Best Album Graphics

• Streetheart - Meanwhile Back in Paris
• Prism - See Forever Eyes
• The Candelight & Wine Album - The Candelight & Wine Album
• Canadian Brass - Unexplored Territory

Best Children's Album

• Anne Murray - There's A Hippo in My Tub
• Sandy Offenheim - Are We There Yet?
• Sharon, Lois & Bram - One Elephant, Deux Elephants
• various artists - Canada's Favorite Folksongs

Best Classical Album of the Year

• Glenn Gould, Roxolana Roslak - Hindemith, Das Marienleben
• Liona Boyd - First Lady of the Guitar
• The Orford String Quartet - The Orford String Quartet
• Toronto Baroque Trio - A Baroque Boquet
• Toronto Symphony, Andrew Davis - Janacek Taras Bulba

Best Jazz Album

• Tommy Banks Big Band - Jazz Canada Montreaux 1978
• Humber College Jazz Ensemble - Big Band Jazz, Volume II
• Moe Koffman - Things Are Looking Up
• Pete Magadini - Bones Blues
• Ted Moses - More Than Ever
• Ted Moses - More Than Ever

Best Selling Album

• Burton Cummings - Dream of a Child
• Carroll Baker - 20 Country Classics
• Gordon Lightfoot - Endless Wire
• Rush - Hemispheres Lyrics
• Trooper - Thick as Thieves

Best Selling International Album

• Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Lyrics
• Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Lyrics
• Rod Stewart - Footloose & Fancy Free
• soundtrack, various artists - Grease

Best Selling International Single

• John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John - You're the One That I Want
• A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
• Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive Lyrics
• Bee Gees - Night Fever Lyrics
• Frankie Valli - Grease

Best Selling Single

• Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City
• Anne Murray - You Needed Me Lyrics
• Burton Cummings - Break It to Them Gently
• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch Lyrics
• Martin Stevens - Love Is In the Air

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

• Hank Snow Lyrics

Comedy Album of the Year

• The Air Farce - The Air Farce Album
• Alden Diehl - Fight On
• Nancy White - Civil Service Songwriter
• Nestor Pistor - Best of Nestro Pistor, N.P. for P.M.

Composer of the Year

• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch Lyrics
• Burton Cummings - Break It to Them Gently
• Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City
• Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
• Trooper - Raise a Little Hell

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

• Carroll Baker
• Colleen Peterson
• Marie Bottrell
• Laura Vinson
• Anne Murray Lyrics

Country Group or Duo of the Year

• The Good Brothers
• Carlton Showband
• Rhythm Pals
• The Emeralds
• The Mercey Brothers

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

• Ronnie Prophet
• Wilf Carter
• Ian Tyson Lyrics
• Jimmy Arthur Ordge
• R. Harlan Smith

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Carroll Baker
• Lisa Dal Bello
• Patsy Gallant
• Joni Mitchell Lyrics

Folksinger of the Year

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

Group of the Year

• Rush Lyrics
• Chilliwack
• Trooper
• Triumph Lyrics
• Prism

Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year

• Liona Boyd
• Hagood Hardy
• Black Light Orchestra
• Andre Gagnon
• Frank Mills

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Gino Vannelli Lyrics
• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Neil Young Lyrics
• Dan Hill Lyrics
• Burton Cummings

Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year

• Claudja Barry
• Roxanne Goldade
• Carolyne Bernier
• Ronney Abramson
• Denise McCann

Most Promising Group of the Year

• Doucette Lyrics
• Teaze
• Max Webster Lyrics
• Zon
• Streetheart

Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year

• Nick Gilder
• Marc Jordan
• Martin Stevens
• Pat Travers
• Rick James

Producer of the Year

• Gino Vannelli - Brother to Brother Lyrics
• Dan Hill - Frozen in the Night
• Bob Segarini - Gotta Have Pop
• Rush - Hemispheres
• David McClusky - McCluskey
• Richard T. Bear - Richart T. Bear

Recording Engineer of the Year

• Anne Murray - Let's Keep It That Way Lyrics
• Cooper Brothers - Cooper Brothers
• Dan Hill - Frozen in the Night
• Aura - Special Way
• Canadian Brass - Unexplored Territory