SOCAN congratulates 11 of its members nominated in the 2010 Genie Awards, for their outstanding achievements in music for Canadian cinema in the past year. The 30th annual edition of the Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, are set for April 12, 2010, at the Guvernment/Kool Haus entertainment complex in the waterfront district of Toronto.

The nominees (all SOCAN members except Susan Avingaq) are:

• Susan Avingaq - Before Tomorrow – “Pamani”
• John Welsman, Cherie Camp - Nurse.Fighter.Boy – “Oh Love”
• Sari Dajani, Iohann Martin, Rudy Toussaint, John Von Aichlinger - Les Grandes Chaleurs/Heat Wave – “Bon Swa”

• Benoît Charest - Polytechnique
• Bertrand Chénier - Love & Savagery
• Christian Clermont – 5150, Rue des Ormes/5150 Elm's Way
• Normand Corbeil - Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles/The Master Key
• Ben Mink - Fifty Dead Men Walking

Leading the pack with 11 nominations is Polytechnique, including nods for Best Motion Picture and Best Direction. Following closely behind are Nurse.Fighter.Boy (10 nominations), Before Tomorrow (nine), Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles/The Master Key (eight) and Fifty Dead Men Walking (seven).

SOCAN has been a corporate member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema since 1998.