{{Short description|Canadian music award}} {{distinguish|Canadian Screen Awards}} The '''Canadian Screen Music Awards''' are a Canadian award, launched in 2022 by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada to honour achievements in musical composition for film, television and digital media.<ref>Angelica Babiera, [https://playbackonline.ca/2022/08/16/first-ever-canadian-screen-music-awards-announces-nominees/ "First-ever Canadian Screen Music Awards announces nominees"]. ''Playback'', August 16, 2022.</ref>
Nominees for the inaugural awards were announced on August 16, 2022, with the awards presented on September 21.<ref>Howard Druckman, [https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news/inaugural-song-score-week-delivers-opportunities-awards-for-music-creators/ "INAUGURAL SONG & SCORE WEEK DELIVERS OPPORTUNITIES, AWARDS FOR MUSIC CREATORS"]. ''Words & Music'', September 26, 2022.</ref> Nominations for the second awards were announced in September 2023,<ref>Howard Druckman, [https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news/peter-chapman-earns-five-nominations-in-2023-canadian-screen-music-awards/ "Peter Chapman earns five nominations in 2023 Canadian Screen Music Awards"]. ''Words & Music'', September 19, 2023.</ref> with the awards presented on October 26.<ref>Howard Druckman, [https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news/fifteen-socan-members-honoured-in-2023-canadian-screen-music-awards-casmas/ "Fifteen SOCAN members honoured in 2023 Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMAs)"]. ''Words & Music'', October 31, 2023.</ref>
==Awards==
===2022=== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Children's Program or Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Steffan Andrews, ''LEGO Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted''''' * Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''Pinecone & Pony'' * Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''Team Zenko'' * Neil Parfitt, ''Matchbox Adventures'' * Neil Parfitt, ''Ranger Rob'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Todor Kobakov, ''Artificial Immortality''''' * Deanna H. Choi, ''The Nature of Things'': "Last of the Right Whales" * Walker Grimshaw, ''Dear Audrey'' * Jonathan Kawchuk, ''The Nature of Things'': "Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography" * Julien Verschooris, ''Coextinction'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for Interactive Media ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Main Title Theme Music |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Janal Bechthold and La-Nai Gabriel, ''No Reason to Apologize: The Resilient Legacy of Viola Desmond''''' * Felix Arifin, ''REM Cycles'' * Janal Bechthold, ''The Choice'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Layal Watfeh, ''The Journey''''' * Lora Bidner and Rob Carli, ''Ruby and the Well'' * Peter Chapman, ''The Communist's Daughter'' * Trevor Morris, ''Vikings: Valhalla'' * Layal Watfeh, ''Ambar 6'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Non-Fiction Series or Limited Series |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Steph Copeland, ''The Retreat''''' * Spencer Creaghan, ''Motherly'' * Darren Fung, ''Cinema of Sleep'' * Steve London, ''The Immaculate Room'' * Nasser Sharaf, ''The Alleys'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Todor Kobakov, ''The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith''''' * Amanda Cawley, ''Ageless Gardens'' * Andrew Gordon Macpherson, ''Dark Side of the Ring'' * Christopher Nickel, ''Highway Thru Hell'' * Tom Third, ''BLK, An Origin Story'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Series or Limited Series ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Short Film |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Trevor Morris, ''Vikings: Valhalla''''' * Robert Carli, ''Frankie Drake Mysteries'' * Robert Carli and Peter Chapman, ''Wynonna Earp'' * Clinton Shorter, ''The Expanse'' * Tom Third, ''Coroner'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Phil Strong, ''In the Wake of Progress''''' * Jordan Andrew, ''Shadowlands'' * Adrian Ellis, ''Old Mother Tongue'' * Walker Grimshaw, ''Monkey-Love, Please Hold'' * Randolph Peters and Joshua Maikawa, ''Wrought'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Television Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | SCGC Award for Distinguished Service to the Industry |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Steph Copeland, ''Lethal Love''''' * Suad Bushnaq, ''The Nature of Things'': "Why We Dance" * Iva Delic, Todor Kobakov and Tika Simone, ''Faith Heist'' * Jim McGrath, ''The Nature of Things'': "Curb Your Carbon" * Meiro Stamm and Antonio Naranjo, ''A Christmas Dance Reunion'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Canadian Film Centre''' * {{blue ribbon}} '''Slaight Family Foundation''' |}
