Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Music – Original Score

The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score.

1st Genie Awards

• Carl Zittrer, Paul Zaza,Murder By Decree
• Alain Leroux, It Rained All Night the Day I Left
• Hagood Hardy, Jack London's Klondike Fever
• Howard Shore, The Brood
• Paul Hoffert, Wild Horse Hank

2nd Genie Awards

• Art Philips, The Lucky Star
• Matthew McCauley, Middle Age Crazy
• John Mills-Cockell, Terror Train
• Kenneth Wannberg, Tribute

3rd Genie Awards

• Claude Denjean and Stéphane Venne, Les Plouffe
• Jean Cousineau, Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs)
• Bo Harwood and Lance Rubin, Happy Birthday to Me
• Micky Erbe and Maribeth Solomon, Ticket to Heaven

4th Genie Awards

• Michael Conway Baker, The Grey Fox
• Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe, Threshold
• Jonathan Goldsmith, Visiting Hours

5th Genie Awards

• Lewis Furey, Maria Chapdelaine
• Andre Vincelli, A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
• Joel Bienvenue, Au clair de la lune
• Karl Kobylansky, Dead Wrong
• Michael Conway Baker, Deserters

6th Genie Awards

• François Dompierre, Mario
• Paul Zaza, Isaac Littlefeathers
• Germain Gauthier, La Guerre des tuques
• Betty Lazebnik, Reno and the Doc
• François Lanctôt, Sonatine
• J. Douglas Dodd, Michael Oczko, Lock Up

7th Genie Awards

• François Dompierre, The Alley Cat
• Philippe Sarde, Joshua Then and Now
• Lewis Furey, Night Magic
• Lewis Furey, The Peanut Butter Solution

8th Genie Awards

• Michael Conway Baker, John and the Missus
• Marie Bernard, Richard Gregoire, Exit
• Marvin Dolgay, The Blue Man

9th Genie Awards

• Jean Corriveau, Un Zoo La Nuit
• Tim McCauley, Blue City Slammers
• Mychael Danna, Family Viewing

10th Genie Awards

• Howard Shore, Dead Ringers
• Osvaldo Montes, A corps perdu
• Richard Gregoire, La Ligne de chaleur
• François Dompierre, The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)
• Maribeth Solomon, Micky Erbe, Milk and Honey
• Aaron Davis, Billy Bryans, Office Party

11th Genie Awards

• Yves Laferrière, Jesus de Montreal
• Milan Kymlicka, Babar: The Movie
• Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna, Cold Comfort
• Lawrence Schragge, Palais Royale
• Mychael Danna, Speaking Parts

12th Genie Awards

• Jean Corriveau, The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)
• Marie Bernard, Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)
• Georges Delerue, Black Robe
• Jonathan Goldsmith, Diplomatic Immunity
• Mark Korven, White Room

13th Genie Awards

• Richard Grégoire, Being at Home with Claude
• Pierre Desrochers, La Sarrasine
• Howard Shore, Naked Lunch
• Graeme Coleman, North of Pittsburgh
• Michael Becker, Solitaire

14th Genie Awards

• Simon Kendall, Cadillac Girls
• Todd Boekelheide, Digger
• Yves Laferrière, Le Sexe des étoiles
• Pierre Desrochers, Les Amoureuses
• Mark Korven, The Grocer's Wife

15th Genie Awards

• Mychael Danna, Exotica
• Mark Korven, Henry & Verlin
• Milan Kymlicka, La Vie d'un héros
• Milan Kymlicka, Matusalem
• George Blondheim, Whale Music

16th Genie Awards

• Milan Kymlicka, Margaret's Museum
• Richard Gregoire, L'Enfant d'eau
• Serge Arcuri, Luc Aubry, Liste noire
• Aaron Davis, John Lang, Rude
• Mark Korven, The Michelle Apartments

17th Genie Awards

• Mark Korven, Curtis's Charm
• Ron Sures, Joe's So Mean to Josephine
• Mychael Danna, Lilies
• Normand Corbeil, Screamers
• Richard Rodney Bennett, Swann

18th Genie Awards

• Mychael Danna, The Sweet Hereafter
• Don MacDonald, Kissed
• Robert Marcel Lepage, La Plante humaine
• François Dompierre, L'Homme idéal
• Serge Laforest, Gaëtan Gravel, Night of the Flood

19th Genie Awards

• John Corigliano, The Red Violin
• Mark Korven, Cube
• Alexina Louie, Alex Pauk, Last Night
• Mychael Danna, Regeneration
• Jonathan Goldsmith, Such a Long Journey

