Best Album Package – Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is an art director's award, recognizing excellence in the field of art and packaging for albums or singles. Eligible elements include package design, photography, and graphic art of the entire package and any materials included.

5th Annual Grammy Awards • 1963

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1961 and Aug 30, 1962

Lena Horne won the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Album Package – Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography with "Lena...Lovely And Alive"

Winners & Nominees 1963

Winner
Winner
Nominees

  • Lena...Lovely And Alive

    Robert M. Jones

  • The Intimate Bach

    Marvin Schwartz

  • Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin/Shostakovich: The Age Of Gold

    Jim Silke

  • Jazz Samba (Album)

    John Murello

  • Beethoven: Fidelio (Album)

    Marvin Schwartz

  • Faure: Requiem (Album)

    Marvin Schwartz

  • Lonely Woman (Album)

    Loring Eutemey

  • Otto Klemperer Conducts (Weill: Three Penny Opera Suite And Others) (Album)

    Marvin Schwartz

  • My Son, The Folk Singer (Album)

    Ken Kim

  • Potpourri Par Piaf (Album)

    Ed Thrasher

  • Wagner: Prelude And Love Death/R. Strauss: Death And Transfiguration (Album)

    Marvin Schwartz

  • The Comedy (Album)

    Loring Eutemey

  • The First Family (Album)

    Bill Longcore

  • The Great Years (Album)

    Jim Silke

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