===2023=== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Main Title Theme Music ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Song |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Layal Watfeh, ''Under Guardianship (Taht Al Wisaya)''''' *Brian Chan and Caleb Chan, ''Builder Brothers Dream Factory'' *Justin Delorme, ''Diaspora'' *Brian Kobayakawa, ''Jackals & Fireflies'' *Andrew Lockington, ''Mayor of Kingstown'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jesse Zubot, Wayne Lavallee and Marie Clements, "You Are My Bones" — ''Bones of Crows''''' *Spencer Creaghan and Milen Petzelt Sorace, "My Little Pony Make Your Mark" — ''My Little Pony: Make Your Mark'' *Stephen Krecklo and Ashley Jane, "How Lucky Am I?" — ''Press Play'' *Alexandra Petkovski and Kris Kovacs, "Deathloop: Déja Vu Remix" — ''Deathloop'' *Craig McConnell, "The Bullet or The Blade" — ''Resident Evil 4'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for an Animated Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Comedy Series or Special |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Spencer Creaghan and Neil Parfitt, ''Matchbox Adventures'': Season 3''' *Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''Pinecone & Pony'': "The Sturdy Stone" *Peter Chapman, ''Happy House of Frightenstein'': "Lucky Spell" *Neil Parfitt, ''Super Wish'': "The Legend of Cake-Bun Bottom" *Erica Procunier, ''Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go'': "The Mystery of Lookout Mountain" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Peter Chapman and Maylee Todd, ''Workin' Moms'': "The End"''' *Peter Chapman, ''The Lake'': "Midsommar Madness" *John Rowley, ''Pretty Hard Cases'': "Always a Bridesmaid" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary, Factual or Reality Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Ben Fox, ''The Climate Baby Dilemma''''' *Peter Chapman, ''Cross Country Cake Off'': "Holiday Finale" *Peter Chapman, ''Mary Makes It Easy'': "Overnight Guests" *Justin Delorme, ''The Nature of Things'': "Grizzly Rewild" *Andrew Gordon Macpherson, ''Tales from the Territories'': "Andy Kaufman vs. The King of Memphis" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jonathan Kawchuk, ''True Survivors''''' *Mark Dolmont, ''Satan Wants You'' *Ben Fox, ''Cynara'' *Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala, ''I Lost My Mom (J'ai placé ma mère)'' *Agatha Kasper, ''The Long Weekend'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Spencer Creaghan, ''Slasher: Ripper'': "The Slaughterhouse"''' *Lora Bidner and Rob Carli, ''Ruby and the Well'': "I Wish the Well Would Let Us Be Forever" *Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''Panhandle'': "Machetes Out" *Jeff Danna, ''Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities'': "Graveyard Rats" *Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia and Joel Schwartz, ''Ride'': "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jim Guthrie, ''Nobody Saves the World''''' *Janal Bechthold, ''Loki's Castle'' *Blake Matthews, ''Tiny Colony'' *Andrea Wettstein and Alec Harrison, ''Windborne: Call of the Canadian Rockies'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Short Film |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Steph Copeland, ''Outpost''''' *Steph Copeland, ''Laced'' *Todor Kobakov, ''Brother'' *Michelle Osis, ''Fixation'' *Tom Third, ''The Young Arsonists'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Amin Bhatia, ''Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope''''' *Suad Bushnaq, ''Corvine'' *Blake Matthews, ''Nahuales'' *Noora Nakhaei, ''Printemps'' *Daniela Pinto, ''Diaspora'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Television Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | SCGC Award for Distinguished Service to the Industry |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Kristjan Bergey, ''Swindler Seduction''''' *Steph Copeland, ''Designing Christmas'' *Adrian Ellis, ''Love in Wolf Creek'' *Medhat Hanbali, ''Queen Rising'' *Sean Nimmons-Paterson and Stephen Krecklo, ''Hotel for the Holidays'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Darren Fung''' |}
