CASMA 2024 Nominations Announced

The Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) has announced the nominations for the third annual Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMA). These awards honour composers for their outstanding work in media and screen-based industries and are the first to be juried and awarded by fellow composers in Canada.

In 2024, a total of 53 musical works received nominations in 12 categories covering feature film, television, animation, documentary, games and interactive media plus a special lifetime achievement award. Nominees were selected by SCGC’s roster of jurors, and the winners will be announced live at the 2024 CASMA ceremony on Wednesday 25 September at the El Mocambo in Toronto.

Sales are now open for ceremony tickets and for the raffle, and the list of nominees is as follows.

Best Original Score, Animated Series or Special

• Amanda Cawley – “Ostinato”
• Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish: Ep 101 – Fly”
• Erica Procunier – “Thomas & Friends: The Great Bubbly Build”
• Henry Mitton – “Vida The Vet: Ep 01B – Toby Needs Glasses”
• Meiro Stamm – “Carl’s Rescue Crew: Ep 101 – Rumble Mountain”

Best Original Score, Comedy Series or Special

• David DeDourek – “Space Janitors: Ep 405 – Til Death”
• Dillon Baldassero – “Davey and Jonesies Locker: Ep 09 – Bean and Nothingness”
• Jeff Toyne – “Palm Royale: Ep 102 – Maxine Saves A Cat”
• Joel Schwartz & Antoine Gratton – “Paris Paris: Ep 12 – Mon coeur est dans l’enclos”
• Peter Chapman – “The Lake: Ep 208 – Death on Denial”

Best Original Score, Documentary, Factual, Reality Series or Special

• Amanda Cawley – “Visionary Gardeners: Ep 2 – Communities in Harmony”
• Andrew Gordon Macpherson – “Dark Side of the Ring: Ep 506 – Chris Colt: Welcome to my Nightmare”
• Andy Milne – “Black LIfe Untold Stories: Ep 2 – Revolution Remix”
• Julien Verschooris, Chief Dan George & Bob George – “Passionate Eye: Warrior Spirit”
• Suad Bushnaq – “Secret World of Sound – The Nature of Things: Ep 1 – Hunters and Hunted”

Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film

• Iva Delic – “Lost in the Shuffle”
• Jesse Zubot & Josh Zubot – “Resident Orca”
• Jonathan Kawchuk – “Hunt for the Oldest DNA”
• Jonathan Kawchuk – “Send Kelp”
• Tom Third – “A Mother Apart”

Best Original Score, Dramatic Series or Special (Sponsored by DGC National)

• Andrew Lockington – “Lioness: Ep 108 – Gone is the Illusion of Order”
• Jesse Zubot & Wayne Lavallee – “Bones of Crows: Ep 2 – To Be Separated”
• Lora Bidner & Rob Carli – “Ruby and the Well: Ep 301 – I Wish I Knew Where it Was”
• Paul Aitken, Rob Carli & Jono Grant – “Murdoch Mysteries: Ep 1718 – Why is Everybody Singing?”
• Spencer Creaghan – “Surreal Estate: Ep 201 – Trust the Process”

Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media

• Amanda Cawley – “Siegebreaker”
• Janal Bechthold & La-Nai Gabriel – “Where the Poppies Blow: The Life and Lessons of John McCrae”
• Maxime Goulet – “One More Gate: A Wakfu Legend”

Best Original Main Title Theme Music (Sponsored by SOCAN)

• Allison Leyton-Brown & Laura Kleinbaum – “Vida the Vet”
• Andrew Lockington – “Lioness”
• Andrew Lockington – “Poacher”
• Jeff Toyne – “Palm Royale”
• Suad Bushnaq – “From the Ashes (Jaras Enzar)”

Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film (Sponsored by Orchestral Tools)

• Adrian Ellis & Walker Grimshaw – “Mother Father Sister Brother Frank”
• Andrew Lockington – “Atlas”
• Spencer Creaghan – “I Don’t Know Who You Are”
• Steph Copeland – “Cascade”
• Steph Copeland – “Reveillon”

Best Original Song (Sponsored by Music Publishers Canada)

• Alexandra Petkovski & Maks Simchenko – “Black Skylands”
• Carmen Elle & Ben Kunder – Sort Of: Ep 308 – “Sort Of Gone Again”
• Paul Aitken – Murdoch Mysteries: Ep 1718 – “Why is Everybody Singing?”
• Spencer Creaghan, Kirstyn Johnson & Bryn V McCutcheon – “Surreal Estate: Ep 203 – The Butler Didn’t”
• Steph Copeland & Sarah MacDougall – “Cascade”

Best Original Score for a Short Film

• 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”

Best Original Score for a Television Special

• Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “The Thundermans Return”
• Darren Fung – “Calamity Jane”
• Jordan Andrew – “Lowlifes”
• Steph Copeland – “Binged to Death”
• Toby Sherriff & Jake Monaco – “Taz: Quest for Burger”

Lifetime Achievement Award

• To be announced

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