The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Music: Original Song to the best original song in a Canadian motion picture.
First presented at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards until 2011. Since 2012, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
| Year | Nominees | Song | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 1st Genie Awards | ||||
| No award presented | [1] | |||
| 1981 2nd Genie Awards | ||||
| No award presented | [1] | |||
| 1982 3rd Genie Awards | ||||
| Stéphane Venne | "Il était une fois des gens heureux" | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) | [1] | |
| Ann Mortifee | "Gypsy Born" | Surfacing | [2] | |
| Neil Young | "Comes a Time" | Silence of the North | ||
| 1983 4th Genie Awards | ||||
| Burton Cummings | "You Saved My Soul" | Melanie | [1] | |
| Claude Fonfrède, Raoul Duguay | "Le quéteux d'amour" | Wild Flowers (Les fleurs sauvages) | [3] | |
| Réjean Marois, Fernand Dansereau | "Doux aveux" | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | ||
| Fred Mollin | "Just One Chance to Be Free" | Spring Fever | ||
| Luc Plamondon, Germain Gauthier | "Call Girl" | Scandale | ||
| Leslie Pouliot | "My Love for You" | Harry Tracy, Desperado | ||
| 1984 5th Genie Awards | ||||
| Bo Harwood, Bobby Pollard | "Ups & Downs" | Ups and Downs | [1] | |
| Jimmy Bond | "Feel It" | Just a Game (Rien qu'un jeu) | [4] | |
| André Vincelli | "Talk About It" | A 20th Century Chocolate Cake | ||
| 1985 6th Genie Awards | ||||
| Yves Laferrière, Marjolène Morin, Paule Baillargeon | "Touch Me" | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) | [1] | |
| Germain Gauthier, Robert Léger, Daniele Faubert | "L'Amour a pris son temps" | The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques) | [5] | |
| Betty Lazebnik, Charles Dennis | "A Little Piece of Forever" | Reno and the Doc | ||
| 1986 7th Genie Awards | ||||
| Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen | "Angel Eyes" | Night Magic | [1] | |
| Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen | "Fire" | Night Magic | [6] | |
| Lewis Furey, Eddy Marney, Howard Foreman, Judy Richard | "Michael's Song" | The Peanut Butter Solution (Opération beurre de pinottes) | ||
| Michel Rivard | "Le temps nous dépasse" | Jacques and November (Jacques et novembre) | ||
| John Sebastian | "Nobody Cares Like a Bear" | The Care Bears Movie | ||
| 1987 8th Genie Awards | ||||
| Danielle Messia | "De la main gauche" | Anne Trister | [1] | |
| Robert Joy, Andy Jones | "Show Goin' On" | The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood | [7] | |
| Peter Pringle, Kevin Hunter | "Cold As Ice" | Toby McTeague | ||
| Gilles Vigneault | "Les îles de l'enfance" | Equinox (Équinoxe) | ||
| Peter R. Simpson, Paul Zaza | "Out of the Fire" | Bullies | ||
| 1988 9th Genie Awards | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Bonin, Daniel De Shaimes, Jean Corriveau, Robert Stanley | "Lost in a Hurricane" | Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) | [1] | |
| William D. MacGillivray | "Mary's Lament" | Life Classes | [8] | |
| Maribeth Solomon | "Rise and Shine" | The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland | ||
| Guy Trépanier | "The Great Land of Small" | The Great Land of Small (C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand!) | ||
| Howard Forman, Krzesimir Dębski | "When We're Together" | The Young Magician (Le jeune magicien) | ||
| 1989 10th Genie Awards | ||||
| Louis Natale, Anne Wheeler | "Cowboys Don't Cry" | Cowboys Don't Cry | [1] | |
| Normand Dubé, Guy Trépanier, Nathalie Carson | "We Are the One" | The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) | [9] | |
| Louise Bennett | "You're Going Home" | Milk and Honey | ||
| Jay Gruska, Marc Jordan | "Shadow Dance" | Shadow Dancing | ||
| Rufus Wainwright | "I'm Running" | Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | ||