Best Album

• Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Lyrics
• Amanda Marshall - Tuesday's Child Lyrics
• Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today Lyrics
• Celine Dion - These Are Special Times Lyrics
• Prozzak - Hot Show Lyrics

Best Album Design

• Andy Stockansky - Radio Fusebox
• Eve Egoyan - Thetihingsinbeteween
• I Mother Earth - Blue Green Orange Lyrics
• Jorane - Vent Fou
• Sloan - Between The Bridges Lyrics

Best Alternative Album

• Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
• Danko Jones - My Love Is Bold
• Len - You Can't Stop The Bum Rush Lyrics
• Thrush Hermit - Clayton Park
• Tricky Woo - Sometimes I Cry

Best Blues Album

• Ray Bonneville - Gust of Wind
• Chris Whiteley - Blues Party
• Jack de Keyzer - Down in the Groove
• Michael Jerome Browne - Michael Jerome Browne
• Steve Hill - Call It What You Will

Best Children's Album

• Sharon, Lois and Bram - Skinnamarink TV
• Douglas John - Ants In Your Pants, Volume 1
• Fanchon - Les Petites Merveiles de Fanchon
• Jam Sandwich - Play On...
• Susan Hammond's Classical Kids - Song of the Unicorn

Best Classical Album - Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment

• Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal - Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
• Angela Cheng, Hans Graf, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra - Nights in the Gardenss of Spain
• Anton Kuerti, Orchestre Metropolitain - Brahms: Two Piano Concertos
• Les Violons du Roy - Vivaldi: Concerti for Strings
• Tafelmusik - Handel: Arias and Dances Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina

Best Classical Album - Solo or Chamber Ensemble

• St. Lawrence String Quartet - Schumann: String Quartets
• Angela Hewitt - Bach: Well-Tempered Clarvier, Book 2
• Leila Josefowicz - For the End of Time
• Marc-Andre Hamelin - Rzewiski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
• Naida Cole - Naida Cole

Best Classical Album - Vocal or Choral Performance

• Ben Heppner - German Romantic Opera
• Daniel Taylor - Bach: Arias & Oboe d'Amore
• Edith Wiens, Rudolph Jansen, Judy Loman - Ae Fond Kiss
• karina Gauvin, Michael McMahon, Nora Shulman - Images de Noel
• Studio de Musique de Ancienne de Montreal - Heavenly Spheres

Best Classical Composition

• Alexina Louie - Shattered Night, Shivering Stars
• Alexina Louie - Arc
• Gary Kuleshha - The Book of Mirrors
• Glen Buhr - String Quartet No. 1
• Glen Buhr - Winter Poems

Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Instrumental

• D.D. Jackson - ...so far
• Bob Shaw & Freeflight - Freeflight
• Jean-Pierre Zanella - Puzzle City
• Jeff Johnston - The Field
• Joe Sealy & Paul Novotny - Blue Jade

Best Country Female Artist

• Shania Twain Lyrics
• Terri Clark Lyrics
• Lisa Brokop Lyrics
• Tara Lyn Hart
• Patricia Conroy

Best Country Group or Duo

• Rankins Lyrics
• Farmer's Daughter
• The Wilkinsons Lyrics
• Lace Lyrics
• Prairie Oyster

Best Country Male Artist

• Paul Brandt Lyrics
• Jim Witter
• Julian Austin
• John Landry
• Jamie Warren

Best Dance Recording

• Delerium - Silence Lyrics
• Emjay - Over and Over
• Joee - Arriba
• Steve Austin - The Rush Won't Stop
• Temperance - Dancing in the Key of Love

Best Female Artist

• Chantal Kreviazuk Lyrics
• Amanda Marshall Lyrics
• Lynda Lemay
• Celine Dion Lyrics
• Alanis Morissette Lyrics

Best Global Album

• Madagascar Slim - Omnisource
• Celso Machado - Jongo Le
• Lilison Di Kinara - Bambatula
• Show-Do-Man - Entente Cordiale
• Toronto Tabla Ensemble and Friends - Firedance

Best Gospel Album

• Deborah Klassen - Legacy of Hope
• Jon Buller - Sinner and the Saint
• Sheryl Stacey - Sheryl Stacey
• Sweetsalt - Sweetsalt
• The LaPointes - God Only Knows

Best Group

• Matthew Good Band Lyrics
• La Chicane
• Moist Lyrics
• Our Lady Peace Lyrics
• Tea Party Lyrics

Best Instrumental Album

• Natalie MacMaster - In My Hands
• David Bradstreet, Dan Gibson - Natural Sleep Inducement
• John Herberman, Dan Gibson - Piano Cascades
• Rob Crabtree, Oliver Schroer - The Piper's Legacy
• Robert Michaels - Utopia

