The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Music: Original Song to the best original song in a Canadian motion picture.
From 1980 to 2011, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
1980s
| Year | Nominees | Song | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | |||
| Stéphane Venne | "Il était une fois des gens heureux" | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) | |
| Ann Mortifee | "Gypsy Born" | Surfacing | |
| Neil Young | "Comes a Time" | Silence of the North | |
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | |||
| Burton Cummings | "You Saved My Soul" | Melanie | |
| Claude Fonfrède, Raoul Duguay | "Le quéteux d'amour" | Wild Flowers (Les fleurs sauvages) | |
| Réjean Marois, Fernand Dansereau | "Doux aveux" | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | |
| Fred Mollin | "Just One Chance to Be Free" | Spring Fever | |
| Luc Plamondon, Germain Gauthier | "Call Girl" | Scandale | |
| Leslie Pouliot | "My Love for You" | Harry Tracy, Desperado | |
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | |||
| Yves Laferrière, Marjolène Morin, Paule Baillargeon | "Touch Me" | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) | |
| Germain Gauthier, Robert Léger, Daniele Faubert | "L'Amour a pris son temps" | The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques) | |
| Betty Lazebnik, Charles Dennis | "A Little Piece of Forever" | Reno and the Doc | |
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | |||
| Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen | "Angel Eyes" | Night Magic | |
| Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen | "Fire" | Night Magic | |
| Lewis Furey, Eddy Marney, Howard Foreman, Judy Richard | "Michael's Song" | The Peanut Butter Solution (Opération beurre de pinottes) | |
| Michel Rivard | "Le temps nous dépasse" | Jacques and November (Jacques et novembre) | |
| John Sebastian | "Nobody Cares Like a Bear" | The Care Bears Movie | |
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | |||
| Danielle Messia | "De la main gauche" | Anne Trister | |
| Robert Joy, Andy Jones | "Show Goin' On" | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood | |
| Peter Pringle, Kevin Hunter | "Cold As Ice" | Toby McTeague | |
| Gilles Vigneault | "Les îles de l'enfance" | Equinox (Équinoxe) | |
| Peter R. Simpson, Paul Zaza | "Out of the Fire" | Bullies | |
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | |||
| Jean-Pierre Bonin, Daniel De Shaimes, Jean Corriveau, Robert Stanley | "Lost in a Hurricane" | Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) | |
| William D. MacGillivray | "Mary's Lament" | Life Classes | |
| Maribeth Solomon | "Rise and Shine" | The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland | |
| Guy Trépanier | "The Great Land of Small" | The Great Land of Small (C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand!) | |
| Howard Forman, Krzesimir Dębski | "When We're Together" | The Young Magician (Le jeune magicien) | |
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | |||
| Louis Natale, Anne Wheeler | "Cowboys Don't Cry" | Cowboys Don't Cry | |
| Normand Dubé, Guy Trépanier, Nathalie Carson | "We Are the One" | The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) | |
| Louise Bennett | "You're Going Home" | Milk and Honey | |
| Jay Gruska, Marc Jordan | "Shadow Dance" | Shadow Dancing | |
| Rufus Wainwright | "I'm Running" | Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | |
1990s
| Year | Nominees | Song | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 11th Genie Awards | |||
| Bill Henderson | "When I Sing" | Bye Bye Blues | |
| Claude Dubois, Dany Laferrière | "On vit de femmes" | How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) | |
| Colin Nairne, Barney Bentall, Gary Fraser | "Restless Dreamer" | American Boyfriends | |
| Jane Siberry | "This Old Earth" | The Top of His Head | |
| Maribeth Solomon | "The Best We Both Can Be" | Babar: The Movie | |
| Maribeth Solomon | "Elephant March" | Babar: The Movie | |
| 1991 12th Genie Awards | |||
| George Blondheim, Anne Wheeler | "Such Magic" | Angel Square | |
| Rémy Girard, Claire Wojas | "C'est plus fort que nous" | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) | |
| Daniel Lavoie, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre | "Quand tu partiras" | The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel (Le fabuleux voyage de l'ange) | |
| Patricia Rozema, Mark Korven | "A Certain Slant of Light" | White Room | |
| Patricia Rozema, Mark Korven | "Hello I'm Nobody" | White Room | |
| 1992 13th Genie Awards | |||
| Ron Hynes | "The Final Breath" | Secret Nation | |
