Amanda Cawley! Amanda won the award this weekend for Best Musical Score, Short Drama (Charlie is Not a Boy).
This was Amanda's 2nd Leo Award. She has 7 other Leo nominations, 2 Canadian Screen Music Awards, 2 Canadian Screen Music Award nominations, a Canadian Screen Award nomination and a SOCAN Foundation Award.
Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!
Matthew Rogers! Matt won 2 Leo Awards this weekend: Best Musical Score, Motion Picture (Worldbreaker); and Best Musical Score, Television Movie (How to Lose a Popularity Contest).
These were Matt's 8th and 9th Leo Award wins. He has 21 other nominations. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!
TOM THIRD! Canada's cinema and television elite converged on the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto last week to honour its Academy award winners. We're proud to announce that composer Tom Third won 'Best Original Music in a Feature Length Documentary' for his fabulous score to Nicole Bazuin's MODERN WHORE.
This is Tom's 2nd CSA win, he has 8 other nominations. Core composers received a total of 7 nominations this year. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees.
A huge congratulations go out to Core composers who earned a total of 6 Leo Award nominations today. Matt Rogers received 2 nominations for his scores to WORLDBREAKER and HOW TO LOSE A POPULARITY CONTEST; Hamish Thompson for his score to AINSLEY MACGREGOR MYSTERIES: A CASE FOR THE WATCHMAKER; Jeff Tymoschuk for his score to TIME HELMET; Amanda Cawley for her score to CHARLIE IS NOT A BOY; and Christopher Nickel for his score to SANDPIPERS' LAST SUPPER.
In the quaint New England town of Founders’ Cove, a bestselling novelist (Brooke Shields, When Calls the Heart), forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer and true crime podcaster (Amalia Williamson, Sullivan’s Crossing), to find the killer of a close friend. As more murders pile up, the pair of amateur sleuths clash with a local police detective (Tom Cavanagh, The Flash).
Scored by Core composer ALEXANDRA PETKOVSKI, the show will see its Acorn TV premiere on May 18, 2026.