ACM Awards
winners since
1965

Every winner and nominee from the 1st ACM Awards to the 61st. Pick a year on the ruler, search an artist, song or album, or follow one award category through six decades.

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1994 30th ACM Awards

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Entertainer of the Year

Top Female Vocalist

Top Male Vocalist

Top Vocal Group

Top New Female Vocalist

Top New Male Vocalist

Top New Vocal Duet or Group

Album of the Year

Song of the Year

Single Record of the Year

Video of the Year

Bass

  • Winner Glenn Worf
  • Nominee David Hungate
  • Nominee Roger Wills

Drums

  • Winner Eddie Bayers
  • Nominee Lonnie Wilson
  • Nominee Steve Duncan

Fiddle

  • Winner Mark O'Connor
  • Nominee Rob Hajacos
  • Nominee Stuart Duncan

Guitar

  • Winner Brent Mason
  • Nominee Danny Groah
  • Nominee John Jorgenson

Keyboard

  • Winner Matt Rollings
  • Nominee John Hobbs
  • Nominee Monty Parkey

Specialty Instrument

  • Winner Terry McMillan
  • Nominee Billy Joe Walker
  • Nominee Jerry Douglas

Steel Guitar

  • Winner Paul Franklin
  • Nominee J.D. Maness
  • Nominee Robert Flint

Disc Jockey of the Year

  • Winner Gerry House
  • Nominee Carl P. Mayfield
  • Nominee Coyote Calhoun

Radio Station of the Year

  • Winner WSIX - Nashville, TN
  • Nominee KNIX - Phoenix, AZ
  • Nominee KZLA - Los Angeles, CA

Nightclub of the Year

  • Winner Billy Bob's Texas - Fort Worth, TX
  • Nominee Crazy Horse Steak House & Saloon - Santa Ana, CA
  • Nominee Grizzly Rose - Denver, CO

Talent Buyer/Promoter of the Year

  • Winner George Moffett
  • Nominee Bob Romeo
  • Nominee Gil Cunningham

Jim Reeves Memorial Award

  • Winner Garth Brooks

Pioneer Award

  • Winner Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn stands as one of the most dynamic and direct songwriters in Coun, try Music history. Her body of work has contributed countless classics, have made an indelible mark on Coun, try Music and has inspired generations of female artists to follow her amazing example. Early originals like “You Ai, n’t Woma, n Eno, ugh” and “Don’t Co, me H, ome A-Dr, inkin’ (With Lo, vin’ on Your Mi, d),” both released in 1966, are undisputed classics. Her catalog also offers chart-topping hits like “Fis, t Ci, ty,” “Ra, ted X” and of course, “C, oal Min, er’s Da, ugh, ter.” Her numerous ACM wins include Entert, ainer of the Ye, ar in 1975 and Artist of the Decade in 1979. A groundbreaking singer, songwriter and performer, Lore, tta L, ynn is an archetype of American music, a singular artist whose music defined a genre and whose songs continue to inform new gener, ations of musicians.