Glassjaw

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2004

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Evolve

| Ani DiFranco and Brian Grunert

| Ani DiFranco

| In Bright Mansions

| Jim McAnally

| The Fisk Jubilee Singers

| Plow to the End of the Row

| Jami Anderson

| Adrienne Young

| The Road to Bliss

| Bill Dolan and Cathy Richardson

| Cathy Richardson Band

| ( )

| Orri Páll Dýrason, Georg Hólm, Jón Þór Birgisson, Kjartan Sveinsson and Alex Torrance

| Sigur Rós

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2005

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| A Ghost Is Born

| Peter Buchanan-Smith and Dan Nadel

| Wilco

| Chutes Too Narrow

| Jesse LeDoux

| The Shins

| Educated Guess

| Ani DiFranco and Brian Grunert

| Ani DiFranco

| To the 5 Boroughs

| Nathaniel Hörnblowér and Dechen Wangdu

| Beastie Boys

| The Wandering Accordion

| Qing-Yang Xiao

| Various Artists

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2006

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| The Forgotten Arm

| Aimee Mann and Gail Marowitz

| Aimee Mann

| The Clouds

| Stuart Hyatt

| Stuart Hyatt and Community

| The Cosmic Game

| Neal Ashby

| Thievery Corporation

| Knuckle Down

| Ani DiFranco and Brian Grunert

| Ani DiFranco

| O God, the Aftermath

| Ryan Clark

| Norma Jean

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2007

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| 10,000 Days

| Adam Jones

| Tool

| The Best Worst-Case Scenario

| Ryan Clark

| Fair

| Personal File

| Randall Martin

| Johnny Cash

| Reprieve

| Ani DiFranco and Brian Grunert

| Ani DiFranco

| Versions

| Neal Ashby and Matthew Curry

| Thievery Corporation

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2008

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Cassadaga

| Zachary Nipper

| Bright Eyes

| The Dio Years

| Masaki Koike

| Black Sabbath

| Friend and Foe

| Craig Thompson

| Menomena

| Secrets Keep You Sick

| Don Clark

| The Fold

| White Horse

| Qing-Yang Xiao

| GTS

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2009

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Death Magnetic

| Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner

| Metallica

| Hawk Nelson...Is My Friend!

| Don Clark

| Hawk Nelson

| Nouns

| No Age and Brian Roettinger

| No Age

| Radio Retaliation

| Neal Ashby, Matthew Curry and Patrick Donohue

| Thievery Corporation

| Summer Rains

| Amanda Barrett, Abby DeWald, Renee Jablow and Rick Whitmore

| The Ditty Bops

2010s

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| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2010

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

| Stefan Sagmeister

| David Byrne and Brian Eno

| Back from the Dead

| Brian Porizek

| Spinal Tap

| Middle Cyclone

| Neko Case and Kathleen Judge

| Neko Case

| Splitting Adam

| Jeff Harrison

| Splitting Adam

| Tathagata

| Szu Wei Cheng and Hui Chen Huang

| Various Artists

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2011

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Brothers

| Michael Carney

| The Black Keys

| Eggs

| Malthe Fischer, Malene Mathiasson, Kristoffer Rom, Nis Svoldgård and Aske Zidore

| Oh No Ono

| Hadestown

| Brian Grunert, Anaïs Mitchell and Peter Nevins

| Anaïs Mitchell

| What Will We Be

| Devendra Banhart and Jon Beasley

| Devendra Banhart

| Yonkers NY

| Andrew Taray

| Chip Taylor

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2012

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Scenes from the Suburbs

| Caroline Robert

| Arcade Fire

| Chickenfoot III

| Todd Gallopo

| Chickenfoot

| Good Luck & True Love

| Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds

| Reckless Kelly

| Rivers and Homes

| Jonathan Dagan

| J.Viewz

| Watch the Throne

| Virgil Abloh and Riccardo Tisci

| Jay-Z and Kanye West

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2013

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Biophilia

| Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak

| Björk

| Boys & Girls

| Brett Kilroe

| Alabama Shakes

| Charmer

| Gail Marowitz

| Aimee Mann

| Love This Giant

| Noah Wall

| David Byrne and St. Vincent

| Swing Lo Magellan

| David Longstreth

| Dirty Projectors

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2014

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Long Night Moon

| Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds

| Reckless Kelly

| Automatic Music Can Be Fun

| Mike Brown, Zac DeCamp, Brian Grunert and Annie Stoll

| Geneseo

| Magna Carta...Holy Grail

| Brian Roettinger

| Jay-Z

| Metallica Through the Never

| Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat, Brian Steele and David Turner