| Cam Wagner | "Midnight Ride" | North of Pittsburgh | |
| Gord Norris, Larry Harvey | "Oh What a Fool You Made of Me" | The Shower | |
| 1993 14th Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 1994 15th Genie Awards | |||
| Rheostatics | "Claire" | Whale Music | |
| Penny Anne Baker, Michael Conway Baker | "Far Away" | Savage Land | |
| Brad Hayes, Ray Bonneville | "Say Those Things" | The Myth of the Male Orgasm | |
| Rheostatics | "Song of Courtship" | Whale Music | |
| Glenn Schellenberg, John Greyson | "Just Like Scheherazade" | Zero Patience | |
| Shari Ulrich, Graeme Coleman, David Graff | "Every Road" | Max | |
| 1995 16th Genie Awards | |||
| No award presented | |||
| 1996 17th Genie Awards | |||
| Michael Turner, Swamp Baby, Peter J. Moore | "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?" | Hard Core Logo | |
| Steven Drake, Bruce McCulloch, Craig Northey | "Some Days It's Dark" | Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy | |
| Michael Timmins | "House on the Horizon" | House | |
| 1997 18th Genie Awards | |||
| Luc Plamondon, François Dompierre | "L'Homme idéal" | The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal) | |
| Mychael Danna, Sarah Polley | "The Sweet Hereafter" | The Sweet Hereafter | |
| Kristy Thirsk | "Bounds of Love" | Kissed | |
| 1998 19th Genie Awards | |||
| Suzie Ungerleider | "River Blue" | The Fishing Trip | |
| Daniel Lavoie, Claude Gauthier | "Est-ce si loin Québec" | Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) | |
| Michel Tremblay, François Dompierre | "Laura la Belle" | It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) | |
| 1999 20th Genie Awards | |||
| Peter Luciano, Glenn Coulson, Joe Heslip, Marty Beecroft | "One Thing to Say" | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | |
| Daniel Bélanger | "Le Dernier souffle" | The Last Breath (Le Dernier souffle) | |
| Tim Burns | "It's a Treat to be a Creep" | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | |
| John Wesley Chisholm | "Beefcake" | Beefcake | |
| Benoit Jutras, René Dupéré | "Alegría" | Alegría | |
2000s
| Year | Nominees | Song | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 21st Genie Awards | |||
| François Dompierre | "Fortuna" | Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite) | |
| Michael Bublé | "Dumb Ol' Heart" | Here's to Life! | |
| Michael Bublé | "I've Never Been in Love Before" | Here's to Life! | |
| Lascelles Stephens, Keith Andes, Deborah Cox | "29" | Love Come Down | |
| Lascelles Stephens, Keith Andes, Deborah Cox | "Our Love" | Love Come Down | |
| 2001 22nd Genie Awards | |||
| Ron Sexsmith | "Love Is Free" | The Art of Woo | |
| Simon Kendall, Tom Landa, Geoffrey Kelly | "Parting Glass" | Lunch with Charles | |
| Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida | "Can't Make It Good" | Century Hotel | |
| James McGrath, Joel Feeney | "Falling Forward" | Treed Murray | |
| Osvaldo Montes | "La niebla del tiempo" | On Your Head (Le Ciel sur la tête) | |
| 2002 23rd Genie Awards | |||
| Carlos Lopes | "Com Estas Asas" | Saint Monica | |
| Laura Doyle | "Let You Go" | Suddenly Naked | |
| Laura Doyle | "Your Love" | Suddenly Naked | |
| Mel M'Rabet | "Ab (Father)" | Khaled | |
| Michael Shields | "Just Say Goodbye" | Turning Paige | |
| 2003 24th Genie Awards | |||
| Ken Whiteley | "Tell Me" | Falling Angels | |
| Adam James Broughton, Jeanne Dompierre, Steve Galluccio, FM Le Sieur | "Montréal Italiano" | Mambo Italiano | |
| Pamela Phillips-Oland, David Martin, LeVar Burton | "Center of My Heart" | Blizzard | |
| Luc Plamondon, Michel Cusson | "Depuis le premier jour" | Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) | |
| Brian C. Warren, Mark Anthony | "La Vie" | Saved by the Belles | |
| 2004 25th Genie Awards | |||
| Jacob Tierney, Ron Proulx | "Pantaloon in Black" | Twist | |
| Pierre Houle, Lorraine Richard, Michel Cusson | "Le Blues de Monica" | Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille) | |
| Rebecca Jenkins | "Something's Coming" | Wilby Wonderful | |
| Kyprios | "Ignorance Is Beautiful (Help Me)" | Childstar | |
| Luc Plamondon, Patrick Doyle | "Ma Nouvelle France" | Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France) | |
| 2005 26th Genie Awards | |||
| Glenn Buhr, Margaret Sweatman | "When Wintertime" | Seven Times Lucky | |
| Daniel Bélanger | "Tourner" | Audition (L'Audition) | |
| Sylvain Cossette, Robert Marchand, Michel Corriveau | "Comme un plume au vent" | The Outlander (Le Survenant) | |
| Matt Murphy, Michael Mabbott | "Just a Show" | The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | |
| Matt Murphy, Michael Mabbott | "Make Believe" | The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | |
