A banda australiana AC/DC foi indicada em duas categorias do Grammy 2010: Best Hard Rock Performance (Melhor performance Hard Rock) com a música War Machine e também ao prêmio Best Rock Album (Melhor Álbum de Rock) com o álbum Black Ice. O produtor do último disco, Brendan O'Brien, também concorre ao prêmio de Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (Produtor do Ano, Não-Clássico). As produções indicadas ao Grammy são aquelas que foram lançadas entre 1° de outubro de 2008 e 31 de agosto de 2009 (inclusive). Segue a lista dos indicados nas citadas categorias:

Best Hard Rock Performance

(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

• War Machine

AC/DC

Track from: Black Ice

[Columbia]

• Check My Brain

Alice In Chains

Track from: Black Gives Way to Blue

[Virgin]

• What I've Done

Linkin Park

Track from: Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes

[Warner Bros.]

• The Unforgiven III

Metallica

Track from: Death Magnetic

[Warner Bros.]

• Burn It To The Ground

Nickelback

Track from: Dark Horse

[Roadrunner Records]

Best Rock Album

(Vocal or Instrumental. Includes Hard Rock and Metal.)

• Black Ice

AC/DC

[Columbia]

• Live From Madison Square Garden

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood

[Reprise/Duck]

• 21st Century Breakdown

Green Day

[Reprise]

• Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King

Dave Matthews Band

[RCA Records / Bama Rags Recordings, LLC.]

• No Line On The Horizon

U2

[Interscope]

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

(A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.))

• Brendan O'Brien

Black Ice (AC/DC) (A)

Crack The Skye (Mastodon) (A)

The Fixer (Pearl Jam) (S)

Killswitch Engage (Killswitch Engage) (A)

Working On A Dream (Bruce Springsteen) (A)

• T Bone Burnett

Moonalice (Moonalice) (A)

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Elvis Costello) (A)

• Ethan Johns

Gossip In The Grain (Ray LaMontagne) (A)

• Larry Klein

Acadian Driftwood (Zachary Richard) (T)

Bare Bones (Madeleine Peyroux) (A)

My One And Only Thrill (Melody Gardot) (A)

Our Bright Future (Tracy Chapman) (A)

Tide (Luciana Souza) (A)

• Greg Kurstin

It's Not Me, It's You (Lily Allen) (A)

Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (The Bird And The Bee) (A)