Album of the Year

• k.d. lang - Ingenue
• Barenaked Ladies - Gordon Lyrics
• Blue Rodeo - Lost Together Lyrics
• Celine Dion - Celine Dion Lyrics
• The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

Best Album Design

• Blue Rodeo - Lost Together Lyrics
• Holly Cole Trio - Blame It On My Youth
• Bootsauce - Bull
• 54*40 - Dear Dear
• SkyDiggers - Restless

Best Children's Album

• Jack Grunsky - Waves of Wonder
• Al Simmons - Something's Fishy at Camp Wiganishie
• Carmen Campagne - Reves Multicolores
• Classical Kids - Daydreams & Lullabies
• Norman Foote - If the Shoe Fits

Best Classical Album - Large Ensemble

• Tafelmusik, Alan Curtis, Catherine Robbin, Linda Maguire, Nancy Argenta, Ingrid Attrot, Mel Braun, Jeanne Lamon - Handel: Excerpts from Floridante
• Louis Lortie - Schumann & Chopin: Piano Concertos
• Orchestre symphonique de Montreal - Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kije
• Orchestre symphonique de Montreal - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
• Tafelmusik - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 4, 51 & 52

Best Classical Album - Solo or Chamber Ensemble

• Louis Lortie - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
• Antonin Kubalek - Brahms: Piano Music Vol. 2
• Catherine Robbin, Michael McMahon - Schumann: Liederkreise
• Daniel Lichti, Arlene Shrut - Songs of Hugo Wolf
• Kevin McMillan, Michael McMahon - Lieder on Poems of Heinrich Heine

Best Classical Composition

• R. Murray Schafer - Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
• Claude Vivier - Kopernikus
• Jean Coulthard - Music to St. Cecilia for Organ and Strings
• R. Murray Schafer - Theseus
• R. Murray Schafer - The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller

Best Dance Recording

• Celine Dion - Love Can Move Mountains Lyrics
• Banned in the UK - C'mon and Get My Love
• Lisa Lougheed - World Love
• Lisa Lougheed - Love Vibe
• Love & Sas - Don't Stop Now

Best Jazz Album

• P.J. Perry - My Ideal
• John Stetch - Rectangle Man
• Mike Murley - Time & Tide
• Oscar Peterson Trio - Last Call at the Blue Note
• Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Brassy and Sassy

Best R&B / Soul Recording

• Love & Sas - Once in a Lifetime
• Debbie Johnson - Power to the People
• Lorraine Scott - If That Was A Dream
• Nylons - Don't Look Any Further Lyrics
• Vivienne Williams - Infatuated

Best Rap Recording

• Devon - Keep It Slammin'
• Maestro Fresh-Wes - The Maestro Zone
• Organized Rhyme - Check the O.R.
• Ragga Muffin Rascals - Really Livin'
• The Maximum Definitive - The Jungle Man

Best Roots & Traditional Album

• La Bottine Sourainte - Jusqu'aux P'tites Heures
• Bourne & MacLeod - Moonlight Dancers
• Daniel Koulack - Clawhammer Your Way to the Top
• Jackson Delta - I Was Just Thinking That
• Ken Whiteley, Jackie Washington, Mose Scarlett - Where Old Friends Meet

Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic

• Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours Lyrics
• Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All
• Nirvana - Nevermind Lyrics
• Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World Lyrics
• U2 - Achtung Baby Lyrics

Best Selling Francophone Album

• Celine Dion - Dion Chante Plamondon Lyrics
• Francis Martin - Quand On Se Donne
• Julie Masse - A Contre-Jour
• Richard Seguin - Aux Portes du Matin

Best Selling Single - Foreign or Domestic

• Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart Lyrics
• K.W.S. - Please Don't Go
• Kris Kross - Jump
• Michael Jackson - Black Or White Lyrics
• Klf - Justified & Ancient Lyrics

Best Video

• Leonard Cohen - Closing Time Lyrics
• Mae Moore - Bohemia
• Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car Lyrics
• Tom Cochrane - No Regrets Lyrics
• 54*40 - She La

Best World Beat Recording

• Jane Bunnett - Spirits of Havana
• Kaleefah - Listen to the World
• Salvador Ferreras - Invisible Minority
• Sattalites - All Over the World
• Show-Do-Man - The Prodigal Son

Canadian Entertainer of the Year

• Tragically Hip Lyrics
• Tom Cochrane Lyrics
• Celine Dion Lyrics
• Bryan Adams Lyrics
• Barenaked Ladies Lyrics

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

• Anne Murray Lyrics

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

• Michelle Wright Lyrics
• Sylvia Tyson
• Susan Graham
• Lisa Brokop Lyrics
• Patricia Conroy

Country Group or Duo of the Year

• Tracey Prescott & Lonesome Daddy
• Gary Fjellgaard & Linda Kidder
• Country Hearts
• Straight Clean & Simple
• Rock 'N Horse Band

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

• Gary Fjellgaard
• Tim Taylor
• Tom Russell Lyrics
• Larry Mercey
• Don Neilson

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Celine Dion Lyrics
• Sass Jordan
• Michelle Wright Lyrics
• K. D. Lang Lyrics
• Rita MacNeil

Group of the Year

• Barenaked Ladies Lyrics
• 54-40 Lyrics
• Les B.B.
• Blue Rodeo Lyrics
• Tragically Hip Lyrics

Hard Rock Album of the Year

• Slik Toxik - Doin' the Nasty
• Killer Dwarfs - Method to the Madness
• Sven Gali - Sven Gali
• Triumph - Edge of Excess
• Voivod - Angel Rat Lyrics

Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year

• Ofra Harnoy
• John Arpin
• Skywalk
• Manteca
• Exchange

International Entertainer of the Year

• U2 Lyrics
• Red Hot Chili Peppers Lyrics
• Garth Brooks Lyrics
• Genesis Lyrics
• Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Leonard Cohen Lyrics
• Kim Mitchell
• Francis Martin
• Corey Hart Lyrics
• Neil Young Lyrics

Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year

• Julie Masse
• Sue Foley
• Sofia Shinas
• Priscilla Wright
• Lisa Brokop Lyrics

Most Promising Group of the Year

• Skydiggers
• Slik Toxik
• Sven Gali
• Lost & Profound
• Pure

Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year

• John Bottomley
• Steve Fox
• John Mcdermott Lyrics
• Don Neilson
• Devon Lyrics

Producer of the Year

• k.d. lang - Constant Craving, The Mind of Love
• Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses, Keep the Faith
• Leonard Cohen - Closing Time, The Future
• Gino Vannelli - Living Inside Myself, I Just Want to Stop
• Alannah Myles - Song Instead of a Kiss, Tumbleweeds

Recording Engineer of the Year

• Loreena McKennitt - The Lady of Shallott
• k.d. lang - Constant Craving, The Mind of Love
• Michelle Wright; A Woman's Intuition - He Would Be Sixteen
• Bon Jovi - Keep the Earth, Bed or Roses
• Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Strike Up the Band, Very Early

Single of the Year

• Celine Dion, Peabo Bryson - Beauty and the Beast
• Alannah Myles Lyrics
• Barnaked Ladies
• Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven Lyrics
• Celine Dion - If You Asked Me To Lyrics

Songwriter of the Year

• k.d. lang, Ben Mink
• Joan Besen
• Tom Cochrane Lyrics
• Bryan Adams Lyrics
• Neil Young Lyrics

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

• Brian Robertson