43rd Annual Grammy Awards
The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 2001, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 2000. Several artists earned three awards on the night. Steely Dan's haul included Album of the Year for Two Against Nature. U2 took home the Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Beautiful Day". Dr. Dre won Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Best Rap Album for Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem himself also received three awards, out of four nominations. Faith Hill took home Best Country Album for the album Breathe, Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song's title track and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Tim McGraw for "Let's Make Love". Madonna opened the show with "Music".
Performers
Presenters
- Heather Locklear and Kid Rock – presented Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- Ray Romano and Kevin James – presented Best Pop Vocal Album
- Joe, Jimmy Smits, and Toni Braxton – presented Best Rap Album
- Mýa and Sisqo – presented Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, and Gloria Estefan – presented Best Latin Pop Album
- Melissa Etheridge, Jenna Elfman, and Carson Daly – presented Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Dolly Parton and Brad Paisley – presented Best Country Album
- Shakira and Richie Sambora – presented Best New Artist
- Erykah Badu and Tony Bennett – presented Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Val Kilmer and Robbie Robertson – presented Best Native American Music Album
- Shelby Lynne and Sheryl Crow – presented Song of the Year
- Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell – presented Record of the Year
- Stevie Wonder and Bette Midler – presented Album of the Year
Winners and nominees
General
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
- Best Orchestral Performance
- * Stephen Johns, Mike Clements, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmonic for Mahler: Sym. No. 10
- Best Classical Vocal Performance
- * Christopher Raeburn, Jonathan Stokes, Cecilia Bartoli and Il Giardino Armonico for The Vivaldi Album
- Best Opera Recording
- * Martin Sauer, Jean Chatauret, Kent Nagano, Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Torsten Kerl and the Orchestre de l'Opera Nationale de Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust
- Best Choral Performance
- * Karen Wilson, Don Harder, Helmuth Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus for Penderecki: Credo
- Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
- * Grace Row, Charles Harbutt, Roger Norrington, Joshua Bell and the London Philharmonic for Maw: Violin Concerto
- Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
- * Tobias Lehmann, Jens Schünemann and Sharon Isbin for Dreams of a World
- Best Small Ensemble Performance
- * Christian Gausch, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Shadow Dances
- Best Chamber Music Performance
- * Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox and the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets
- Best Classical Contemporary Composition
- * George Crumb and Thomas Conlin for Crumb: Star-Child
- Best Classical Album
- * Da-Hong Seetoo and Max Wilcox and the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets
- Best Classical Crossover Album
- * Steven Epstein, Richard King, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor for ''Appalachian Journey''
Composing and arranging
Country
Film/TV/media
Folk
Gospel
Historical
Jazz
Latin
Musical show
Music video
- Best Long Form Music Video
- * Gimme Some Truth - The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album - Andrew Solt ; Greg Vines, Leslie Tong and Yoko Ono
- Best Short Form Music Video
- * "Learn To Fly" - Foo Fighters ; Jesse Peretz ; Tina Nakane
New Age
Packaging and notes
Polka
Pop
Production and engineering
;Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical- Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett and Roger Nichols for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan
- John M. Eargle for Dvorák: Requiem, Op. 89; Sym. No. 9, Op. 95 "From the New World"
- Dr. Dre
- Steven Epstein
- '''Hex Hector'''
R&B
Rap
Reggae
Rock
Spoken
Traditional pop
World
Special Merit Awards
- MusiCares Person of the Year
- * Paul Simon
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- * The Beach Boys
- * Tony Bennett
- * Sammy Davis Jr.
- * Bob Marley
- * The Who
Trivia
- The three awards Steely Dan won were their first ever career Grammy wins.
- Eminem's controversial The Marshall Mathers LP, which had several nominations, including Album of the Year, caused outrage. 200 protesters on behalf of GLAAD and other groups gathered outside the Staples Center to protest Eminem's album which they considered homophobic and sexist. He performed his hit single "Stan" as a duet with openly gay musician Elton John at the ceremony in response to these allegations. This version is also featured as the final track on Eminem's 2005 compilation Curtain Call: The Hits.