| Metallica

| The Next Day

| Jonathan Barnbrook

| David Bowie

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2015

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Lightning Bolt

| Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix and Jerome Turner

| Pearl Jam

| Formosa Medicine Show

| David Chen and Andrew Wong

| The Muddy Basin Ramblers

| Indie Cindy

| Vaughan Oliver

| Pixies

| LP1

| Jesse Kanda

| FKA twigs

| Whispers

| Sarah Larnach

| Passenger

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2016

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

| Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds and Dick Reeves

| Asleep at the Wheel

| Alagoas

| Alex Trochut

| Alagoas

| Bush

| Anita Marisa Boriboon and Phi Hollinger

| Snoop Dogg

| How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Deluxe Edition)

| Brian Roettinger

| Florence + the Machine

| My Happiness

| Nathanio Strimpopulos and Jack White

| Elvis Presley

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2017

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Blackstar

| Jonathan Barnbrook

| David Bowie

| 22, A Million

| Eric Timothy Carlson

| Bon Iver

| Anti (Deluxe Edition)

| Robyn Fenty, Roy Nachum and Ciarra Pardo

| Rihanna

| Human Performance

| Andrew Savage

| Parquet Courts

| Sunset Motel

| Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds

| Reckless Kelly

|-v

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2018

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| El Orisha De La Rosa (TIE)

| Carlos Dussán, Juliana Jaramillo, Juan Felipe Martínez and Claudio Roncoli

| Magín Díaz

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) (TIE)

| Sasha Barr, Ed Steed and Josh Tillman

| Father John Misty

| Mura Masa

| Alex Crossan and Matt de Jong

| Mura Masa

| Sleep Well Beast

| Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman and Andrea Trabucco-Campos

| The National

| Solid State

| Gail Marowitz

| Jonathan Coulton

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2019

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Masseduction

| Willo Perron

| St. Vincent

| Be the Cowboy

| Mary Banas

| Mitski

| Love Yourself: Tear

| Doohee Lee

| BTS

| The Offering

| Qing-Yang Xiao

| The Chairman

| Well Kept Thing

| Adam Moore

| Foxhole

2020s

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| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2020

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Chris Cornell

| Barry Ament, Jeff Ament and Joe Spix

| Chris Cornell

| Anónimas & Resilientes

| Luisa María Arango, Carlos Dussan, Manuel García-Orozco and Juliana Jaramillo-Buenaventura

| Voces del Bullerengue

| Hold That Tiger

| Andrew Wong and Fongming Yang

| The Muddy Basin Ramblers

| I,I

| Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson

| Bon Iver

| Intellexual

| Irwan Awalludin

| Intellexual

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2021

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Vols. 11 & 12

| Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto

| The Desert Sessions

| Everyday Life

| Pilar Zeta

| Coldplay

| Funeral

| Kyle Goen and Alex Kalatschinow

| Lil Wayne

| Healer

| Julian Gross and Hannah Hooper

| Grouplove

| On Circles

| Jordan Butcher

| Caspian

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2022

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Pakelang

| Li Jheng Han and Yu Wei

| 2nd Generation Falangao Singing Group and The Chairman Crossover Big Band

| American Jackpot / American Girls

| Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds

| Reckless Kelly

| Carnage

| Nick Cave and Tom Hingston

| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

| Serpentine Prison

| Dale Doyle

| Matt Berninger

| Zeta

| Xiao Qing Yang

| Soul of Ears

| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | 2023

|- style="background:#FAEB86;"

