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Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)/Best Background Arrangement

2026 • 68th Annual Grammy Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2024 and Aug 30, 2025

2026 Winner is Nate Smith Featuring säje with "Big Fish"

Nominees 2026

Winners

Year Winner Work
2026 Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick, Nate Smith, Amanda Taylor Big Fish
2025 Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick, Amanda Taylor Alma
2024 Erin Bentlage, Jacob Collier, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick, Amanda Taylor In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
2023 Vincent Mendoza Songbird (Orchestral Version)
2022 Vincent Mendoza To The Edge Of Longing (Edit Version)
2021 Jacob Collier He Won't Hold You
2020 Jacob Collier All Night Long
2019 Mark Kibble, Randy Waldman, Justin Wilson Spiderman Theme
2018 Randy Newman Putin
2017 Jacob Collier Flintstones
2016 Maria Schneider Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
2015 Billy Childs New York Tendaberry
2014 Gil Goldstein Swing Low
2013 Thara Memory, Esperanza Spalding City Of Roses
2012 Jorge Calandrelli Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
2011 Christopher Tin Baba Yetu
2010 Claus Ogerman Quiet Nights
2009 Nan Schwartz Here's That Rainy Day
2008 John Clayton I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
2007 Jorge Calandrelli For Once In My Life
2006 Billy Childs, Gil Goldstein, Heitor Pereira What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
2005 Victor Vanacore Over The Rainbow
2004 Vincent Mendoza Woodstock
2003 Dave Grusin Mean Old Man
2002 Paul Buckmaster Drops Of Jupiter
2001 Vincent Mendoza Both Sides Now
2000 Alan Broadbent Lonely Town
1999 Herbie Hancock, Robert Sadin, Stevie Wonder St. Louis Blues
1998 Slide Hampton Cotton Tail
1997 Alan Broadbent, David Foster When I Fall In Love
1996 Rob McConnell I Get A Kick Out Of You
1995 Lebo Morake, Hans Zimmer Circle Of Life
1994 David Foster, Jeremy Lubbock When I Fall In Love
1993 Johnny Mandel Here's To Life
1992 Johnny Mandel Unforgettable
1991 Glen Ballard, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Clif Magness The Places You Find Love
1990 Dave Grusin My Funny Valentine
1989 Jonathan Tunick No One Is Alone
1988 Frank Foster Deedles' Blues
1987 David Foster Somewhere
1986 Nelson Riddle Lush Life
1985 David Foster, Jeremy Lubbock Hard Habit To Break
1984 Nelson Riddle What's New
1983 Jerry Hey, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro Rosanna
1982 Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones Ai No Corrida
1981 Christopher Cross, Michael Omartian Sailing
1980 Michael McDonald What A Fool Believes
1979 Maurice White Got To Get You Into My Life
1978 Ian Freebairn-Smith Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
1977 James Guercio, Jimmie Haskell If You Leave Me Now
1976 Ray Stevens Misty
1975 Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott Down To You
1974 George Martin Live And Let Die
1973 Michel Legrand What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
1972 Paul McCartney Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
1971 Ernie Freeman, Art Garfunkel, Jimmie Haskell, Larry Knechtel, Paul Simon Bridge Over Troubled Water
1970 Fred Lipsius Spinning Wheel
1969 Jimmy L. Webb Mac Arthur Park
1968 Jimmie Haskell Ode To Billie Joe
1967 Ernie Freeman Strangers In The Night
1966 Gordon Jenkins It Was A Very Good Year
1965 Peter Matz People
1964 Henry Mancini Days Of Wine And Roses
1963 Marty Manning I Left My Heart In San Francisco
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