Best Bandleader / Band

• The Buck Owen's Buckaroos Lyrics
• Billy Mize/The Tennesseans
• Carl Cotner
• Jerry Inman
• Merle Haggard/The Strangers

Best Bass

• Bob Moore
• Dale Bennett
• Don Pierce
• Curly Harris
• Doyle Holly

Best Drums

• Jerry Wiggins
• Willie Cantu
• Pee Wee Adams
• Muddy Berry
• Junior Nichols

Best Fiddle

• Billy Armstrong
• Jimmy Bryant

Best Lead Guitar

• Jimmy Bryant
• Joe Maphis
• Phil Baugh
• Glen Campbell Lyrics
• Billy Strange

Best Piano

• Billy Liebert
• Clyde Griffin
• George French
• Glen D. Hardin
• Jimmy Pruitt

Best Steel Guitar

• Ralph Mooney
• Tom Brumley
• Noel Boggs
• Fuzzy Owen
• Red Rhodes

Best Television Personality

• Billy Mize
• Rusty Draper
• Molly Bee
• Cathy Taylor
• Johnny Bond

Country Music Man of the Year

• Dean Martin Lyrics

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Bonnie Guitar
• Bonnie Owens Lyrics
• Jonie Mosby
• Molly Bee
• Kaye Adams

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Merle Haggard Lyrics
• Tex Williams
• Wynn Stewart Lyrics
• Glen Campbell Lyrics
• Roger Miller Lyrics
• Buck Owens Lyrics

Most Promising Female Vocalist

• Cathy Taylor
• Betty Foster
• Jeannie Black
• Alice Rene
• Faye Hardin

Most Promising Male Vocalist

• Billy Mize
• Bobby Austin
• Jerry Inman
• Eddy Downs
• Glenn Garrison
• Dick Curless
• Red Simpson

Most Promising Vocal Group

• Bob Morris & Faye Hardin
• The Leightons
• Del Smart & Sue Smart
• The LeGarde Twins
• Bobby Durham & Jeanie O'Neal

Song of the Year

• Bobby Austin, Fuzzy Owen, Johnny Paycheck - Apartment #9
• Roger Miller - Husbands And Wives Lyrics
• Merle Haggard - Swinging Doors Lyrics
• Billy Mize - Terrible Tangled Web
• Merle Haggard - The Bottle Let Me Down Lyrics
• Buck Owens - Waitin' In Your Welfare Line Lyrics

Vocal Group of the Year

• Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard
• Johnny Mosby & Jonie Mosby
• Canadian Sweethearts
• Joe Maphis & Rose Lee Maphis
• Everly Brothers Lyrics