PICTURES: The Best of the 2021 ACM Awards Red Carpet Bold fashion choices marked the best styles on the 2021 ACM Awards red carpet. It was a parade of talent that looked and felt much more celebratory than in 2020, with good reason. The Nashville-based awards show may be a far cry from the party country fans grew used to in Las Vegas, Nev., for so many years, but this year's ACM Awards are still a celebration, not an obligation. Expensive gowns and chic couture are clearly back in style — and on the red carpet, country music's biggest stars walked in shining, hoping to win one of the night's big prizes.