Canadian Screen Music 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.
Nominees for the inaugural awards were announced on August 16, 2022, with the awards presented on September 21. Nominations for the second awards were announced in September 2023, with the awards presented on October 26.

Awards

2025

Nominees for the 2025 awards were announced in July 2025, with winners announced in September.
Best Original Main Title Theme MusicBest Original Song
Suad Bushnaq, Al Batal (The Hero)
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"
  • Jonathan Evans, "Fin Loose"
    • Best Original Score for an Animated Series or SpecialBest Original Score for a Comedy Series or Special
    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"
    		• 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"
    • Best Original Score for a Documentary, Factual or Reality Series or SpecialBest Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film
    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"
    		• 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
    • Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series or SpecialBest Original Score for Games and Interactive Media
    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"
    		• 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
    • Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature FilmBest Original Score for a Short Film
    David Parfit and Marc Junker, The Worlds Divide
  • Amin Bhatia, The Wall Street Boy
  • Todor Kobakov, Humane
  • Todor Kobakov, The Invisibles
  • Mark Korven and Michelle Osis, Don't Move
    		• 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
    • Best Original Score for a Television FilmSCGC Industry Award
    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
    		• Jennifer Brown