Honors & Awards

Collectively, Yaddo artists have won 90 Pulitzer Prizes, 36 MacArthur Fellowships, 73 National Book Awards, 75 Emmy honors, 50 Grammy Awards, 14 Oscars, 19 Tony Awards, and a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Nobel Prize

LITERATURE
Saul Bellow, 1976
For the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

Pulitzer Prize

FICTION
John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley, 1938
Robert L. Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, 1959
Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, 1966
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, 1967
Jean Stafford, Collected Stories, 1970
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose, 1972
Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter, 1973
Saul Bellow, Humbolt’s Gift, 1976
James A. McPherson, Elbow Room, 1978
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever, 1979
Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1983
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs, 1985
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis, 1987
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1990
Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1998
Michael Cunningham, The Hours, 1999
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 2003
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, 2009
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad, 2011
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, 2017
Andrew Sean Greer, Less, 2018
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, 2020
Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, 2021
Hernan Diaz, Trust, 2023
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch, 2024

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Leon Edel, Henry James: Vol. 1, The Conquest of London, 1870-1881; Vol. III The Middle Years: 1881-1895, 1963
Louis Sheaffer, O’Neill, Son and Artist, 1974
William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, 2016
Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts, 2025

NONFICTION
Dale Maharidge (with Michael Williamson), And Their Children After Them, 1990
Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, 2019
Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, 2022

HISTORY
Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1937
Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time – Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, 1995

POETRY
Marya Zaturenska, Cold Morning Sky, 1938
John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems, 1939
Robert Lowell, Lord Weary’s Castle, 1947
Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum, 1949
Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen, 1950
Theodore Roethke, The Waking, 1954
Elizabeth Bishop, Poems: North & South – A Cold Spring, 1956
Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958, 1959
W.D. Snodgrass, Heart’s Needle, 1960
William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Breughel, 1963
Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems, 1966
Robert Lowell, The Dolphin, 1974
Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems, 1978
Donald Justice, Selected Poems, 1980
Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, 1982
Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems, 1983
William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, 1988
Mona Van Duyn, Near Changes, 1991
Mark Strand, Blizzard of One, 1999
Stephen Dunn, Different Hours, 2001
Carl Dennis, Practical Gods, 2002
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, 2003
Philip Schultz, Failure, 2008
Peter Balakian, Ozone, 2016
Forrest Gander, Be With, 2019
Marie Howe, New and Selected Poems, 2025

DRAMA
Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent fer Heaven, 1924
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive, 1998
David Auburn, Proof, 2001
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, 2004
Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced, 2013
Annie Baker, The Flick, 2014
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop, 2020
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Purpose, 2025

MUSIC
Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, 1945
Virgil Thomson, Louisiana Song, 1949
Gail Kubik, Symphony Concertante, 1952
Quincy Porter, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, 1954
Ernest Toch, Third Symphony, 1956
Karel Husa, String Quartet No. 3, 1969
Ned Rorem, Air Music, 1976
David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day, 1980
George Perle, Wind Quintet No. 4, 1986
George Walker, When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom’d, 1996
Aaron Jay Kernis, String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis, 1998
Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, 2004
Steven Stucky, Second Concerto for Orchestra, 2005
Zhou Long, Madame White Snake, 2011
Du Yun, Angel’s Bone, 2017
Tania León, Stride, 2021

EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Jules Feiffer, The Village Voice, 1986

PUBLIC SERVICE
Carl Bernstein (with the Washington Post), for investigation of the Watergate case, 1973

NATIONAL REPORTING
Tim Weiner (Philadelphia Inquirer), for investigation of a secret Pentagon budget, 1988

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Sheri Fink (ProPublica, in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine), for a story about a hospital staff’s life-and-death decisions during Hurricane Katrina, 2010

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Sheri Fink (with the New York Times), for reporting on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa, 2015

