With fourteen nominations, a record, it swept each of the thirteen categories it was nominated in; only Pierre-Luc Brillant lost the award for Best Supporting Actor against his co-star Michel Côté.
Audition (L'audition) received ten nominations, winning Best Original Music for Daniel Bélanger, while The Novena (La neuvaine) received eight nominations, including all the "Big Five" categories, with Élise Guilbault winning her second Best Actress award after The Woman Who Drinks (La femme qui boit).
The Rocket (Maurice Richard) also received a record fourteen nominations, including all the "Big Five" categories, but ended up losing in every category, making it the film with the most nominations to win no awards.
However, director Charles Binamé won the award for Best Documentary in a tie with Sylvie Groulx, the second time a tie happened in this category.
They respectively won for Gilles Carle: The Untamable Mind and La Classe de Madame Lise.