Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical

23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1979 – September 30, 1980

Pink Floyd won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical with "The Wall"

Winner

Nominees

Year	Winner	Title
1991	Bruce Swedien	Back On The Block	All Nominees
1990	George Massenburg	Cry Like A Rainstorm - Howl Like The Wind	All Nominees
1989	Tom Lord-Alge	Roll With It	All Nominees
1988	Humberto Gatica, Bruce Swedien	Bad	All Nominees
1987	Jason Corsaro, Tom Lord-Alge	Back In The High Life	All Nominees
1986	Neil Dorfsman	Brothers In Arms	All Nominees
1985	Humberto Gatica	17	All Nominees
1984	Bruce Swedien	Thriller	All Nominees
1983	Tom Knox, Greg Ladanyi, David Leonard, Al Schmitt	Toto IV	All Nominees
1982	Jerry Garszva, Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Bill Schnee	Gaucho	All Nominees
1981	James Guthrie	The Wall	All Nominees
1980	Peter Henderson	Breakfast In America	All Nominees
1979	Roger Nichols, Al Schmitt	FM (No Static At All)	All Nominees
1978	Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee	Aja	All Nominees
1977	Al Schmitt	Breezin'	All Nominees
1976	Larry Alexander, Brooks Arthur, Russ Payne	Between The Lines	All Nominees
1975	Geoff E. Emerick	Band On The Run	All Nominees
1974	Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff	Innervisions	All Nominees
1973	Armin Steiner	Moods	All Nominees
1972	Henry Bush, Ron Capone, Dave Purple	Theme From Shaft	All Nominees
1971	Roy Halee	Bridge Over Troubled Water	All Nominees
1970	Geoff E. Emerick, Philip McDonald	Abbey Road	All Nominees
1969	Hugh Davies, Joe Polito	Wichita Lineman	All Nominees
1968	Geoff E. Emerick	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	All Nominees
1967	Eddie Brackett, Lee Herschberg	Strangers In The Night	All Nominees
1966	Larry Levine	A Taste Of Honey	All Nominees
1965	Phil Ramone	Getz/Gilberto	All Nominees