Gilles Gobeil has received awards at the following contests
- British Design & Art Direction, UK: 2002
- Brock University Tape Music Competition, St Catharines (Ontario, Canada): 1985
- Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Città di Udine, Udine (Italy): 2023
- Concorso internazionale Luigi Russolo di musica elettroacustica, Varèse (Italy): 1987, 1988, 1989
- Concours biennal de composition acousmatique Métamorphoses, Ohain (Belgium): 2000, 2002, 2022
- Concours de la SDE pour les jeunes compositeurs, Canada: 1984
- Concours international de composition électroacoustique de Monaco, Monaco (Monaco): 2014
- Concours international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, Bourges (Cher, France): 1988, 1989, 1999, 2009
- Concours international Électro-vidéo clip, Montréal (Québec): 1991
- Concurso de Composición Electroacústica Destellos, Mar del Plata (Argentina): 2011, 2012, 2015
- Concurso Internacional de Creación Electroacústica Ciber@RT, Valencia (Spain): 1999
- Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP), São Paulo (Brazil): 1997, 1999, 2001
- Festival Black & White, Porto (Portugal): 2009
- Musica Nova International Competition of Electroacoustic Music, Prague (Czech Republic): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Música Viva — Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica, Parede (Portugal): 2015
- NEWCOMP International Computer Music Competition, Boston (Massachusetts, USA): 1987
- Prix Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria): 1995, 2005
- Prix CIME: 2017
- Prix collégien de musique contemporaine, Québec: 2020, 2025
- Prix Opus, Québec: 2005
- Robert Fleming Award for Young Composers, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada): 1985
- SOCAN Award for Composers 30 Years of Age and Over, Canada: 1993
- Stockholm Electronic Arts Award, Stockholm (Sweden): 1994, 1997