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Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Score

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An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score for the previous year. Prior to 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards.

1970s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
1970
22nd Canadian Film Awards
Harry Freedman The Act of the Heart [1]
1971
23rd Canadian Film Awards
Jean Cousineau Mon oncle Antoine [1]
1972
24th Canadian Film Awards
Pierre F. Brault The True Nature of Bernadette (La vraie nature de Bernadette) [1]
1973
25th Canadian Film Awards
Willie Lamothe, Tristan Hansinger, Chick Peabody, Peter Van Ginkel The Death of a Lumberjack (La mort d'un bûcheron) [1]
1974
No award presented [1]
1975
26th Canadian Film Awards
Nick Whitehead Lions for Breakfast [1]
1976
27th Canadian Film Awards
Lewis Furey Normande (La tête de Normande St-Onge) [1]
1977
28th Canadian Film Awards
Paul Hoffert Outrageous! [1]
1978
29th Canadian Film Awards
Oscar Peterson The Silent Partner [1]
Paul Zaza, Jim Caverhill Three Card Monte
Paul Hoffert The Third Walker
Maurice Marshall Marie-Anne

1980s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
1980
1st Genie Awards
Carl Zittrer, Paul Zaza Murder By Decree [1]
Hagood Hardy Jack London's Klondike Fever [2]
Paul Hoffert Wild Horse Hank
Alain Leroux It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Howard Shore The Brood
1981
2nd Genie Awards
Art Philips The Lucky Star [1]
Matthew McCauley Middle Age Crazy
John Mills-Cockell Terror Train
Kenneth Wannberg Tribute
1982
3rd Genie Awards
Claude Denjean, Stéphane Venne The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) [1]
Jean Cousineau Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) [3]
Micky Erbe, Maribeth Solomon Ticket to Heaven
Bo Harwood, Lance Rubin Happy Birthday to Me
1983
4th Genie Awards
Michael Conway Baker The Grey Fox [1]
Jonathan Goldsmith Visiting Hours [4]
Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe Threshold
1984
5th Genie Awards
Lewis Furey Maria Chapdelaine [1]
Michael Conway Baker Deserters
Joël Bienvenue Au clair de la lune
Karl Kobylansky Dead Wrong
André Vincelli A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
1985
6th Genie Awards
François Dompierre Mario [1]
J. Douglas Dodd, Michael Oczko Walls
Germain Gauthier The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques)
François Lanctôt Sonatine
Betty Lazebnik Reno and the Doc
Paul Zaza Isaac Littlefeathers
1986
7th Genie Awards
François Dompierre The Alley Cat (Le Matou) [1]
Lewis Furey Night Magic
Lewis Furey The Peanut Butter Solution
Philippe Sarde Joshua Then and Now
1987
8th Genie Awards
Michael Conway Baker John and the Missus [1]
Marie Bernard, Richard Grégoire Exit
Marvin Dolgay The Blue Man
1988
9th Genie Awards
Jean Corriveau Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit) [1]
Mychael Danna Family Viewing
Tim McCauley Blue City Slammers
1989
10th Genie Awards
Howard Shore Dead Ringers [1]
Aaron Davis, Billy Bryans Office Party [5]
François Dompierre The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
Richard Grégoire The Heat Line (La ligne de chaleur)
Osvaldo Montes Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu)
Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe Milk and Honey

