| Entertainer of the Year | Album of the Year |
Shania Twain
| A Place In The Sun —'' Tim McGraw* Always Never The Same — George Strait* The Key — Vince Gill* Two Teardrops — Steve Wariner* Where Your Roads Lead — Trisha Yearwood |
| Male Vocalist of the Year | Female Vocalist of the Year |
| Tim McGraw* Vince Gill* Alan Jackson* George Strait* Steve Wariner | Martina McBride* Faith Hill* Jo Dee Messina* Shania Twain* Trisha Yearwood |
| Vocal Group of the Year | Vocal Duo of the Year |
| Dixie Chicks* Alabama* Diamond Rio * Lonestar* The Wilkinsons | Brooks & Dunn* The Kinleys* The Lynns* Montgomery Gentry* The Warren Brothers |
| Single of the Year | Song of the Year |
| "Wide Open Spaces" —'' Dixie Chicks* "Amazed" — Lonestar* "Choices" — George Jones* "Don't Laugh At Me" — Mark Wills* "Please Remember Me" — Tim McGraw | "This Kiss" — Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff, and Beth Nielsen Chapman* "Don't Laugh At Me" — Allen Shamblin and Steve Seskin* "Husbands And Wives" — Roger Miller* "If You Ever Have Forever In Mind" — Vince Gill and Troy Seals* "Please Remember Me" — Rodney Crowell and Will Jennings |
| Horizon Award | Musician of the Year |
Jo Dee Messina * Kenny Chesney* Sara Evans* The Wilkinsons* Chely Wright
| Randy Scruggs
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| Music Video of the Year | Music Event of the Year |
| "Wide Open Spaces" — Dixie Chicks* "Don't Laugh At Me" — Mark Wills* "How Forever Feels" — Kenny Chesney* "I'll Go On Loving You" — Alan Jackson* "Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me" — Tim McGraw and Faith Hill | My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man — Vince Gill and Patty Loveless*No Place That Far — Sara Evans and Vince Gill* Old Dogs — Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare and Jerry Reed* Same Old Train — Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss,Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt and Dwight Yoakam
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