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

1980s[]

Year	Nominee	Film
1980 1st Genie Awards
	, Paul Zaza	Murder By Decree
	Hagood Hardy	Jack London's Klondike Fever
	Paul Hoffert	Wild Horse Hank
		It Rained All Night the Day I Left
	Howard Shore	The Brood
1981 2nd Genie Awards
		The Lucky Star
	Matthew McCauley	Middle Age Crazy
	John Mills-Cockell	Terror Train
	Kenneth Wannberg	Tribute
1982 3rd Genie Awards
	, Stéphane Venne	The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)
		Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs)
	Micky Erbe, Maribeth Solomon	Ticket to Heaven
	Bo Harwood,	Happy Birthday to Me
1983 4th Genie Awards
	Michael Conway Baker	The Grey Fox
	Jonathan Goldsmith	Visiting Hours
	Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe	Threshold
1984 5th Genie Awards
	Lewis Furey	Maria Chapdelaine
	Michael Conway Baker	Deserters
		Au clair de la lune
		Dead Wrong
		A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
1985 6th Genie Awards
	François Dompierre	Mario
	,	Walls
		The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques)
		Sonatine
		Reno and the Doc
	Paul Zaza	Isaac Littlefeathers
1986 7th Genie Awards
	François Dompierre	The Alley Cat (Le Matou)
	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
	,	Exit
		The Blue Man
1988 9th Genie Awards
		Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit)
	Mychael Danna	Family Viewing
		Blue City Slammers
1989 10th Genie Awards
	Howard Shore	Dead Ringers
	, Billy Bryans	Office Party
	François Dompierre	The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
		The Heat Line (La ligne de chaleur)
		Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu)
	Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe	Milk and Honey

1990s[]

Year	Nominee	Film
1990 11th Genie Awards
	Yves Laferrière	Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
	Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna	Cold Comfort
	Mychael Danna	Speaking Parts
	Milan Kymlicka	Babar: The Movie
		Palais Royale
1991 12th Genie Awards
		The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)
		Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
	Georges Delerue	Black Robe
	Jonathan Goldsmith	Diplomatic Immunity
	Mark Korven	White Room
1992 13th Genie Awards
		Being at Home with Claude
		Solitaire
		North of Pittsburgh
		La Sarrasine
	Howard Shore	Naked Lunch
1993 14th Genie Awards
	Simon Kendall	Cadillac Girls
	Todd Boekelheide	Digger
		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
	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
	,	Black List (Liste noire)
	,	Rude
		Water Child (L'Enfant d'eau)
	Mark Korven	The Michelle Apartments
1996 17th Genie Awards
	Mark Korven	Curtis's Charm
	Richard Rodney Bennett	Swann
	Normand Corbeil	Screamers
	Mychael Danna	Lilies
		Joe's So Mean to Josephine
1997 18th Genie Awards
	Mychael Danna	The Sweet Hereafter
	François Dompierre	The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal)
	,	Night of the Flood (La nuit du déluge)
	Robert Marcel Lepage	The Human Plant (La Plante humaine)
		Kissed
1998 19th Genie Awards
	John Corigliano	The Red Violin
	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
	John Wesley Chisholm, ,	Beefcake
	,	Extraordinary Visitor
	Jono Grant	Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
	Maurice Jarre	Sunshine

2000s[]

Year	Nominee	Film
2000 21st Genie Awards
	Patric Caird	Here's to Life!
	Normand Corbeil	The Art of War
	,	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
	Alexander Balanescu	Eisenstein
		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
		Suddenly Naked
		The Collector (Le Collectionneur)
		Duct Tape Forever
	Zbigniew Preisner	Between Strangers
2003 24th Genie Awards
	Christopher Dedrick	The Saddest Music in the World
		Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)
	Mychael Danna	The Snow Walker
	, Jon Hassell, ,	Owning Mahowny
		The Wild Dogs
2004 25th Genie Awards
		Head in the Clouds
	Benoit Charest	The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville)
		The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier tunnel)
		Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)
		So the Moon Rises (La lune viendra d'elle-même)
2005 26th Genie Awards
	Mychael Danna	Water
	Mychael Danna	Where the Truth Lies
	, Geoff Bennett,	Sabah
		Manners of Dying
	Byron Wong	Lie With Me
2006 27th Genie Awards
		Without Her (Sans elle)
	Normand Corbeil	Cheech
		The Rocket (Maurice Richard)
		The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux)
	Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson	Beowulf & Grendel
2007 28th Genie Awards^[1]
	Howard Shore	Eastern Promises
	David Hirschfelder	Shake Hands with the Devil
		That Beautiful Somewhere
		Fido
	Ryûichi Sakamoto	Silk
2008 29th Genie Awards
	John McCarthy	The Stone Angel
	Normand Corbeil	Emotional Arithmetic
		Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)
		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
		Love and Savagery
		5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des Ormes)
	Ben Mink	Fifty Dead Men Walking

2010s[]

Year	Nominee	Film
2010 31st Genie Awards
		Barney's Version
	Brendan Canning	Trigger
	Jonathan Goldsmith	High Life
	, 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
		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
	, Hugh Marsh,	Still Mine
		Antiviral
2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards
	,	Enemy
	Ramachandra Borcar	Rock Paper Scissors (Roche papier ciseaux)
		The Storm Within (Rouge sang)
	Kim Gaboury,	Maïna
	Gabriel Yared	Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)
2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards
	Howard Shore	Maps to the Stars
	,	Meetings with a Young Poet
		Henri Henri
	Dan Mangan, Jesse Zubot	Hector and the Search for Happiness
		Cast No Shadow
2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards
	Michael Brook	Brooklyn
		Anna
	François Dompierre	The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine)
		Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
	Stephen Rennicks	Room
2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards
	Todor Kobakov, , David Braid	Born to Be Blue
		Numb
		Window Horses
		Hevn (Revenge)
	Jesse Zubot	Two Lovers and a Bear
2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards
	Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna	The Breadwinner
	, , Alexis Martin	Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols)
		Ravenous (Les Affamés)
		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
		The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
	, Benedict Taylor	Black Kite
		The Hummingbird Project
2019^[2] 8th Canadian Screen Awards
	Howard Shore	The Song of Names
	Robert Carli	Lie Exposed
	Peter Chapman	Riot Girls
	Ian LeFeuvre,	James vs. His Future Self
	Andrew Lockington	The Kindness of Strangers

2020s[]

Year	Nominee	Film	Ref
2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards
	Howard Shore	Funny Boy	^[3]
	Janal Bechthold	Marlene	^[4]
	Mychael Danna	Guest of Honour
	Jay McCarrol	The Kid Detective
	Michelle Osis, Lowell Boland	Bloodthirsty
2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards
	Suad Bushnaq	Jasmine Road	^[5]

		Cinema of Sleep
	Jonathan Goldsmith	All My Puny Sorrows

References[]

^ "Genie Awards in brief". Daily Gleaner, March 3, 2008.
^ "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.
^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.

[1] "Genie Awards in brief". Daily Gleaner, March 3, 2008.

[2] "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.

[3] Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.

[4] Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada.

[5] Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.

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