1980s
- Grammy Awards of 1989
- Jesse Jackson for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson
- John Gielgud for A Christmas Carol
- Jonathan Winters for Winters' Tale
- various artists, Garrison Keillor for A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance
- John Cleese for The Screwtape Letters
- Grammy Awards of 1988
- Garrison Keillor for Lake Wobegon Days
- Katharine Hepburn for Lincoln Portrait - track from Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait and Other Works
- Lauren Bacall for Lauren Bacall by Myself
- Leonard Nimoy for Whales Alive
- Leonard Nimoy, George Takei for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Grammy Awards of 1987
- Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
- Bill Cosby for Hardheaded Boys
- F. Murray Abraham for Interview with the Vampire
- John Gielgud for Gulliver
- Ray Bradbury for The Stories of Ray Bradbury
- Grammy Awards of 1986
- Mike Berniker (producer) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Alan Arkin for Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Dick Cavett for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- John Le Carre for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
- Philip Roth for Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth
- Grammy Awards of 1985
- Ben Kingsley for The Words of Gandhi
- Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close for The Real Thing (Broadway Cast)
- John Lennon, Yoko Ono for Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue)
- Rev. Jesse Jackson for Our Time Has Come
- Grammy Awards of 1984
- William Warfield for Copland: A Lincoln Portrait
- Jane Fonda, Femmy De Lyser for Jane Fonda's Workout Record for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
- John Gielgud, Irene Worth for Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers
- Grammy Awards of 1983
- Tom Voegeli (producer) for Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Movie on Record performed by various artists
- Grammy Awards of 1982
- Orson Welles for Donovan's Brain
- Paul McCartney; Vic Garbarini (interviewer) for The McCartney Interview
- E.G. Marshall for Justice Holmes' Decisions
- Ed McMahon for 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- James Mason for Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
- Grammy Awards of 1981
- Pat Carroll for Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
- Mahalia Jackson for I Sing Because I'm Happy, Vols. 1 and 2
- original cast with narration - Adventures of Luke Skywalker: The Empire Strikes Back
- Orson Welles for Obediently Yours/Orson Welles
- Peter Ustinov for A Curb in the Sky (James Thurber)
- Grammy Awards of 1980
- John Gielgud for Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare
- Henry Fonda for The Ox-Bow Incident
- Jim Morrison for An American Player
- Ken Nordine for Stare with Your Ears
- Original motion picture soundtrack for Apocalypse Now
- Orson Welles, Helen Hayes for Orson Welles/Helen Hayes at Their Best
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