Winners and nominees 2025
On 10 October 2025 at the El Mocambo in Toronto, the Screen Composers Guild of Canada announced the winners for the fourth annual Canadian Screen Music Awards. Musical works received nominations in 11 categories covering feature film, television, animation, documentary, games and interactive media.
SCGC also presented its lifetime achievement award to Jennifer Brown.
Award recipients
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Nominees:
- Amin Bhatia – “The Wall Street Boy, Kipkemboi”
- Mark Korven & Michelle Osis – “Don’t Move”
- Todor Kobakov – “The Invisibles”
- Todor Kobakov – “Humane”
Winner:
- David Parfit & Marc Junker – “The Worlds Divide”
Nominees:
- Ben Fox – “The Age Of Water”
- Kalaisan Kalaichelvan & Alexandra Petkovski – “Treasure of the Rice Terraces”
- Murray Lightburn – “Any Other Way – The Jackie Shane Story”
- Tom Third – “The Spoils”
Winner:
- Justin Delorme – “The Nest”
Nominees:
- Ari Posner & Amin Bhatia – “Escape”
- David Arcus – “Nicely Awful”
- Michelle Osis – “T.REX”
- Steph Copeland & Henry Mitton – “Alpine Rhapsody”
Winner:
- Spencer Creaghan & Chris Reineck – “Spaceman”
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Nominees:
- Andrew Lockington – “Landman – Wolfe: Ep 109”
- Kalaisan Kalaichelvan – “BET: Ep 1”
- Lora Bidner & Rob Carli – “Ruby and the Well – I Wish…I Wish…I Wish: Ep 401”
- Spencer Creaghan – “SurrealEstate – The Elephant in the Room: Ep 310”
Winner:
- Steph Copeland & Michelle Osis – “Mord Auf Der Inka-Pfad (Murder on the Inca Trail) – Truth: Ep 4”
Nominees:
- Andrew Gordon Macpherson – “Dark Side of the Ring – Ludvig Borga: Hellraiser From Helsinki: Ep 2”
- Ben Fox – “My Brother, Soleiman”
- Jesse Zubot, Josh Zubot & Jason Sharp – “Mafia Most Wanted – They Always Get Away: Ep 3”
- Justin Delorme – “Tea Creek – Absolutely Canadian”
Winner:
- Zachary Greer – “Into the Fray – All the Quiet Voices: Ep 3”
Nominees:
- Brian Pickett, James Chapple, Graeme Cornies, Rachael Johnstone & Jason Turriff – “Odd Squad UK – The New Ozzie: Ep 404”
- Dason Johnson – “Wordsville – The Case of the… Instruction Incident, Confidence Crisis & Rational Explanation: Ep 11”
Winner:
- Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “North of North – Bad Influence: Ep108”
Nominees:
- Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “Fairly OddParents: A New Wish – The Department of Magical Violations: Ep 2”
- Daniel Ingram & Trevor Hoffmann – “Lego Friends: The Next Chapter – Space Race Competition: Ep 202”
- Erica Procunier – “Thomas & Friends- The Christmas Letter Express”
- Peter Chapman & Shaw-Han Liem – “Go Togo – Time to Go!: Ep 101”
Winner:
- Spencer Creaghan – “Hot Wheels Racerverse – The Complete STAR WARS™ + Hot Wheels RacerVerse Saga!: Ep 106”
Nominees:
- James Ervin – “Twin Lies”
- Lora Bidner – “Terror Comes Knocking”
- Peter Chapman & Robert Carli – “Wynonna Earp: Vengeance”
- Steph Copeland – “Christmas In The Spotlight”
Winner:
- Andrés Galindo Arteaga – “Trapped In The Spotlight”
Nominees:
- Janal Bechthold – “The Choice- Chapters 2 & 3: Makayla Ep 2”
- Shaun Chasin – “Touchgrind X”
- Trevor Hoffmann – “Nurture: Doki’s Delivery”
Winner:
- Shaun Chasin – “The Electric Forest”
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Nominees:
- Adam King – “Earth Abides”
- Andrew Lockington – “Landman”
- Angelo Oddi – “When Hope Calls”
- Jaasmaan Singh – “The Flower at the end of The World”
Winner:
- Suad Bushnaq – “Al Batal (The Hero)”
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Nominees:
- Ava Kay, Rick Suvalle & Craig Carlisle – “Thomas & Friends – The Christmas Letter Express : A Christmas Wish”
- Jonathan Evans – “Mermicornos Starfall – Fin Loose: Ep 111”
- Jordan Andrew, Sorah Eun & Yasuke – “Pregame”
- Steph Copeland & Matthew O’Halloran – “Alpine Rhapsody”
Winner:
- Matthew O’Halloran, Steph Copeland & Kibra Tsegaye – “Trapped in the Spotlight”
The SCGC Award for Distinguished Service to the Industry is awarded by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada board.
(In alternating years, this changes to a Lifetime Achievement award, judged by the Screen Composers Guild of Canada Awards Committee.)
Winner:
- Jennifer Brown
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