1960s
- Grammy Awards of 1969
- Rod McKuen for Lonesome Cities
- Martin Luther King Jr. for I Have a Dream
- Martin Starkie for The Canterbury Pilgrims
- Paul Scofield for Murder in the Cathedral
- Grammy Awards of 1968
- Everett Dirksen for Gallant Men
- Hal Holbrook for Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3
- James Dickey for Poems of James Dickey
- Patrick Magee, Cyril Cusack for The Balcony
- Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw for A Man For All Seasons
- Rod McKuen for The Earth
- Victor Lundberg for An Open Letter to My Teenage Son
- Grammy Awards of 1967
- Edward R. Murrow for Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years
- Buddy Starcher for History Repeats Itself
- Johnny Sea for Day for Decision
- Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock for Death of a Salesman
- Grammy Awards of 1966
- Goddard Lieberson (producer) for John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him
- Adlai Stevenson for The Voice of the Uncommon Man
- Alec Guinness for A Personal Choice
- Chet Huntley, David Brinkley for A Time to Keep:'64
- Margaret Webster for The Brontes
- National Theatre of Great Britain for Much Ado About Nothing
- Grammy Awards of 1965
- That Was The Week That Was for BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy performed by the That Was the Week That Was cast
- John F. Kennedy, narrated by David Brinkley, introduction by Adlai Stevenson for The Kennedy Wit
- original cast with Alec Guinness, Kate Reid for Dylan
- Richard Burton (original cast: Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Ross) - Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole - Dialogue Highlights from Becket
- Grammy Awards of 1964
- Edward Albee (playwright) for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? performed by Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen & Arthur Hill
- Bertolt Brecht, (playwright) for Brecht on Brecht (original cast with Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya, Viveca Lindfor)
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (with Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Bob Dylan) for We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28,'63)
- Goddard Leiberson, producer (Pete Seeger and others) for The Badmen
- Norman Weiser, producer (David Teig, narrator) for John F. Kennedy - The Presidential Years
- Grammy Awards of 1963
- Charles Laughton for The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
- Carl Sandburg for Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry
- Claude Rains, reader; Glenn Gould, pianist for Enoch Arden (music by R. Strauss; poem by Alfred Tennyson)
- Laurence Harvey for This Is My Beloved
- Stan Kenton for Mama Sang a Song
- Grammy Awards of 1962
- Leonard Bernstein for Humor in Music
- Sandburg, Shapley, Nehru, Lipschitz for Wisdom, Vol. 1
- Alexander Scourby for The Coming of Christ
- Dorothy Parker for The World of Dorothy Parker
- Hal Holbrook for More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
- Grammy Awards of 1961
- Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks
- John Gielgud for Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time) Part 2 - Shakespeare
- Archibald MacLeish for J.B.
- Henry Fonda for Voices of the Twentieth Century
- Grammy Awards of 1960
- Carl Sandburg for A Lincoln Portrait
- Basil Rathbone - for Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes
- Hal Holbrook - for Mark Twain Tonight
- John Gielgud - for Ages of Man
- Tony Schwartz - for New York Taxi Driver
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