The Best of 1965
Record of the Year - “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Album of the Year - September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year - “The Shadow of Your Smile” (Love Theme From The Sandpiper)
Best New Artist - Tom Jones
Most Promising New Recording Artist - Peter Serkin, pianist
Best Vocal Performance, Male - “It Was a Very Good Year,” Frank Sinatra
Best Vocal Performance, Female - My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand
Best Performance By a Vocal Group - We Dig Mancini, Anita Kerr Singers
Best Performance By a Chorus - Anyone for Mozart?, Swingle Singers
Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Single - “King of the Road,” Roger Miller
Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Male - “King of the Road,” Roger Miller
Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Vocal Performance, Female - “I Know a Place,” Petula Clark
Best Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Performance Group - “Flowers on the Wall,” Statler Brothers
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording - “Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,” James Brown (King)
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group  - The “In” Crowd, Ramsey Lewis Trio
Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group - Ellington '66, Duke Ellington Orchestra
Best Original Jazz Composition - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts, Lalo Shifrin, composer
Best Country and Western Single - “King of the Road,” Roger Miller
Best Country and Western Album - The Return of Roger Miller, Roger Miller (Smash)
Best Country and Western Song - “King of the Road,” Roger Miller, songwriter
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male - “King of the Road,” Roger Miller
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Female - “Queen of the House,” Jody Miller
Best New Country and Western Artist - Statler Brothers
Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording - Southland Favorites, George Beverly Shea and Anita Kerr
Best Folk Recording - An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba (RCA)
Best Instrumental Arrangement - “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert, arranger
Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist - “It Was a Very Good Year,”
Best Instrumental Performance, Non-Jazz - “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Best Score From an Original Show Album - On a Clear Day, Alan Lerner and Burton Lane (RCA)
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show - The Sandpiper
Classical Album of the Year - Classical Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, An Historic Return, Vladimir Horowitz
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Ives, Symphony No. 4, Leopold Stokowski conducting
Best Classical Chamber Music Performance - The Six String Quartets, Juilliard String Quartet
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) Beethoven, Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Artur Rubinstein; Erich Leinsdorf conducting Boston Symphony
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist - Horowitz at Carnegie Hall,  Vladimir Horowitz
Best Classical Vocal Performance, With or Without Orchestra Strauss, Salome (“Dance of the Seven Veils,” Interlude, Final Scene); The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene), Leontyne Price
Best Composition By a Contemporary Classical Composer Symphony No. 4, Charles Ives, composer
Best Comedy Performance - Why Is There Air?, Bill Cosby
Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording - John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him (Columbia)
Best Recording for Children - Dr. Seuss Presents “Fox in Sox” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” Marvin Miller