The biggest awards night for the music industry aired live on Sunday and among some of the crowd favorites were some surprise winners who beat out the bigger names of the evening.

Snagging the Grammy for Best New Artist was Aussie Sam Smith who made almost everyone tear up, just like he does with the moving love songs that earned him the award in the first place.


 

Other notable winners included Joan Rivers who posthumously won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word album, which her daughter, Melissa accepted on her behalf. 

"If my mother was here tonight, she would not only be honored and thrilled to be holding her first Grammy, she would most likely have it copied and on the air on QVC by 11," Melissa Rivers said as the audience laughed, remembering the funny woman.

Although the Queen B won the Grammy's for Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Surround Sound Album, the Best Album award eluded her for yet another year. That accomplishment was given to Beck instead for Morning Phase.

Keep reading for the full list of winners on Music's Biggest Night:

Song of the Year Sam Smith - Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)

Album of the Year Beck - Morning Phase 

Best New Artist Sam Smith

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera - Say Something

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Cheek To Cheek

Best Pop Solo Performance Pharrell Williams - Happy

Best Pop Vocal Album Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

Best Rock Performance Jack White - Lazaretto

Best Rock Album Beck - Morning Phase

Best Rock Song Paramore - Ain't It Fun

Best Alternative Rock Album St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Best Metal Performance Tenacious D - The Last In Line

Best Rap Performance Kendrick Lamar - I

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Eminem Featuring Rihanna - The Monster

Best Rap Song Kendrick Lamar - I

Best Rap Album Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2

Best R&B Performance Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z - Drunk In Love

Best Traditional R&B Performance Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner -Jesus Children

Best R&B Song Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z - Drunk In Love

Best Urban Contemporary Album Pharrell Williams - G I R L

Best R&B Album Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer - Bass & Mandolin

Best Dance/Electronic Album Aphex Twin - Syro

Best Dance Recording Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Frozen 
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Alexandre Desplat, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media Let It Go from Frozen 
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters

Best Country Album Miranda Lambert - Platinum

Best Country Solo Performance Carrie Underwood - Something In The Water

Best Country Duo/Group Performance The Band Perry - Gentle On My Mind

Best Country Song Glen Campbell - I'm Not Gonna Miss You

Best Bluegrass Album The Earls Of Leicester - The Earls Of Leicester

Best American Roots Performance Rosanne Cash - A Feather's Not A Bird

Best American Roots Song Rosanne Cash - A Feather's Not A Bird

Best Americana Album Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread

Best Folk Album Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy

Best Music Video Pharrell Williams - Happy

Best Music Film 20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith HillMorgan Neville, video director; Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers, video producers We Are From LA, video director; Kathleen Heffernan, Solal Micenmacher, Jett Steiger, video producers

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Max Martin 

Best Instrumental Composition John Williams - The Book Thief

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Pentatonix - Daft Punk

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Billy Childs - New York Tendaberry

Best Recording Package Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors 

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors 

Best Album Notes John Coltrane - Offering: Live At Temple University
Ashley Kahn 

Best Historical Album Hank Williams - The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer 

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Beck - Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical John Legend - All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer 

Best Surround Sound Album Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyoncé Knowles, surround producer

Best Regional Roots Music Album Jo-El Sonnier - The Legacy

Best Reggae Album Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta

Best World Music Album Angelique Kidjo - Eve

Best Children's Album Neela Vaswani - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

Best Musical Theatre Album Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers

Best Blues Album Johnny Winter - Step Back

Best Spoken Word Album Joan Rivers - Diary Of A Mad Diva

Best Comedy Album "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mandatory Fun

Best New Age Album Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman - Winds Of Samsara

Best Improved Jazz Solo Chick Corea - Fingerprints

Best Jazz Vocal Album Dianne Reeves - Beautiful Life

Best Jazz Instrumental Album Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Life In The Bubble

Best Latin Jazz Album Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - The Offense Of The Drum

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