Album of the Year

• Anne Murray - New Kind of Feeling
• Prism - Armageddon
• Rush - Hemispheres Lyrics
• Trooper - Hot Shots
• Trooper - Flying Colours

Best Album Graphics

• The Wives - Cigarettes
• Segarini - Good-Bye LA

Best Children's Album

• Sharon, Lois & Bram - Smorgasbord
• Ernie Coombes - Mr. Dress Up, For a Song
• Sandra Beech - Chickery Chick
• All the Performers of the Mariposa in the Schools Program - Going Bananas
• Brenda & Paul Hoffert - I Lost My Pet Lizard

Best Classical Album of the Year

• Judy Loman, R. Murray Schafer - The Crown of Ariadne
• Kath Terrell, Jean MacPhail, Susan Gudgeon, Mary Lou Fallis, Chamber Orchestra, Robert Aitken - Loving
• Raffi Armenian, Maureen Forrester - The Stratford Ensemble
• Robert Aitken, Greta Kraus - Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord No. 1,2,3
• The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis - The Nutcracker Suite

Best Jazz Album

• Ed Bickert, Don Thompson - Sackville 4005
• Jim Galloway - Walking On Air
• Michael Stewart, Keith Blackley - Determination
• Oscar Peterson - Night Child
• Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass Again

Best Selling International Album

• Supertramp - Breakfast in America
• Boney M - Nighflight to Venus
• Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun
• The Knack - Get the Knack
• Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown

Best Selling International Single

• Blondie - Heart Of Glass Lyrics
• Chic - Le Freak Lyrics
• Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive Lyrics
• Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy Lyrics
• Village People - Ymca Lyrics

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

• Paul Anka Lyrics

Comedy Album of the Year

• Rich Little - A Christmas Carol
• Al Clouston - Cinderelly
• Eric Peterson - Billy Bishop Goes to War
• Nestor Pistor - Nestor Pistor
• Steve Ivings - Steve's Record

Composer of the Year

• Frank Mills - Peter Piper
• Trooper - 3 Dressed Up as A 9
• Gino Soccio - Dancer
• Freddie James - Everybody Get Up and Boogie
• Trooper - The Boys in the Bright White Sportscar

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Marie Bottrell
• Iris Larratt
• Glory-Anne Carriere
• Carroll Baker

Country Group or Duo of the Year

• The Good Brothers
• Family Brown
• The Mercey Brothers
• Carlton Showband
• The Emeralds

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

• Murray McLauchlan
• Ronnie Prophet
• Wilf Carter
• Eddie Eastman
• Ray Griff

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Carroll Baker
• Lisa Dal Bello
• Claudja Barry
• Joni Mitchell Lyrics

Folk Artist of the Year

• Bruce Cockburn Lyrics
• Murray McLauchlan
• Joni Mitchell Lyrics
• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Valdy

Group of the Year

• Trooper
• Prism
• April Wine Lyrics
• Max Webster Lyrics
• Rush Lyrics

Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year

• Frank Mills
• Andre Gagnon
• Liona Boyd
• Hagood Hardy
• Gino Soccio

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Burton Cummings
• Gino Vannelli Lyrics
• Murray McLauchlan
• Bruce Cockburn Lyrics
• Neil Young Lyrics

Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year

• France Joli
• Karen Silver
• Nana McLean
• Laura Vinson
• Alma Faye Brooks

Most Promising Group of the Year

• Streetheart
• F.M.
• Teaze
• Minglewood Band
• The Raes

Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year

• Walter Rossi
• Gary Fjellgaard
• Freddie James
• Richard Stepp
• Bryan Adams Lyrics

Producer of the Year

• Prism - Armageddon
• Domenic Troiano - Fret Fever
• Wilson Pickett - I Want You
• Saga - Images at Twilight
• Hellfield - Night Music

Recording Engineer of the Year

• Paul Hoffert - Concerto for Contemporary Violin
• Karen Silver - Hold On I'm Comin'
• Max Webster - Let's Go on the Line
• Max Webster - Paradise Skies Lyrics
• Bill McCauley - Riel Soundtrack
• April Wine - Say Hello Lyrics
• Hagood Hardy - The Birdwalk
• Streetheart - Under My Thumb

Single of the Year

• Anne Murray - I Just Fall in Love Again Lyrics
• Claudja Barry - Boogie Woogy Dancin Shoes
• Freddie James - Get Up and Boogie
• Martin Stevens - Midnight Music
• Streetheart - Under My Thumb