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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

1963 • 5th Annual GRAMMY Awards

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

1963 Winner is Charles Laughton with "The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton"

The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

Nominees 1963

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Dalai Lama Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama All Nominees
2025 Jimmy Carter Last Sundays In Plains: A Centennial Celebration All Nominees
2024 Michelle Obama The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times All Nominees
2023 Viola Davis Finding Me All Nominees
2022 Don Cheadle Carry On: Reflections For A New Generation From John Lewis All Nominees
2021 Rachel Maddow Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, And The Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth All Nominees
2020 Michelle Obama Becoming All Nominees
2019 Jimmy Carter Faith - A Journey For All All Nominees
2018 Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist All Nominees
2017 Carol Burnett In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox All Nominees
2016 Jimmy Carter A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety All Nominees
2015 Joan Rivers Diary Of A Mad Diva All Nominees
2014 Stephen Colbert America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't All Nominees
2013 Janis Ian Society's Child: My Autobiography All Nominees
2012 Betty White If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) All Nominees
2011 Jon Stewart The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) All Nominees
2010 Michael J. Fox Always Looking Up All Nominees
2009 Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore) All Nominees
2008 Barack Obama The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream All Nominees
2007 Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis All Nominees
2007 Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together All Nominees
2006 Barack Obama Dreams From My Father (Senator Barack Obama) All Nominees
2005 Bill Clinton My Life All Nominees
2004 Al Franken Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right (Al Franken) All Nominees
2003 Maya Angelou A Song Flung Up To Heaven All Nominees
2002 Quincy Jones Q - The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones All Nominees
2001 Sidney Poitier The Measure Of A Man All Nominees
2000 LeVar Burton The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr. All Nominees
1999 Christopher Reeve Still Me All Nominees
1998 Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt's Spring All Nominees
1997 Hillary Rodham Clinton It Takes A Village All Nominees
1996 Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman All Nominees
1995 Henry Rollins Get In The Van - On The Road With Black Flag All Nominees
1994 Maya Angelou On The Pulse Of Morning All Nominees
1993 Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Robert O'Keefe What You Can Do To Avoid AIDS All Nominees
1992 Ken Burns The Civil War All Nominees
1991 George Burns Gracie - A Love Story All Nominees
1990 Gilda Radner It's Always Something All Nominees
1989 Jesse L. Jackson Speech By Rev. Jesse Jackson All Nominees
1988 Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days All Nominees
1987 Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson, Chips Moman Interviews From The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions All Nominees
1986 (Original Broadway Cast) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom All Nominees
1985 Ben Kingsley The Words Of Gandhi All Nominees
1984 William Warfield Copland: A Lincoln Portrait All Nominees
1983 (Various Artists) Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Movie On Record All Nominees
1982 Orson Welles Donovan's Brain All Nominees
1981 Pat Carroll Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein All Nominees
1980 John Gielgud Ages Of Man - Readings From Shakespeare All Nominees
1979 Orson Welles Citizen Kane All Nominees
1978 Julie Harris The Belle Of Amherst All Nominees
1977 Helen Hayes, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones Great American Documents All Nominees
1976 James Whitmore Give 'Em Hell Harry All Nominees
1975 Dudley Moore, Peter Cook Good Evening All Nominees
1974 Richard Harris Jonathan Livingston Seagull All Nominees
1973 (Original Cast) Lenny All Nominees
1972 Les Crane Desiderata All Nominees
1971 Martin Luther King Jr. Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam All Nominees
1970 Art Linkletter, Diane Linkletter We Love You Call Collect All Nominees
1969 Rod McKuen Lonesome Cities All Nominees
1968 Everett M. Dirksen Gallant Men All Nominees
1967 Edward R. Murrow Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers Vol. I The War Years All Nominees
1966 (John F. Kennedy) John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him All Nominees
1965 That Was The Week That Was (Cast) BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy All Nominees
1964 (Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard & Melinda Dillon) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? All Nominees
1963 Charles Laughton The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton All Nominees
1962 Leonard Bernstein Humor In Music All Nominees
1961 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) FDR Speaks All Nominees
1960 Carl Sandburg A Lincoln Portrait All Nominees
1959 Stan Freberg The Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows All Nominees

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