===2024=== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Main Title Theme Music ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Song |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jeff Toyne, ''Palm Royale''''' *Suad Bushnaq, ''From the Ashes (Jaras Enzar)'' *Allison Leyton-Brown and Laura Kleinbaum, ''Vida the Vet'' *Andrew Lockington, ''Special Ops: Lioness'' *Andrew Lockington, ''Poacher'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Carmen Elle and Ben Kunder, ''Sort Of'': "Sort Of Gone Again"''' *Paul Aitken, ''Murdoch Mysteries'': "Why Is Everybody Singing?" *Steph Copeland and Sarah MacDougall, ''Cascade'' *Spencer Creaghan, Kirstyn Johnson and Bryn V. McCutcheon, ''SurrealEstate'': "The Butler Didn't" *Alexandra Petkovski and Maks Simchenko, ''Black Skylands'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for an Animated Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Comedy Series or Special |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Amanda Cawley, ''Ostinato''''' *Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish'': "Fly" *Erica Procunier, ''Thomas & Friends'': "The Great Bubbly Build" *Henry Mitton, ''Vida the Vet'': "Toby Needs Glasses" *Meiro Stamm, ''Carl's Rescue Crew'': "Rumble Mountain" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jeff Toyne, ''Palm Royale'': "Maxine Saves a Cat"''' *Dillon Baldassero, ''Davey & Jonesie's Locker'': "Bean and Nothingness" *Peter Chapman, ''The Lake'': "Death on Denial" *David DeDourek, ''Space Janitors'': "Til Death" *Joel Schwartz and Antoine Gratton, ''Paris Paris'': "Mon coeur est dans l'enclos" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary, Factual or Reality Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Suad Bushnaq, ''The Nature of Things'': "Secret World of Sound: Hunters and Hunted"''' *Amanda Cawley, ''Visionary Gardeners'': "Communities in Harmony" *Andrew Gordon Macpherson, ''Dark Side of the Ring'': "Chris Colt: Welcome to My Nightmare" *Andy Milne, ''Black Life: Untold Stories'': "Revolution Remix" *Julien Verschooris, ''The Passionate Eye'': "Warrior Spirit" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Jonathan Kawchuk, ''Hunt for the Oldest DNA''''' *Iva Delic, ''Lost in the Shuffle'' *Jonathan Kawchuk, ''Send Kelp!'' *Tom Third, ''A Mother Apart'' *Jesse Zubot and Josh Zubot, ''Resident Orca'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Spencer Creaghan, ''SurrealEstate'': "Trust the Process"''' *Paul Aitken, Robert Carli and Jono Grant, ''Murdoch Mysteries'': "Why Is Everybody Singing?" *Lora Bidner and Robert Carli, ''Ruby and the Well'': "I Wish I Knew Where It Was” *Andrew Lockington, ''Special Ops: Lioness'': "Gone Is the Illusion of Order" *Jesse Zubot and Wayne Lavallee, ''Bones of Crows'': "To Be Separated" | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Amanda Cawley, ''Siegebreaker''''' *Janal Bechthold and La-Nai Gabriel, ''Where the Poppies Blow: The Life and Lessons of John McCrae'' *Maxime Goulet, ''One More Gate: A Wakfu Legend'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Short Film |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Adrian Ellis and Walker Grimshaw, ''Mother Father Sister Brother Frank''''' *Steph Copeland, ''Cascade'' *Steph Copeland, ''Reveillon'' *Spencer Creaghan, ''I Don't Know Who You Are'' *Andrew Lockington, ''Atlas'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Anthony William Wallace, ''Borders''''' *Justin Delorme, ''Ohskennón:ten Owí:ra'' *Meiro Stamm, ''Fiego and the Magic Fish'' *Tom Third, ''EarthWorm'' *Tom Third, ''The Everlasting Pea'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Television Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Lifetime Achievement Award |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''Steph Copeland, ''Binged to Death''''' *Jordan Andrew, ''Lowlifes'' *Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''The Thundermans Return'' *Darren Fung, ''Calamity Jane'' *Toby Sherriff and Jake Monaco, ''Taz: Quest for Burger'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Mychael Danna'''<ref>Jamie Casemore, [https://playbackonline.ca/2024/08/20/scgc-names-mychael-danna-for-first-lifetime-achievement-award/ "SCGC names Mychael Danna for first lifetime achievement award"]. ''Playback'', August 20, 2024.</ref> |}
===2025=== Nominees for the 2025 awards were announced in July 2025,<ref>Nicholas Sokic, [https://playbackonline.ca/2025/07/14/bet-among-canadian-screen-music-awards-nominees/ "Bet among Canadian Screen Music Awards nominees"]. ''Playback'', July 14, 2025.</ref> with winners announced in September.
{| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Main Title Theme Music ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Song |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Suad Bushnaq, ''Al Batal (The Hero)''''' * Adam King, ''Earth Abides'' * Andrew Lockington, ''Landman'' * Angelo Oddi, ''When Hope Calls'' * Jaasmaan Singh, ''The Flower at the End of the World'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Matthew O'Halloran, Steph Copeland and Kibra Tsegaye, "Trapped in the Spotlight"''' * Jordan Andrew, "Pregame" * Steph Copeland and Matthew O'Halloran, "Alpine Rhapsody" * Ava Kay, Rick Suvalle and Craig Carlisle, "The Christmas Letter Express : A Christmas Wish" (''Thomas & Friends'') * Jonathan Evans, "Fin Loose" (''Mermicorno: Starfall'') |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for an Animated Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Comedy Series or Special |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Spencer Creaghan, ''Hot Wheels Racerverse'': "The Complete Star Wars/Hot Wheels Racerverse Saga"''' * Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish'': "The Department of Magical Violations" * Peter Chapman and Shaw Han-Liem, ''Go Togo'': "Time to Go!" * Daniel Ingram and Trevor Hoffmann, ''Lego Friends: The Next Chapter'': "Space Race Competition" * Erica Procunier, ''Thomas & Friends'': "The Christmas Letter Express" | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, ''North of North'': "Bad Influence"''' * Dason Johnson, ''Wordsville'': "The Case of the Instruction Incident, Confidence Crisis & Rational Explanation" * Brian Pickett, James Chapple, Graeme Cornies, Rachael Johnstone and Jason Turriff, ''Odd Squad UK'': "The New Ozzie" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary, Factual or Reality Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Zachary Greer, ''Into the Fray'': "All the Quiet Voices"''' * Justin Delorme, ''Absolutely Canadian'': "Tea Creek" * Ben Fox, ''The Passionate Eye'': "My Brother, Soleiman" * Andrew Gordon Macpherson, ''Dark Side of the Ring'': "Ludvig Borga: Hellraiser from Helsinki" * Jesse Zubot, Josh Zubot and Jason Sharp, ''Mafia: Most Wanted'': "They Always Get Away" | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Justin Delorme, ''The Nest''''' * Ben Fox, ''The Age of Water'' * Kalaisan Kalaichelvan and Alexandra Petkovski, ''Treasure of the Rice Terraces'' * Murray Lightburn, ''Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story'' * Tom Third, ''The Spoils'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series or Special ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Steph Copeland and Michelle Osis, ''Murder on the Inca Trail'': "Truth"''' * Lora Bidner and Rob Carli, ''Ruby and the Well'': "I Wish...I Wish...I Wish" * Spencer Creaghan, ''SurrealEstate'': "The Elephant in the Room" * Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, ''Bet'': "Episode 1" * Andrew Lockington, ''Landman'': "Wolfe" | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Shaun Chasin, ''The Electric Forest''''' * Janal Bechthold, ''The Choice- Chapters 2 & 3: Makayla Ep 2'' * Shaun Chasin, ''Touchgrind X'' * Trevor Hoffmann, ''Nurture: Doki’s Delivery'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Short Film |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''David Parfit and Marc Junker, ''The Worlds Divide''''' * Amin Bhatia, ''The Wall Street Boy (Kipkemboi)'' * Todor Kobakov, ''Humane'' * Todor Kobakov, ''The Invisibles'' * Mark Korven and Michelle Osis, ''Don't Move'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Spencer Creaghan and Chris Reineck, ''Spaceman''''' * David Arcus, ''Nicely Awful'' * Steph Copeland and Henry Mitton, ''Alpine Rhapsody'' * Michelle Osis, ''T.Rex'' * Ari Posner and Amin Bhatia, ''Escape'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Original Score for a Television Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | SCGC Industry Award |- | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Andrés Galindo Arteaga, ''Trapped in the Spotlight''''' * Lora Bidner, ''Terror Comes Knocking'' * Peter Chapman and Robert Carli, ''Wynonna Earp: Vengeance'' * Steph Copeland, ''Christmas in the Spotlight'' * James Ervin, ''Twin Lies'' | valign="top" | * {{blue ribbon}} '''Jennifer Brown''' |}
==See also== * List of music awards * Music of Canada
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|https://screencomposers.ca/awards/}}
Category:Canadian film awards Category:Canadian television awards Category:Canadian music awards Category:Film music awards Category:Awards established in 2022 Category:2022 establishments in Canada Category:Television music awards