CASMA 2023 Winners

The best in Canadian Screen Composing

On 26 October 2023 at the El Mocambo in Toronto, the Screen Composers Guild of Canada announced the winners for the second annual Canadian Screen Music Awards. A total of 52 musical works received nominations in 11 categories covering feature film, television, animation, documentary, games and interactive media.

The SCGC also present the Distinguished Services to the Industry Award to Darren Fung.

Award recipients

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Nominees:

  • Michelle Osis – “Fixation”
  • Steph Copeland – “Laced”
  • Todor Kobakov – “Brother”
  • Tom Third – “The Young Arsonists”

Winner:

  • Steph Copeland – “Outpost”

Nominees:

  • Agatha Kaspar – “The Long Weekend”
  • Ben Fox – “Cynara”
  • Mark Dolmont – “Satan Wants You”
  • Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala – “J’ai placé ma mère (I lost my mom)”

Winner:

  • Jonathan Kawchuk – “True Survivors”

Nominees

  • Blake Matthew – “Nahuales”
  • Daniela Pinto – “Diaspora”
  • Noora Nakhaei – “Printemps”
  • Suad Bushnaq – “Corvine”

Winner:

  • Amin Bhatia – “Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope”
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Nominees:

  • Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia & Joel Schwartz – “Ride: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace”
  • Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “Panhandle: Machetes Out”
  • Jeff Danna – “Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Graveyard Rats”
  • Lora Bidner and Rob Carli – “Ruby and the Well: I Wish The Well Would Let Us Be Forever”

Winner:

  • Spencer Creaghan – “Slasher: Ripper – The Slaughterhouse”

Nominees:

  • Andrew Gordon Macpherson – “Tales From The Territories: Andy Kaufman vs. The King of Memphis”
  • Justin Delorme – “The Nature of Things: Grizzly Rewild”
  • Peter Chapman – “Cross Country Cake Off: Holiday Finale”
  • Peter Chapman – “Mary Makes it Easy: Overnight Guests”

Winner:

  • Ben Fox – “The Climate Baby Dilemma”

Nominees

  • John Rowley – “Pretty Hard Cases: Always A Bridesmaid”
  • Peter Chapman – “The Lake: Midsommar Madness”

Winner:

  • Peter Chapman & Maylee Todd – “Workin’ Moms: The End”

Nominees:

  • Caleb Chan & Brian Chan – “Pinecone and Pony: The Sturdy Stone”
  • Erica Procunier – “The Mystery of Lookout Mountain (Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go)”
  • Neil Parfitt – “Super Wish: The Legend of Cake-Bun Bottom”
  • Peter Chapman – “Happy House of Frightenstein: Lucky Spell”

Winner:

  • Spencer Creaghan & Neil Parfitt – “Matchbox Adventures: Season 3”

Nominees:

  • Adrian Ellis – “Love in Wolf Creek”
  • Medhat Hanbali – “Queen Rising”
  • Sean Nimmons-Paterson & Stephen Krecklo – “Hotel for the Holidays”
  • Steph Copeland – “Designing Christmas”

Winner:

  • Kristjan Bergey – “Swindler Seduction”

Nominees

  • Andrea Wettstein & Alec Harrison – “Windborne: Call of the Canadian Rockies”
  • Blake Matthews – “Tiny Colony”
  • Janal Bechthold – “Loki’s Castle”

Winner:

  • Jim Guthrie – “Nobody Saves The World”
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Nominees:

  • Andrew Lockington – “Mayor Of Kingstown”
  • Brian Chan & Caleb Chan – “Builder Brothers Dream Factory”
  • Brian Kobayakawa – “Jackals & Fireflies”
  • Justin Delorme – “Diaspora”

Winner:

  • Layal Watfeh – “Under Guardianship – Taht Al Wisaya”
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Nominees:

  • Alexandra Petkovski & Kris Kovacs – “Deathloop: Deja Vu Remix”
  • Craig McConnell – “The Bullet or the Blade”
  • Spencer Creaghan & Milen Petzelt Sorace – “My Little Pony Make Your Mark”
  • Stephen Krecklo & Ashley Jane – “How Lucky Am I”

Winner:

  • Jesse Zubot, Wayne Lavallee & Marie Clements – “You Are My Bones”

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Winner:

  • Darren Fung

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