Grammy Awards and nominations for Whitney Houston

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Whitney Houston is one of the biggest female singers of all time. Her accomplishments have been recognized with six competitive Grammy Awards, though she has been nominated twenty-five times. Below is a list of awards for which she has been nominated (and those that she won). Houston's wins will be noted after the nomination and nominated work.

• 1986
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "Saving All My Love for You" (win)
  • Album of the Year — Whitney Houston
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "You Give Good Love"

• 1987
  • Record of the Year — "Greatest Love of All"

• 1988
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (win)
  • Album of the Year — Whitney
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "Didn't We Almost Have It All"

• 1989
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "One Moment in Time"

• 1991
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "I'm Your Baby Tonight"

• 1992
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "All the Man That I Need"
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "I Belong to You"

• 1994
  • Album of the Year — The Bodyguard (win)
  • Record of the Year — "I Will Always Love You" (win)
  • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance — "I Will Always Love You" (win)
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "I'm Every Woman"

• 1997
  • Album of the Year — Waiting to Exhale
  • Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals — "Count on Me" (with CeCe Winans)
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"
  • Best Song Specifically Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"

• 1998
  • Best R&B Album — The Preacher's Wife
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "I Believe in You and Me"

Houston did not attend the 1998 Grammy Awards because she was unhappy with the fact that the soundtrack to The Preacher's Wife had been nominated in the R&B categories, and not in the gospel categories (since the soundtrack was a predominantly gospel album).

• 2000
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance — "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (win)
  • Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals — "When You Believe" (with Mariah Carey)
  • Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group — "Heartbreak Hotel" (with Faith Evans and Kelly Price)
  • Best R&B Album — My Love Is Your Love