| Beginningless Beginning

| Chun-Tien Hsiao and Qing-Yang Xiao

| Tamsu-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra

| Divers

| William Stichter

| Soporus

| Everything Was Beautiful

| Mark Farrow and Jason Pierce

| Spiritualized

| Telos

| Ming Liu

| Fann

| Voyeurist

| Joel Cook, Brandon Rike and Nate Utesch

| Underoath

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| Stumpwork

| Annie Collinge and Rottingdean Bazaar

| Dry Cleaning

| The Art of Forgetting

| Caroline Rose

| Cadenza 21

| Hsing-Hui Cheng

| Ensemble Cadenza 21'

| Electrophonic Chronic

| Perry Shall

| The Arcs

| Gravity Falls

| iam8bit

| Brad Breeck

| Migration

| Chang Yu Chung, Li Jheng Han and Yu Wei

| Leaf Yeh

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| Brat

| Charli XCX, Brent David Freaney and Imogene Strauss

| Charli XCX

| The Avett Brothers

| Scott Avett, Jonny Black and Giorgia Sage

| The Avett Brothers

| Baker Hotel

| Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds

| William Clark Green

| F-1 Trillion

| Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, Bobby Greenleaf, Blossom Liu, Kylie McMahon, Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta and Austin Post

| Post Malone

| Hounds of Love: The Baskerville Edition

| Kate Bush and Albert McIntosh

| Kate Bush

| Jug Band Millionaire

| Andrew Wong and Julie Yeh

| The Muddy Basin Ramblers

| Pregnancy, Breakdown and Disease

| Lee Pei-Tzu

| WhoiWhoo

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| Tracks II: The Lost Albums

| Meghan Foley and Michelle Holme

| Bruce Springsteen

| And the Adjacent Possible

| Hà Trịnh Quốc Bảo, Damian Kulash Jr., Claudio Ripol, Wombi Rose and Yuri Suzuki

| OK Go

| Balloonerism

| Bráulio Amado and Alim Smith

| Mac Miller

| Danse Macabre: De Luxe

| Rory McCartney

| Duran Duran

| Loud Is As

| Farbod Kokabi and Emily Sneddon

| Tsunami

| Sequoia

| Tim Breen and Ken Shipley

| Various Artists

| The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl)

| Miller McCormick and Darby Kaighin-Shields

| Mac Miller

Multiple wins

;3 wins

John Kosh
Kevin Reagan

;2 wins

Jeff Ament
Sarah Dodds
Shauna Dodds
Buddy Jackson
Bill Johnson
Ron Larson
Joe Spix

Multiple nominations

;8 nominations

John Berg

;7 nominations

Ron Coro

;6 nominations

Sarah Dodds
Shauna Dodds
Brian Grunert
John Kosh
Johnny B. Lee
Tommy Steele

;5 nominations

Stefan Sagmeister

;4 nominations

Bob Defrin
Ani DiFranco
Jeff Gold
Mick Haggerty
Hipgnosis
Jim Ladwig
Paula Scher
Qing-Yang Xiao

;3 nominations

Neal Ashby
Andy Engel
Buddy Jackson
Tony Lane
Bill Levy
Gail Marowitz
Kevin Reagan
Brian Roettinger
Michael Ross
Andrew Wong
Roland Young

;2 nominations

Barry Ament
Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
Chika Azuma
Jonathan Barnbrook
Brad Benedict
Hugh Brown
Gary Burden
Eric Timothy Carlson
Kim Champagne
Glen Christensen
Don Clark
Ryan Clark
Peter Corriston
Matthew Curry
Mike Doud
Bruce Duckworth
Carlos Dussán
Mark Farrow
Geoff Gans
Li Jheng Han
Jeri Heiden
Michael Hodgson
Juliana Jaramillo
Adam Jones
Bruce Licher
Henry Marquez
Sarah Moffat
Ode Visuals, Inc.
Vaughan Oliver
Len Peltier
Tom Recchion
Joseph Stelmach
Michael Stipe
Virginia Team
David Turner
Yu Wei
Murry Whiteman

Winners and nominees

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

References