{"id":633,"date":"2013-11-11T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?page_id=633"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:56:16","slug":"compositions-filmtvstageradio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?page_id=633","title":{"rendered":"Film awards and nominations page"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Film\/Television Awards\/Nominations:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1130\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Island of Whales<\/strong>-Yorkton International Film Festival-<strong>Golden Sheaf-Best Original Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Finding_Dawn_DVD_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finding Dawn<\/strong>-National Film Board-<strong>Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1285\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/coastsalishknitters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story Of The Coast Salish Knitters<\/strong>&#8211; National Film Board-Prairie Girl Films-Christine Welsh- <strong>Multiple awards all over the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweatlodge<\/strong>-Omni-<strong>Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1131\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Son the Pornographer-<\/strong>Gumboot-<strong>Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cliff Hangers<\/strong>-Out Yonder-<strong>Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tale-of-a-Whale-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tale-of-a-Whale-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tale-of-a-Whale.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2020- <strong>Tale Of A Whale<\/strong>-Edward Milne Society-Phobe Dunbar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=1284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2019- <strong>The Least We Can Do<\/strong>-Moira Simpson- Bridge Fest Vancouver <a class=\"ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__t\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/event\/ev0001605\/2020\/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_2\" aria-disabled=\"false\">2020 Winner<span class=\"ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__tst\"> Grand Prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2017- <strong>The Thinking Garden<\/strong>-Christine Welsh. Matrix Award-Vancouver International Women In Film Festival<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?attachment_id=880\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-880\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Thinking-Garden-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Thinking-Garden-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Thinking-Garden-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Thinking-Garden.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ruddell has scored more than one hundred film and television projects. Many of the twenty-plus National Film Board projects and Independent film projects Mr. Ruddell has scored have won prestigious national and international awards. <strong>Island Of Whales<\/strong>, narrated by the late Gregory Peck, won Mr. Ruddell the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best Original Score.<strong>\u00a0Sweatlodge<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Finding Dawn<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>My Son The Pornographer, and Cliff Hangers<\/strong>\u00a0were all <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LEO\u00a0<\/b><\/span>nominations for outstanding original scores. \u00a0Some television credits include the extremely long-running series\u00a0<strong>Weird Homes<\/strong>, the FOX six-hour miniseries\u00a0<strong>Mafia Bride<\/strong>\u00a0starring \u00a0Eli Wallach and the HBO movie\u00a0<strong>A Stranger In Town. Please visit Bruce Ruddell IMDb for a partial list of film\/television scores.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ruddell\u2019s theatrical scores have been heard in theatres across the country including the <strong>Stratford Festival<\/strong> and the <strong>National Arts Centre.<\/strong> He has served as composer-in-residence with the <strong>Vancouver Playhouse<\/strong> and <strong>The Charlottetown Festival<\/strong> where he was also Associate Music Director for two seasons arranging and directing the music for\u00a0<strong>Are You Lonesome Tonight- <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The Mind Bogles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Ruddell has scored numerous radio dramas for the <strong>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film\/Television Awards\/Nominations: Island of Whales-Yorkton International Film Festival-Golden Sheaf-Best Original Score Finding Dawn-National Film Board-Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score The Story Of The Coast Salish Knitters&#8211; National Film Board-Prairie Girl Films-Christine Welsh- Multiple awards all over the world Sweatlodge-Omni-Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score My Son the Pornographer-Gumboot-Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score Cliff Hangers-Out Yonder-Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score 2020- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-633","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Film awards and nominations page - Bruce Ruddell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bruceruddell.com\/?page_id=633\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Film awards and nominations page - Bruce Ruddell\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Film\/Television Awards\/Nominations: Island of Whales-Yorkton International Film Festival-Golden Sheaf-Best Original Score Finding Dawn-National Film Board-Leo Nomination-Best Musical Score The Story Of The Coast Salish Knitters&#8211; 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