| 2006 27th Genie Awards | |||
| Jennifer Kreisberg | "Have Hope" | Unnatural & Accidental | |
| Dan Bigras | "L'Astronaute" | Angel's Rage (La Rage de l'ange) | |
| Eric Lapointe, Stéphane Dufour, Jamil | "Tattoo" | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | |
| Bramwell Tovey, Richard Bell | "In a Heartbeat" | Eighteen | |
| Patrick Watson, Caroline Dhavernas | "Trace-moi" | The Beautiful Beast (La belle bête) | |
| 2007 28th Genie Awards[1] | |||
| Valanga Khoza, David Hirschfelder | "Kaya" | Shake Hands with the Devil | |
| Alan Doyle | "Young Triffie's Been Made Away With" | Young Triffie | |
| Byron Wong, Luke Nicholson | "Breathe" | Poor Boy's Game | |
| 2008 29th Genie Awards | |||
| Dr. Shiva | "Rahi Nagufta" | Amal | |
| Loco Locass | "M'Accrocher?" | Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait) | |
| Bry Webb | "Big Smoke" | This Beautiful City | |
| 2009 30th Genie Awards | |||
| John Welsman, Cherie Camp | "Oh Love" | Nurse.Fighter.Boy | |
| Susan Avingaq | "Pamani" | Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain) | |
| Sari Dajani, Iohann Martin, Rudy Toussaint, John Von Aichlinger | "Bon Swa" | Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) |
2010s
| Year | Nominees | Song | Films |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 31st Genie Awards | |||
| Mary Milne | "Already Gone" | The Trotsky | |
| Buck 65 | "What's Wrong with That?" | Year of the Carnivore | |
| Cherie Pyne, Matthew J. Thomson | "Tender Steps" | Crackie | |
| Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet, Stephen Pitkin | "West End Sky" | Grown Up Movie Star | |
| Paul Spence | "There's No Place Like Christmas" | FUBAR 2 | |
| 2011 32nd Genie Awards | |||
| Carole Facal | "Quelque part" | Starbuck | |
| Jay Brannan | "My Love My Love" | Cloudburst | |
| Malajube | "Œil pour œil" | Good Neighbours | |
| Steven Page | "A Different Sort of Solitude" | French Immersion | |
| Jean Robitaille, Steve Galluccio | "Waiting for Your Touch" | Funkytown | |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Emily Haines, James Shaw, Howard Shore | "Long to Live" | Cosmopolis | |
| Erland and the Carnival | "Out of Sight" | Rufus | |
| Erland and the Carnival | "Wanting" | Rufus | |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Jimmy Harry, Serena Ryder | "It's No Mistake" | The Right Kind of Wrong | |
| Michel Cusson | "À la claire fontaine" | The Storm Within (Rouge sang) | |
| Maerin Hunting | "Iva/Moses" | Stay | |
| Elisapie Isaac | "Far Away" | The Legend of Sarila | |
| Colleen Rennison | "Molly" | Down River | |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Manjeet Ral | "Dal Makhani" | Dr. Cabbie | |
| Patric Caird, Sonya Côté | "Danse Elegant" | Tru Love | |
| Lewis Furey | "Road to Rainbow's End" | Love Project | |
| Ian LeFeuvre | "The Whisper in Me" | Dirty Singles | |
| Dan Mangan | "Wants" | The Valley Below | |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Jenny Salgado | "C'est aujourd'hui que je sors" | Scratch | |
| Kris Elgstrand | "Asshole Dave" | Songs She Wrote About People She Knows | |
| Peter Katz and Karen Kowsowski | "Where the Light Used to Be" | 88 | |
| Martin Léon | "Red and Yellow" | Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) | |
| Noah Reid | "People Hold On" | People Hold On | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| David Braid | "Could Have Been" | Born to Be Blue | |
| Nikan Boivin | "Sokecimyekw" | Before the Streets (Avant les rues) | |
| Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne | "Natalie" | King Dave | |
| Matthew Schellenberg | "Draw Blood" | Lovesick | |
| Daniel Stimac | "Almost Had It All" | A Date with Miss Fortune | |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Qais Essar, Joshua Hill | "The Crown Sleeps" | The Breadwinner | |
| Dani Bailey | "Rid the Dark" | Hunting Pignut | |
| Joey Sherrett, Chris Gordon, Nathaniel Huskinson | "CTS Thief" | Boost | |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Dan General, Thomas Lambe, Adam Tanuyak | "Trials" | The Grizzlies | |
| Sook-Yin Lee, Adam Litovitz, Alia O'Brien | "Ghost of Love (Onakabazien Remix)" | Octavio Is Dead! | |
| Jean-Sébastien Williams | "Help Is on the Way" | Sashinka | |
| 2019[2] 8th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Howard Shore | "The Song of Names (Cantor Prayer)" | The Song of Names | |
| Peter Chapman, Leslie Seaforth | "We Run the World" | Riot Girls | |
| Ian LeFeuvre | "Travel Through" | James vs. His Future Self | |
| Bramwell Tovey, Richard Bell | "I've Got a Big One" | Brotherhood |
See also
- Prix Iris for Best Original Music
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.