Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Score
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
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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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
1990s
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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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 | 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
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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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
2020s
Year | Nominee | Film | Ref |
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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 | |||
Alysha Brilla | The Queen of My Dreams | [18] | |
Suad Bushnaq | Queen Tut | ||
Steph Copeland | Cascade | ||
Jay McCarrol | BlackBerry | ||
Ryan Shore | Zombie Town |
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack: Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner move". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1983.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989.
- ^ "The Lotus Eaters strong contender at Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 11, 1993.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Inuit film runs away with five Genies; Atanarjuat takes best picture, director, screenplay, editing and original score". Waterloo Region Record, February 8, 2002.
- ^ "Genie Awards in brief". Daily Gleaner, March 3, 2008.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
- ^ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
- ^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
- ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
- ^ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
- ^ Jenna Benchetrit, "Brother dominates with a dozen wins on third night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 13, 2023.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
- ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.
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Note: Awards by year articles are listed here by the year of eligibility for nomination; due to variable scheduling of the ceremonies, this is not always the same year in which the awards were presented.
Note: Awards by year articles are listed here by the year of eligibility for nomination; due to variable scheduling of the ceremonies, this is not always the same year in which the awards were presented.