20th Genie Awards

• Mychael Danna, Felicia's Journey
• John Wesley Chisholm, Mike Diabo, John Roby, Beefcake
• Nick Dyer, Eric Cadesky, Extraordinary Visitor
• Jono Grant, Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
• Maurice Jarre, Sunshine

21st Genie Awards

• Patric Caird, Here's to Life!
• François Dompierre, Laura Cadieux...la suite
• Aaron Davis, John Lang, Love Come Down
• Normand Corbeil, The Art of War
• Alan Reeves, To Walk with Lions

22nd Genie Awards

• Chris Crilly, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
• Alexander Balanescu, Eisenstein
• Bertrand Chénier, Tar Angel (L'Ange de goudron)
• Andrew Zealley and Don Pyle, The Law of Enclosures
• Pierre Duchesne, Une jeune fille à la fenêtre

23rd Genie Awards

• Mychael Danna, Ararat
• Zbigniew Preisner, Between Strangers
• Michel Cusson, Le Collectionneur
• Glenn Morley, Duct Tape Forever
• Chris Ainscough, Suddenly Naked

24th Genie Awards

• Christopher Dedrick, The Saddest Music in the World
• Richard Grassby-Lewis, Jon Hassell, Bob Locke, Tim Norfolk, Owning Mahowny
• Michel Cusson, Séraphin: Heart of Stone
• Mychael Danna, The Snow Walker
• Sandy Moore, The Wild Dogs

25th Genie Awards

• Terry Frewer, Head in the Clouds
• Charles Papasoff, So the Moon Rises
• Michel Corriveau, Le Dernier Tunnel
• Benoit Charest, The Triplets of Belleville
• Pierre Duchesne, Looking for Alexander

26th Genie Awards

• Mychael Danna, Water
• Byron Wong, Lie With Me
• Éric Pfalzgraf, Manners of Dying
• Longo Hai, Geoff Bennett and Ben Johannesen, Sabah: A Love Story
• Mychael Danna, Where the Truth Lies

27th Genie Awards

• Jean Robitaille, Without Her
• Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Beowulf & Grendel
• Normand Corbeil, Cheech
• Pierre Desrochers, The Secret Life of Happy People
• Michel Cusson, The Rocket

28th Genie Awards

• Howard Shore, Eastern Promises
• Don MacDonald, Fido
• David Hirschfelder, Shake Hands with the Devil
• Ryûichi Sakamoto, Silk
• Steve London, That Beautiful Somewhere

29th Genie Awards

• John McCarthy, The Stone Angel
• Normand Corbeil, Emotional Arithmetic
• Laurent Eyquem, Maman est chez le coiffeur
• Nikos Kypourgos, Fugitive Pieces
• Robert M. Lepage, Ce qu'il faut pour vivre

30th Genie Awards

• Normand Corbeil, Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles
• Benoît Charest, Polytechnique
• Bertrand Chénier, Love and Savagery
• Christian Clermont, 5150 Elm's Way
• Ben Mink, Fifty Dead Men Walking

31st Genie Awards

• Pasquale Catalano, Barney's Version
• Brendan Canning, Trigger
• Jonathan Goldsmith, High Life
• Keegan Jessamy and Bryce Mitchell, At Home by Myself...With You
• Sook-Yin Lee, Buck 65 and Adam Litovitz, Year of the Carnivore

32nd Genie Awards

• Howard Shore, A Dangerous Method
• Ramachandra Borcar, Jaloux
• Mychael Danna, The Whistleblower
• Martin Léon, Monsieur Lazhar
• Philip Miller, The Bang Bang Club

1st Canadian Screen Awards

• Howard Shore, Cosmopolis
• Benoit Charest, Mars et Avril
• Noia, Laurence Anyways
• Don Rooke, Hugh Marsh and Michelle Willis, Still Mine
• E. C. Woodley, Antiviral

2nd Canadian Screen Awards

• Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, Enemy
• Ramachandra Borcar, Roche papier ciseaux
• Michel Cusson, Rouge sang
• Kim Gaboury and Michel Cusson, Maïna
• Gabriel Yared, Tom à la ferme

3rd Canadian Screen Awards

• Howard Shore, Maps to the Stars
• Jeffrey Morrow, Cast No Shadow
• Dan Mangan and Jesse Zubot, Hector and the Search for Happiness
• Patrick Lavoie, Henri Henri
• Patrice Dubuc and Gaëtan Gravel, Meetings with a Young Poet

4th Canadian Screen Awards

• Michael Brook, Brooklyn
• Michel Corriveau, Anna
• François Dompierre, The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine)
• Stephen Rennicks, Room
• Chris Gestrin, Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

See also

• List of film music awards § Best score