MacArthur Fellows

WRITERS
Bette Howland, 1984
Galway Kinnell, 1984
Walter Abish, 1987
Meyer Schapiro, 1987
Mark Strand, 1987
May Swenson, 1987
Irving Howe, 1987
Jay Cantor, 1989
John Hollander, 1990
Alice Fulton, 1991
Amy Clampitt, 1992
Paule Marshall, 1992
Joanna Scott, 1992
Ann Lauterbach, 1993
David Foster Wallace, 1997
Anne Carson, 2000
Andrea Barrett, 2001
Jonathan Lethem, 2005
Heather McHugh, 2009
Donald Antrim, 2013
Karen Russell, 2013
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
John Keene, 2018
Tommy Orange, 2025

MUSIC
George Perle, 1986

THEATER AND PERFORMING ARTS
Jennifer Tipton, 2008
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 2016
Annie Baker, 2017

VISUAL ARTS
Martin Puryear, 1989
Judy Pfaff, 2004
Anna Schuleit, 2006
Joan Snyder, 2007
Rackstraw Downes, 2009
Jordan Casteel, 2019

ART HISTORY AND CRITICISM
James Alan McPherson, 1981

CARTOGRAPHY
Margaret Wickens Pearce, 2025

National Book Awards

POETRY
William Carlos Williams, Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, 1950
Theodore Roethke, Words of the Wind, 1959
Robert Lowell, Life Studies, 1960
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark, 1963
Theodore Roethke, The Far Field, 1965
James Dickey, Buckdancer’s Choice: Poems, 1966
Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems, 1970
Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take, 1971
Howard Moss, Selected Poems, 1972
Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece, 1975
Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems, 1930-1976, 1977
Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, 1978
Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems, 1983
Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through: The Later Poems, 1995
Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems, 1998
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 2004
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems, 2008
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, 2012
John Keene, Punk: New and Selected Poems, 2022
Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, 2025

ARTS AND LETTERS
Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet, 1964
Eleanor Clark, Oysters of Lockmariaquer, 1965
Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, 1971
Roger Shattuck, Marcel Proust, 1975

FICTION
Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm, 1950
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1954
Wright Morris, The Field of Vision, 1957
John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1958
Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel, 1959
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, 1960
J.F. Powers, Morte D’Urban, 1963
Saul Bellow, Herzog, 1965
Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, 1966
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, 1967
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 1971
Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, 1972
John Williams, Augustus, 1973
Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers, 1975
Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird, 1977
Mary Lee Settle, Blood Ties, 1978
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever, 1981
Wright Morris, Plains Song, 1981
Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1983
Eudora Welty, Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, 1983
Philip Roth, Sabbath’s Theatre, 1995
Andrea Barrett,Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, 1996
William Meredith, Ship Fever and Other Stories, 1997
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, 2001
Louise Erdrich, The Round House, 2012Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, 2016
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend, 2018

FIRST WORK OF FICTION
Bob Shacochis, Easy in the Islands, 1985

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
Malcolm Cowley, And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978, 1980
Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 1982
James R. Mellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time, 1983

NONFICTION
Newton Arvin, Herman Melville, 1951
Herbert Kubly, An American in Italy, 1956
Richard Elman, James Joyce, 1960
Leon Edel, Henry James, Voume. II: The Conquest of London and Henry James, Volume. III: The Middle Years, 1963
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, 2001
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, 2007
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, 2015

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1975

HISTORY
Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers, 1977

TRANSLATION
William Arrowsmith, Cesare Pavese’s Hard Labor, 1980
Francis Steegmuller, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1981
John E. Woods, Arno Schmidt’s Evening Edged in Gold, 1981
Bruna Dantas Lobato, Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain, 2023

MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS
Saul Bellow, 1990
Eudora Welty, 1991
Clifton Fadiman, 1993
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1994
Philip Roth, 2002

Emmys

BEST MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION FOR TELEVISION 
Leonard Bernstein, Omnibus, 1957
Leonard Bernstein, Omnibus, 1958

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC FOR TELEVISION
Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, 1960
Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, 1961
Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, 1962

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN ENTERTAINMENT
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts with Leonard Bernstein, 1965

OUTSTANDING WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
James L. Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1971

OUTSTANDING VARIETY OR MUSICAL PROGRAM – CLASSICAL MUSIC
Leonard Bernstein, Beethoven’s Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna, 1972