1990s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
1990
11th Genie Awards
Yves Laferrière Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) [1]
Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna Cold Comfort
Mychael Danna Speaking Parts
Milan Kymlicka Babar: The Movie
Lawrence Schragge Palais Royale
1991
12th Genie Awards
Jean Corriveau The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) [1]
Marie Bernard Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
Georges Delerue Black Robe
Jonathan Goldsmith Diplomatic Immunity
Mark Korven White Room
1992
13th Genie Awards
Richard Grégoire Being at Home with Claude [1]
Michael Becker Solitaire
Graeme Coleman North of Pittsburgh
Pierre Desrochers The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine)
Howard Shore Naked Lunch
1993
14th Genie Awards
Simon Kendall Cadillac Girls [1]
Todd Boekelheide Digger [6]
Pierre Desrochers Women in Love (Les Amoureuses)
Mark Korven The Grocer's Wife
Yves Laferrière The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles)
1994
15th Genie Awards
Mychael Danna Exotica [1]
George Blondheim Whale Music
Mark Korven Henry & Verlin
Milan Kymlicka A Hero's Life (La Vie d'un héros)
Milan Kymlicka Matusalem
1995
16th Genie Awards
Milan Kymlicka Margaret's Museum [1]
Serge Arcuri, Luc Aubry Black List (Liste noire)
Aaron Davis, John Lang Rude
Richard Grégoire Water Child (L'Enfant d'eau)
Mark Korven The Michelle Apartments
1996
17th Genie Awards
Mark Korven Curtis's Charm [1]
Richard Rodney Bennett Swann
Normand Corbeil Screamers
Mychael Danna Lilies
Ron Sures Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997
18th Genie Awards
Mychael Danna The Sweet Hereafter [1]
François Dompierre The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal)
Serge Laforest, Gaëtan Gravel Night of the Flood (La nuit du déluge)
Robert Marcel Lepage The Human Plant (La Plante humaine)
Don MacDonald Kissed
1998
19th Genie Awards
John Corigliano The Red Violin [1]
Mychael Danna Regeneration
Jonathan Goldsmith Such a Long Journey
Mark Korven Cube
Alexina Louie, Alex Pauk Last Night
1999
20th Genie Awards
Mychael Danna Felicia's Journey [1]
John Wesley Chisholm, Michael Diabo, John Roby Beefcake [7]
Nick Dyer, Eric Cadesky Extraordinary Visitor
Jono Grant Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Maurice Jarre Sunshine

2000s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
2000
21st Genie Awards
Patric Caird Here's to Life!
Normand Corbeil The Art of War
Aaron Davis, John Lang Love Come Down
François Dompierre Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite)
Alan Reeves To Walk with Lions
2001
22nd Genie Awards
Chris Crilly Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner [8]
Alexander Balanescu Eisenstein
Bertrand Chénier Tar Angel (L'Ange de goudron)
Pierre Duchesne A Girl at the Window (Une jeune fille à la fenêtre)
Andrew Zealley, Don Pyle The Law of Enclosures
2002
23rd Genie Awards
Mychael Danna Ararat
Chris Ainscough Suddenly Naked
Michel Cusson The Collector (Le Collectionneur)
Glenn Morley Duct Tape Forever
Zbigniew Preisner Between Strangers
2003
24th Genie Awards
Christopher Dedrick The Saddest Music in the World
Michel Cusson Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)
Mychael Danna The Snow Walker
Richard Grassby-Lewis, Jon Hassell, Bob Locke, Tim Norfolk Owning Mahowny
Sandy Moore The Wild Dogs
2004
25th Genie Awards
Terry Frewer Head in the Clouds
Benoit Charest The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville)
Michel Corriveau The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier tunnel)
Pierre Duchesne Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)
Charles Papasoff So the Moon Rises (La lune viendra d'elle-même)
2005
26th Genie Awards
Mychael Danna Water
Mychael Danna Where the Truth Lies
Longo Hai, Geoff Bennett, Ben Johannesen Sabah
Éric Pfalzgraf Manners of Dying
Byron Wong Lie With Me
2006
27th Genie Awards
Jean Robitaille Without Her (Sans elle)
Normand Corbeil Cheech
Michel Cusson The Rocket (Maurice Richard)
Pierre Desrochers The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux)
Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson Beowulf & Grendel
2007
28th Genie Awards
Howard Shore Eastern Promises
David Hirschfelder Shake Hands with the Devil [9]
Steve London That Beautiful Somewhere
Don MacDonald Fido
Ryûichi Sakamoto Silk
2008
29th Genie Awards
John McCarthy The Stone Angel
Normand Corbeil Emotional Arithmetic
Laurent Eyquem Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)
Nikos Kypourgos Fugitive Pieces
Robert Marcel Lepage The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
2009
30th Genie Awards
Normand Corbeil The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)
Benoît Charest Polytechnique
Bertrand Chénier Love and Savagery
Christian Clermont 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des Ormes)
Ben Mink Fifty Dead Men Walking

