Australians among 2015 Grammy winners

While Iggy Azalea and Sia weren't honoured at the 57th annual Grammy Awards, a handful of Australians were.

M-Phazes (aka Mark Landon, pictured) was an early winner today at Los Angeles' Staples Center; the Queensland producer’s work on Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP2 was recognised with the album picking up the Grammy for Best Rap Album and beating fellow Australian Iggy Azalea. In the 20 years of the award’s existence, Eminem has taken the Grammy home six times.

Azalea also lost out on the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her track Fancy with Charli XCX - the Grammy went to A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera for Say Something – as well as Best New Artist, which was won by 22-year-old Brit Sam Smith. Smith also took out the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album, for his ARIA #1 In The Lonely Hour.

Melbourne-based, South African-born composer Wouter Kellerman won the Grammy for Best New Age Album Of The Year for his collaboration with composer and producer Ricky Kej, Winds Of Samsara. NSW-based composer Fiona Joy-Hawkins wrote the track Grace, which appears on the album.

Another Australian tie-in taking home an early Grammy was the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director David Robertson who conducted The St Louis Symphony Orchestra for American composer John Adams’ City Noir. The piece won Best Orchestral Performance.

Our own AC/DC kicked off the awards, performing Highway to Hell. Sia, Katy Perry, Madonna, and Rihanna with Paul McCartney and Kanye West also performed.

Sia was up against Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and Hozier for the Record of the Year Grammy but it was the night's golden boy Sam Smith who took out the honour, for his global #1 Stay With Me.

The Grammys were broadcast in Australia by Foxtel.

See below for the full winner’s list:

Album of the Year
Beck - Morning Phase

Best Country Album

Miranda Lambert - Platinum

Best R&B Performance:
Beyoncé ft. Jay Z - Drunk In Love

Best Rock Album
Beck - Morning Phase

Best Pop Vocal Album

Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour 

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 Rock Performance 
Jack White – Lazaretto

Best Metal Performance 
Tenacious D – The Last In Line

Best Rock Song 
Paramore – Ain't It Fun Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters

Best Alternative Rock Album
St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Best Rap Performance 
Kendrick Lamar – I

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration 
Eminem Featuring Rihanna – The Monster

Best Rap Song
Kendrick Lamar - I
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters

Best Rap Album 
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2

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

Best R&B Song 
Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z - Drunk In Love
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyoncé Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters

Best Urban Contemporary Album 
Pharrell Williams – Girl

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 (Idina Menzel)

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 
I'm Not Gonna Miss You
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)

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 Hill
Morgan 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 
Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj) 
Break Free (Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd) 
Dark Horse (Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J) 
Problem (Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea) 
Shake It Off (Taylor Swift) 
Unconditionally (Katy Perry)

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

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

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

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

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
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer 
John Legend – All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)

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 (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

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