BEST WRITING IN COMEDY-VARIETY, VARIETY OR MUSIC
Rosalyn Drexler, Lily, 1974

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
James L. Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show , 1975,
James L. Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show , 1976
James L. Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show , 1977
James L. Brooks, Taxi, 1979
James L. Brooks, Taxi, 1980
James L. Brooks, Taxi, 1981
Tom Anderson, Cheers, 1991

OUTSTANDING CLASSICAL MUSIC PROGRAM
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, 1976

OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A COMEDY SERIES
James L. Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1977

REGIONAL EMMY AWARD
John C. Ross, Blue and Gone, 1981

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
David Milch, Hill Street Blues, 1983
David Milch, NYPD Blue, 1995
David Milch, NYPD Blue, 1997
David Milch, NYPD Blue, 1998
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2008
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2009
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2010
Henry Bromell, Homeland, 2013

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT – CLASSICAL MUSIC/DANCE PROGRAMMING – PERFORMING
Leonard Bernstein, Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening, 1987

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCHERS
Andrea Weiss, Before Stonewall, 1987

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING
Emma Morris, Voices of Sarafina!, 1988

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITERS
Sheila Curran Bernard, Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest1991

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM
James L. Brooks, The Tracey Ullman Show, 1989

OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM
James L. Brooks, The Tracey Ullman Show, 1990

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 1990
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 1991
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 1995
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 1997
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 1998
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2000
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2001
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2003
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2006
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2008
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2019
James L. Brooks, The Simpsons, 2023

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS SERIES 
Tony Gerber, Behind the Screen with John Burke, 2001 
Tony Gerber, Behind the Screen with John Burke, 2002 
Eva Orner, Outstanding Special Class Series, Out of Iraq, 2017

OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A CONTINUING NEWS STORY
Elizabeth Thompson, Blink, 2001

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Matthew Weiner, The Sopranos, 2004
Matthew Weiner, The Sopranos, 2007
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2008
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2009
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2010
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, 2011 
Henry Bromell, Homeland, 2012 

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Eva Orner, Taxi to the Dark Side, 2009

OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE DESIGN
Dean Haspiel, Bored to Death, 2010

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR FOR A LIMITED SERIES
Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge, 2015

NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
Lana Wilson, After Tiller, 2015

BEST LIFESTYLE PROGRAM/SPECIAL
Alan Cumming, 1st Look: Scotland, 2017

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL
Ruth Hernandez, The Night Of: Subtle Beast, 2017

OUTSTANDING NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Paula M. Froehle, Trophy, 2019

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR AN UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM
Kate Hackett, Cheer: God Blessed Texas, 2020

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
Nathan Barr, Hollywood, 2020

OUTSTANDING CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY
Angela Tucker, Belly of the Beast, 2021

OUTSTANDING HOST OF A REALITY OR REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
Alan Cumming, The Traitors, 2024

OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
Alan Cumming, The Traitors, 2024
Alan Cumming, The Traitors, 2025

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM
Martina Radwan, Girls Stat, 2024

EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Michele Stephenson, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, 2024

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere, 2025

OUTSTANDING REGIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Julian Rubenstein, The Holly, 2025

HALL OF FAME HONOREES
Leonard Bernstein, 7th Hall of Fame, 1991
James L. Brooks, 13th Hall of Fame, 1997

Oscars

BEST PICTURE
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment, 1983
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland, 2020

DIRECTING
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment, 1983
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland, 2020

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
Jessica Yu, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien, 1996
Lisa Cortés, All the Empty Rooms, 2025

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Eva Orner, Taxi to the Dark Side, 2008

MUSIC (MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
Aaron Copland, The Heiress, 1949

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004

WRITING (SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM OTHER MATERIAL)
Mario Puzo, The Godfather, 1972
Mario Puzo, The Godfather Part II, 1974
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment, 1983

WRITING (STORY AND SCREENPLAY)
Daniel Fuchs, Love Me, or Leave Me, 1955

Tonys

BEST MUSICAL
Leonard Bernstein, Wonderful Town, 1953 
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop, 2022 