2010s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
2010
31st Genie Awards
Pasquale Catalano Barney's Version
Brendan Canning Trigger
Jonathan Goldsmith High Life
Keegan Jessamy, Bryce Mitchell At Home by Myself...With You
Sook-Yin Lee, Buck 65, Adam Litovitz Year of the Carnivore
2011
32nd Genie Awards
Howard Shore A Dangerous Method
Ramachandra Borcar Suspicions (Jaloux)
Mychael Danna The Whistleblower
Martin Léon Monsieur Lazhar
Philip Miller The Bang Bang Club
2012
1st Canadian Screen Awards
Howard Shore Cosmopolis
Benoit Charest Mars and April (Mars et Avril)
Noia Laurence Anyways
Don Rooke, Hugh Marsh, Michelle Willis Still Mine
E. C. Woodley Antiviral
2013
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans Enemy
Ramachandra Borcar Rock Paper Scissors (Roche papier ciseaux)
Michel Cusson The Storm Within (Rouge sang)
Kim Gaboury, Michel Cusson Maïna
Gabriel Yared Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)
2014
3rd Canadian Screen Awards
Howard Shore Maps to the Stars
Patrice Dubuc, Gaëtan Gravel Meetings with a Young Poet
Patrick Lavoie Henri Henri
Dan Mangan, Jesse Zubot Hector and the Search for Happiness
Jeffrey Morrow Cast No Shadow
2015
4th Canadian Screen Awards
Michael Brook Brooklyn
Michel Corriveau Anna [10]
François Dompierre The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine)
Chris Gestrin Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
Stephen Rennicks Room
2016
5th Canadian Screen Awards
Todor Kobakov, Steve London, David Braid Born to Be Blue
Alain Mayrand Numb
Taymaz Saba Window Horses
Michael White Hevn (Revenge)
Jesse Zubot Two Lovers and a Bear
2017
6th Canadian Screen Awards
Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna The Breadwinner
Viviane Audet, Robin-Joël Cool, Alexis Martin Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)
Pierre-Philippe Côté Ravenous (Les Affamés)
Ben Fox Never Steady, Never Still
Terry Riley, Gyan Riley Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes)
2018
7th Canadian Screen Awards
Alaska B Through Black Spruce
Olivier Alary Allure
Philippe Brault The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor Black Kite
Yves Gourmeur The Hummingbird Project
2019
8th Canadian Screen Awards
Howard Shore The Song of Names
Robert Carli Lie Exposed [11]
Peter Chapman Riot Girls
Ian LeFeuvre, Stephen Krecklo James vs. His Future Self
Andrew Lockington The Kindness of Strangers

2020s

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Year Nominee Film Ref
2020
9th Canadian Screen Awards
Howard Shore Funny Boy [12]
Janal Bechthold Marlene [13]
Mychael Danna Guest of Honour
Jay McCarrol The Kid Detective
Michelle Osis, Lowell Boland Bloodthirsty
2021
10th Canadian Screen Awards
Jonathan Goldsmith All My Puny Sorrows [14]
Suad Bushnaq Jasmine Road [15]
Spencer Creaghan Motherly
Darren Fung Cinema of Sleep
Stephen Krecklo Between Waves
2022
11th Canadian Screen Awards
Todor Kobakov Brother [16]
Adrian Ellis Cult Hero [17]
Ian LeFeuvre Ashgrove
Ari Posner The End of Sex
Howard Shore Crimes of the Future
2023
12th Canadian Screen Awards
Jay McCarrol BlackBerry [18]
Alysha Brilla The Queen of My Dreams [19]
Suad Bushnaq Queen Tut
Steph Copeland Cascade
Ryan Shore Zombie Town

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
  2. ^ Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
  3. ^ Jay Scott, "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack: Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.
  4. ^ Jay Scott, "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner move". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1983.
  5. ^ Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989.
  6. ^ "The Lotus Eaters strong contender at Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 11, 1993.
  7. ^ Gayle MacDonald, "Sunshine floods Genies International co-production sweeps award nominations, with Felicia's Journey, Five Senses, eXistenZ also in running for best picture prize to be announced next month". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 1999.
  8. ^ "Inuit film runs away with five Genies; Atanarjuat takes best picture, director, screenplay, editing and original score". Waterloo Region Record, February 8, 2002.
  9. ^ "Genie Awards in brief". Daily Gleaner, March 3, 2008.
  10. ^ Brent Furdyk, "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
  11. ^ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
  12. ^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
  13. ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  14. ^ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  15. ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
  16. ^ Jenna Benchetrit, "Brother dominates with a dozen wins on third night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 13, 2023.
  17. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
  18. ^ Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Cinematic Arts". Broadcast Dialogue, May 30, 2024.
  19. ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.