Fourteen SOCAN members nominated for 2011 Genie Awards in music categories

Buck 65 is nominated for two 2011 Genie Awards, for his original song, and his contribution to the original score, of the movie Year of the Carnivore. He's pictured here at the 2005 Canadian Music Café.

SOCAN congratulates 14 of its members nominated in the 2011 Genie Awards, for their outstanding achievements in music for Canadian cinema in the past year. The 31st annual edition of the Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, are set for March 10, 2011, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.They'll be broadcast live on CBC-TV.

The nominees, all SOCAN members (except Pasquale Catalano), are:

Achievement in Music - Original Song
        • Buck 65 - Year of the Carnivore - “What’s Wrong With That?”
        • Mary Milne - The Trotsky - “Already Gone”
        • Cherie Pyne and Matthew J. Thomson - Crackie - “Tender Steps”
        • Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin (of Elliott Brood)
           - Grown Up Movie Star - “West End Sky”
        • Paul J. Spence - FUBAR II - “There’s No Place Like Christmas”

Achievement in Music - Original Score
        • Brendan Canning (of Broken Social Scene) - Trigger
        • Pasquale Catalano - Barney's Version
        • Jonathan Goldsmith – High Life
        • Keegan Jessamy and Bryce Mitchell - At Home, By Myself... With You
        • Sook-Yin Lee, Buck 65 and Adam Litovitz - Year of the Carnivore

For more information, or to view a complete list of nominees, visit the Genie Awards website.