BEST MUSICAL (PRODUCER)
Alan Cumming, A Strange Loop, 2022 

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
James Lapine, Into the Woods, 1988 
James Lapine, Falsettos, 1992
James Lapine, Passion, 1994
Greg Kotis, Urinetown, 2002
Doug Wright, Grey Gardens, 2007
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop, 2022 
Shaina Taub, Suffs, 2024 

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Alan Cumming, Cabaret, 1998 

BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Blair Brown, Copenhagen, 2000 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Greg Kotis, Urinetown, 2002 

BEST PLAY
David Adjimi, Stereophonic, 2024 
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Purpose, 2025

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Appropriate, 2024 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Shaina Taub, Suffs, 2024 

SPECIAL TONY AWARD
Leonard Bernstein, 1969
James Lapine, 2026

Grammys

ALBUM OF THE YEAR – CLASSICAL
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 Kaddish, 1965
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of A Thousand), 1968

BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Laurie Anderson, Anderson, Laurie: Landfall, 2019
Eve Beglarian’s “None More Than You” was featured on Roomful of Teeth’s Rough Magic, 2024

BEST CLASSICAL CHORAL PERFORMANCE (OTHER THAN OPERA)
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major (Symphony of A Thousand), 1968

BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10, 2010

BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM
Leonard Bernstein, Concert of the Century, 1978
Leonard Bernstein, Ives: Sym. No. 2 Gong on The Hook and Ladder; Central Park In The Dark; The Unanswered Question, 1991
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein: Candide, 1992
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 9, 1993
Michael Tilson Thomas, Stravinsky: The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Perséphone, 2000
Peter Mattei, Berlioz: Les Troyens, 2002
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Kindertotenlieder, 2004
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 7, 2007
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10, 2010

BEST CLASSICAL CHORAL PERFORMANCE (OTHER THAN OPERA)
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major (Symphony of A Thousand), 1967

BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
Kenneth Fuchs, Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush, 2019
Michael Tilson Thomas, Thomas, M.T.: From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke, 2021

BEST CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE – VOCAL SOLOIST (WITH OR WITHOUT ORCHESTRA)
Leonard Bernstein conductor, Wagner: Gotterdamerung – Brunnhilde’s Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs (Eileen Farrell soprano vocals), 1963

BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
Charlie Porter, Song Play (collaboration), 2020

BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLOIST PERFORMANCE
Leonard Bernstein conductor, Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Janet Baker vocals), 1976

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
Jason Reitman producer, Juno, 2009

BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Aaron Copland, Copland: Orchestral Suite from Tender Land Suite, 1961
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein: Arias & Barcarolles, 1991
Aaron Jay Kernis, Kernis: Violin Concerto, 2019

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
Michael Tilson Thomas, Stravinsky: The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Perséphone, 2000
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10, 2010
Christopher Cerrone, Don’t Look Down (performed by Sandbox Percussion), 2026

BEST ENGINEERED RECORDING, CLASSICAL
Michael Tilson Thomas, Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, 1977
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein: Candide, 1992

BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT
Leonard Bernstein composer, West Side Story Medley, (Bill Cunliffe, arranger), 2010

BEST MUSICAL SHOW ALBUM
Leonard Bernstein composer, West Side Story, 2010

BEST OPERA RECORDING
Leonard Bernstein, Bizet: Carmen, Manhattan Opera Chorus; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, 1974
Peter Mattei, Berlioz: Les Troyens, 2002

BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1990
Leonard Bernstein, Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7, 1991
Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 9, 1993
Michael Tilson Thomas, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (scenes), San Francisco Symphony, 1997
Michael Tilson Thomas, Stravinsky: The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Perséphone, 2000
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 6, 2003
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mahler: Symphony No. 7., San Francisco Symphony, 2007
Michael Tilson Thomas, Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 2013
Andrew Norman composer, Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Norman: Sustain, 2020

BEST RECORDING FOR CHILDREN
Leonard Bernstein, Prokofiev: Peter and The Wolf, 1962
Leonard Bernstein, Saint-Saens: Carnival of The Animals/Britten: Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra, 1963
Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein Conducts for Young People, 1964

BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING
Leonard Bernstein, Humor in Music, 1962

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Leonard Bernstein, 1985
Laurie Anderson, 2023

TRUSTEES AWARDS
Aaron Copland, 1981