Best Male Artist

• Bryan Adams Lyrics
• Choclair Lyrics
• Edwin Lyrics
• Paul Brandt Lyrics
• Tom Cochrane Lyrics

Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording

• Chester Knight & The Wind - Falling Down
• Elizabeth Hill - Love that Strong
• Fara - To Bring Back Yesterday
• Red Bull - World Hand Drum Champions '98
• Vern Cheecho - Touch the Earth and Sky

Best New Group

• Sky Lyrics
• Gob Lyrics
• Serial Joe Lyrics
• Len Lyrics
• Prozzak Lyrics

Best New Solo Artist

• Tal Bacchman
• Tory Cassis
• Jorane
• Tara Lyn Hart
• Ivana Santilli

Best Pop / Adult Album

• Chantal Kreviazuk - Colour Moving And Still Lyrics
• Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Lyrics
• Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today Lyrics
• Joni Mitchell - Taming The Tiger Lyrics
• Tal Bachman - Tal Bachman

Best Producer

• Tal Bachman - She's So High, If You Sleep
• The Tea Party - Heaven Comgin Down, The Messenger
• Crash Test Dummies - Keep A Lid On Things, Get You In the Morning
• Our Lady Peace - One Man Army, Is Anybody Home
• Kim Stockwood - Puzzle Girl, You & Me

Best R&B / Soul Recording

• 2Rude featuring Latoya & Miranda - Thinkin' About You
• Blacklisted featuring ORA, Taj and Deslisha Thomas - The Crab Theory
• Ivana Santilli - Brown
• Michael Clarke - All My Love
• Nodeja - Nodeja

Best Rap Recording

• Choclair - Ice Cold
• Citizen Kane - Deliverance
• Michie Mee with Esthero - Slave
• Rascalz - Global Warning
• Saukrates - Money or Love

Best Recording Engineer

• I Mother Earth - Summertime in the Void
• David Leask - Halfway to Heaven
• Bruce Cockburn; Lean on Your Peers - Last Night of the World
• Marc Jordan - Slow Bombing the World
• Prozzak, Supersex 69 - Sucks To Be You

Best Reggae Recording

• Lazo - Heart & Soul
• Choices - Sometimes
• The Luge Sessions - Hard End
• Willi Williams - Thanks and Devotion
• Andru Branch - What If I Told You

Best Rock Album

• Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight Lyrics
• Edwin - Another Spin Around The Sun Lyrics
• Moist - Mercedes Five And Dime Lyrics
• Our Lady Peace - Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
• Tea Party - Triptych Lyrics

Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group

• Blackie & The Rodeo Kings - Kings of Love
• Barachois - Encore!
• Great Big Sea - Turn Lyrics
• La Bottine Souriante - Xieme - Rock & reel
• ScruJ MacDuhk - The Road to Canso

Best Roots & Traditional Album - Solo

• Bruce Cockburn - Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu
• Jesse Winchester - Gentleman of Leisure
• Mary Jane Lamond - Lan Duil
• Natalie MacMaster - In My Hands
• Ron Sexmith - Whereabout

Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic

• Backstreet Boys - Millennium Lyrics
• Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Lyrics
• Celine Dion - These Are Special Times Lyrics
• Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin Lyrics
• Offspring - Americana Lyrics

Best Selling Francophone Album

• La Chicane - En Catimini
• Bruno Pelletier - D'Autres rives
• Jean Leloup - Les Fourmis
• Lynda Lemay - Live
• Various artists - Notre-Dame de Paris

Best Single

• Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon Lyrics
• Len - Steal My Sunshine Lyrics
• Matthew Good Band - Hello Timebomb Lyrics
• Prozzak - Sucks To Be You Lyrics
• Tea Party - Heaven Coming Down Lyrics

Best Songwriter

• Shania Twain Lyrics
• Bruce Cockburn Lyrics
• Alanis Morissette Lyrics
• Tal Bachman Lyrics
• Amanda Marshall Lyrics

Best Traditional Jazz Album - Instrumental

• Pat LaBarbera - Deep In A Dream
• Bernie Senensky Quintet - New Horizons
• P.J. Perry - P.J. Perry & The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
• Renee Rosnes - Art & Soul
• Time Warp - Time Warp Plays the Music of Duke Ellington

Best Video

• Alanis Morissette - So Pure Lyrics
• Matthew Good Band - Hello Timebomb Lyrics
• Big Sugar - ON the Scene
• Prozzak - Strange Disease Lyrics
• Moist - Underground Lyrics

Best Vocal Jazz Album

• Diana Krall - When I Look In Your Eyes Lyrics
• Carol Welsman - Swing Ladies, Swing!
• Jeri Brown - I've Got Your Number
• Karin Plato - There's Beauty in the Rain
• Kate Hammett-Vaughan - How My Heart Sings

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

• Bruce Fairbairn

International Achievement Award

• Sarah McLachlan Lyrics

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

• Emile Berliner