Best Album Graphics

• Short Turn - Short Turn
• Sandy Tobias Offenheim - Honey on Toats
• Moe Koffman - Museum Pieces
• Vehicle - Vehicle
• Rush - A Farewell To Kings Lyrics

Best Classical Album of the Year

• The Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Three Borodin Symphonies
• Steven Staryk, Jane Corwin - Staryk Plays Kreisler
• The Orford String Quartet - Ravel & Debussy String Quartets
• The Orford String Quartet - Mendelssohn Quartets Op. 12 & 13
• The Toronto Consort - To Syngen & Pleye

Best Jazz Album

• Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Big Band Jazz
• Don Thompson - Country Place
• Ed Bickert - Ed Bickert
• Moe Koffman - Museum Pieces
• Nimmons 'N Nine Plus Six - Transformations, Invocation

Best Selling Album

• Dan Hill - Longer Fuse
• Andre Gagnon - Le Saint Laurent
• Burton Cummings - My Own Way to Rock
• Rush - A Farewell To Kings Lyrics
• Stampeders - The Best of the Stampeders

Best Selling International Album

• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Lyrics
• Elvis Presley - Elvis - A Collector's Edition
• Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson - A Star is Born
• Boston - Boston Lyrics
• Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life Lyrics

Best Selling International Single

• Leo Sayer - When I Need You Lyrics
• Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
• Donna Summer - I Feel Love Lyrics
• Elvis Presley - My Way Lyrics
• Meco - Theme from Star Wars

Best Selling Single

• Patsy Gallant - Sugar Daddy
• April Wine - You Won't Dance With Me Lyrics
• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch Lyrics
• Patrick Norman - Let's Try Once Again
• The Raes - Que Sera Sera

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

• Oscar Peterson
• Guy Lombardo (posthumously)

Composer of the Year

• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch Lyrics
• Toulouse - It Always Happens This Way
• Burton Cummings - My Own Way to Rock
• Patsy Gallant - Sugar Daddy
• April Wine - You Won't Dance With Me Lyrics

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

• Carroll Baker
• Julie Lynn
• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Chris Nielsen
• Colleen Peterson

Country Group or Duo of the Year

• Good Brothers
• The Mercey Brothers
• Carlton Showband
• The Emeralds
• Burton & Honeyman

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

• Ronnie Prophet
• Jimmy Arthur Ordge
• Ray Griff
• Gary Buck
• Wilf Carter

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Patsy Gallant
• Carroll Baker
• Claudja Barry
• Joni Mitchell Lyrics
• Charity Brown

Folksinger of the Year

• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Valdy
• Murray McLauchlan
• Bruce Cockburn Lyrics
• Dan Hill Lyrics

Group of the Year

• Rush Lyrics
• Stampeders
• Trooper
• April Wine Lyrics
• Bachman - Turner Overdrive Lyrics

Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year

• Andre Gagnon
• Liona Boyd
• Blacklight Orchestra
• Moe Koffman
• Hagood Hardy

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Dan Hill Lyrics
• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Valdy
• Burton Cummings
• Gino Vannelli Lyrics

Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year

• Lisa Dal Bello
• Glory-Anne Carriere
• Alma Faye Brooks
• Roxanne Goldade
• Claudja Barry

Most Promising Group of the Year

• Hometown Band
• Blacklight Orchestra
• Jackson Hawke
• Prism
• Max Webster Lyrics

Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year

• David Bradstreet
• Peter Pringle
• Walter Rossi
• Malcolm Tomlinson
• Pat Travers

Producer of the Year - Album

• Dan Hill - Longer Fuse
• Rush - A Farewell To Kings Lyrics
• Chilliwack - Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
• Andre Gagnon - Le Ste. Laurent
• Stampeders - The Best of the Stampeders

Producer of the Year - Single

• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch Lyrics
• Patrick Norman - Let's Try Once Again
• The Raes - Que Sera Sera
• Patsy Gallant - Sugar Daddy
• April Wine - You Won't Dance With Me Lyrics

Recording Engineer of the Year

• Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Big Band Jazz
• KLAATU - Hope Lyrics
• Ron Paley - Boxton
• Murray McLauchlan - Hard Rock Town
• Doucette - Mama Let Him Play