Details & Performances
- Host: Reba McEntire
- Venue: Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
- City: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Date: May 21, 2003
Awards
Album of the Year
Best Bass
- Michael Rhodes
- Jimmy Lee Sloas
- Gary Lunn
- Mike Brignardello
- David Hungate
Best Drums
- Eddie Bayers
- Greg Morrow
- Paul Leim
- Shannon Forrest
- Steve Turner
Best Fiddle
- Aubrey Haynie
- Stuart Duncan
- Jonathan Yudkin
- Glenn Duncan
- Rob Hajacos
Best Steel Guitar
- Paul Franklin
- Dan Dugmore
- Scotty Sanders
- Sonny Garrish
- Bruce Bouton
Entertainer of the Year
Guitar
- Brent Rowan
- Jeff King
- Bryan Sutton
- Larry Beaird
- J.T. Carenflos
Humanitarian Award
Piano / Keyboards
- John Hobbs
- Tony Harrell
- Gordon Mote
- Steve Nathan
- Tim Akers
Producer of the Year
- Tony Brown
- Brent Rowan
- Keith Stegall
- Dann Huff
- James Stroud
Single of the Year
Song of the Year
- Douglas Johnson, Kim Williams, Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses
- Alan Jackson - Remember When Lyrics
- Jim Brown, Donald Rollins, Alan Jackson - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
- Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn - Red Dirt Road
- Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher, Kenny Chesney - There Goes My Life
Specialty Instrument
- Kirk Jelly Roll Johnson
- Eric Darken
- Jim Hom
- Russ Pahl
- Terry McMillan
Top Female Vocalist
Top Male Vocalist
Top New Artist
Top Vocal Duo
Top Vocal Group
Video of the Year
- Mark Kalbfeld, Michael Salomon, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson - Beer for My Horses
- Aris McGarry, Mark Romanek, Johnny Cash - Hurt
- Lori Stonebraker, Trey Fanjoy, Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
- Mark Kalbfeld, Peter Tilden, Peter Zavadil, Brad Paisley - Celebrity
- Steve Lamar, George Flanigan, Robert Deaton, Martina McBride - Concrete Angel
Vocal Event of the Year
- Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
- James Taylor, Alison Krauss - How's the World Treating You
- Phil Vassar, Huey Lewis, Byron Gallimore - Working for a Living
- Tracy Byrd, Andy Griggs, Blake Shelton, Montgomery Gentry - The Truth About Men
- Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris - Young Man's Town
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