Video of the Year:
* Trace Adkins – “You’re Gonna Miss This”
* Kenny Chesney featuring The Wailers – “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
* Toby Keith – “God Love Her”
* Kid Rock – “All Summer Long”
* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin’ for a Good Time”
* Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ on a Woman”
* Rascal Flatts – “Every Day”
* Sugarland – “All I Want to Do”
* Taylor Swift – “Love Story”
* Carrie Underwood – “Just a Dream”
Male Video of the Year:
* Trace Adkins – “You’re Gonna Miss This”
* Toby Keith – “God Love Her”
* Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ on a Woman”
* Keith Urban – “Sweet Thing”
Female Video of the Year:
* Miranda Lambert – “More Like Her”
* Martina McBride – “Ride”
* Kellie Pickler – “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful”
* Taylor Swift – “Love Story”
Group video of the Year:
* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin’ for a Good Time”
* Rascal Flatts – “Bob That Head”
* Rascal Flatts – “Every Day”
* Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried”

Duo Video of the Year:

* Brooks & Dunn – “Put a Girl in It”
* Montgomery Gentry – “Roll With Me”
* Sugarland – “All I Want to Do”
* Sugarland – “Already Gone”

USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year:

* Julianne Hough – “That Song in My Head”
* Jamey Johnson – “In Color”
* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin for a Good Time”
* Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried”

Collaborative Video of the Year:

* Brooks & Dunn featuring Reba McEntire – “Cowgirls Don’t Cry”
* Kenny Chesney featuring The Wailers – “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
* Brad Paisley with Keith Urban – “Start a Band”
* Sugarland featuring Little Big Town and Jake Owen – “Life in a Northern Town”

CMT Performance of the Year:

* Alan Jackson featuring Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley and George Strait – “Country Boy” from CMT Giants: Alan Jackson
* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” from CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
* Sugarland featuring Little Big Town and Jake Owen – “Life in a Northern Town” from 2008 CMT Music Awards
* Def Leppard and Taylor Swift – “Photograph” from CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift

Wide Open Country Video of the Year:

* Def Leppard and Taylor Swift – “Photograph”
* Kid Rock – “All Summer Long”
* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – “Please Read the Letter”
* REHAB featuring Hank Williams Jr. – “Bartender Song”

Video Director of the Year:

* Deaton Flanigen
* Trey Fanjoy
* Roman White
* Peter Zavadil