Album of the Year

• Donna Fargo - Happiest Girl In the USA
• Freddie Hart - Bless Your Heart
• Mac Davis - Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
• Merle Haggard - Best of the Best
• Merle Haggard - It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
• Merle Haggard - Let Me Tell You About A Song

Band of the Year - Non-Touring

• Tony Booth Band
• Country Road
• Ronnie Truhett/Sound Company
• Leighton Band
• Billy Mize/The Tennesseans

Band of the Year - Touring

• The Strangers/Merle Haggard
• Po Boys
• Freddie Hart/Heartbeats
• The Buck Owen's Buckaroos Lyrics
• Danny Davis/Nashville Brass

Best Bass

• Larry Booth/AKA Larry Garner
• Red Wootten
• Jack Armstrong
• Billy Graham
• Dennis Hromek

Best Drums

• Jerry Wiggins
• Archie Francis
• Biff Adam
• Buddy Harmon
• Merle Shaver

Best Fiddle

• Billy Armstrong
• Doug Kershaw
• Don Rich
• John Gimble
• Tokyo Matsu

Best Lead Guitar

• Al Bruno
• James Burton
• Don Rich
• Roy Nichols
• Harold Bradley

Best Piano / Keyboard

• Floyd Cramer
• Jerry Lee Lewis Lyrics
• Earl Ball
• Jerry Smith
• Roscoe Horton
• Glen D. Hardin

Best Steel Guitar

• Buddy Emmons
• J.D. Maness
• Pete Drake
• Norman Hamlett
• Johnny Davis

Entertainer of the Year

• Roy Clark
• Loretta Lynn Lyrics
• Charley Pride Lyrics
• Freddie Hart Lyrics
• Merle Haggard Lyrics

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Donna Fargo Lyrics
• Dolly Parton Lyrics
• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Susan Raye Lyrics
• Loretta Lynn Lyrics

Jim Reeves Memorial Award

• Thurston Moore

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Merle Haggard Lyrics
• Tony Booth
• Charley Pride Lyrics
• Ray Price Lyrics
• Freddie Hart Lyrics
• Conway Twitty Lyrics

Man of the Year

• Lawrence Welk

Most Promising Female Vocalist

• Tanya Tucker Lyrics
• Jonie Mosby
• Bobbie Roy
• Sharon Leighton
• Kathy Smith

Most Promising Male Vocalist

• Johnny Rodriguez
• Red Steagall
• Larry Booth
• Little Joe Shaver
• Red Simpson

Pioneer Award

• Gene Autry
• Cliffie Stone

Single Record of the Year

• Donna Fargo - Happiest Girl In the USA
• Faron Young - Four in the Morning
• Jerry Wallace - If You Leave Me Tonight
• Johnny Rodriguez - Pass Me By
• Merle Haggard - It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) Lyrics

Song of the Year

• Donna Fargo - Happiest Girl In the USA
• Donna Fargo - Funny Face
• Freddie Hart - Bless Your Heart Lyrics
• Jean Chapel - To Get To You
• Jerry Chestnut - Four in the Morning

TV Personality

• Roy Clark
• Glen Campbell Lyrics
• Buck Owens Lyrics
• Merle Haggard Lyrics
• Jerry Reed Lyrics

Vocal Group of the Year

• The Statler Brothers Lyrics
• The Buck Owen's Buckaroos Lyrics
• Leightons
• Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
• Brush Arbor