Ari Posner

Ari Posner (born 1970) is a Canadian film and television composer, most noted as a multiple Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award winner for his television scores.^[1]

A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, in 1989 to study music at York University.^[2] He is a frequent collaborator with composer Amin Bhatia.^[3] He has also been a record producer, most notably on Jen Gould's album Music Soup, which was the winner of the Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2008.^[4]

Filmography

Film

• Hand - 1998
• Scalpers - 2000
• The World's Most Fabulous Object - 2007
• Rewind - 2008
• Bedwetter - 2008
• Eating Buccaneers - 2008
• Love Letter from an Open Grave - 2010
• My Awkward Sexual Adventure - 2012
• The Defector: Escape from North Korea - 2012
• All the Wrong Reasons - 2013
• Kissing Drew - 2013
• Survival Guide - 2014
• I Am Syd Stone - 2014
• Butterflies - 2014
• Hit Men - 2014
• The Boy - 2015
• After the Ball - 2015
• My Enemy, My Brother - 2015
• Borealis - 2015
• Hard Close - 2016
• All Yours - 2016
• Prison Fight - 2016
• Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle (Tulipani, Liefde, Eer en een Fiets) - 2017
• Animal - 2017
• The Superfood Chain - 2018
• At the Back - 2020
• A Brief History of the Unicorn - 2021
• The End of Sex - 2022

Television

• Wanna Play? - 2000
• Patti - 2002
• My School Partner's an Astro Bot - 2002-03
• King - 2003
• Franny's Feet - 2003-10
• Life and Times - 2005
• Recipe for a Perfect Christmas - 2005
• Get Ed - 2005-06
• The Doodlebops - 2005-07
• Johnny Test - 2006-14
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey - 2006-08
• Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show - 2010
• Flashpoint - 2008-12
• 24 Hour Rental - 2014
• My Daughter Must Live - 2014
• Not with My Daughter - 2014
• The Madcap Learning Adventure - 2014
• X Company - 2015-17
• Supernoobs - 2015-18
• The Civil War: Brothers Divided - 2016-17
• Anne with an E - 2017-19
• Carter - 2018-19
• Let's Go Luna! - 2018-22
• Northern Rescue - 2019
• Love's March - 2021
• A Chance for Christmas - 2021
• Ghosts of Christmas Past - 2021
• Detention Adventure - 2020-22
• Home for a Royal Heart - 2022
• House of Chains - 2022
• Rosie's Rules - 2022
• Sullivan's Crossing - 2022
• Less Than Kosher - 2022

Awards

Award	Category	Year	Work	Result	Ref(s)
Gemini Awards	Best Original Music, Animation	2005	King: "Stolen Voices"	Won	[1]
		2008	Johnny Test: "Johnny vs. Bling-Bling 3, Stinkin' Johnny"	Nominated	[5]
	Best Original Music, Fiction	2009	Flashpoint: "Planets Aligned"	Nominated	[6]
		2010	Flashpoint: "One Wrong Move"	Nominated
		2011	Flashpoint: "Acceptable Risk"	Nominated
Canadian Screen Awards	Best Original Score for a Series	2013	Flashpoint: "Day Game"	Won	[7]
		2015	24 Hour Rental: "Through the Looking Glass"	Nominated	[8]
		2016	X Company: "Trial by Fire"	Nominated	[9]
		2017	X Company: "Black Flag"	Nominated
	Best Original Score, Fiction	2018	Anne with an E: "Remorse Is the Poison of Life"	Nominated	[10]
			X Company: "Remembrance"	Nominated
		2019	Anne with an E: "I Protest Against Any Absolute Conclusion"	Nominated	[11]
		2020	Anne with an E: "The Summit of My Desires"	Won	[2]
			Carter: "Harley Gets Replaced"	Nominated
	Best Original Music, Animation		Let's Go Luna!: "Bob the Plant"	Nominated
	Best Original Music, Fiction	2021	Detention Adventure: "All the World's a Stage"	Won	[12]
	Best Original Music, Animation		Let's Go Luna!: "Monster Park/Meet the Strongs"	Won
		2022	Let's Go Luna!: "The Way of the Gaucho"	Won	[13]
	Best Original Score	2023	The End of Sex	Nominated	[14]
	Best Original Music, Animation		Let's Go Luna!: "Dig It Daddy-O"	Won	[15]
	Best Original Music, Comedy		Detention Adventure: "Singing in the Raign"	Nominated	[16]
Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music	2006	Get Ed	Nominated	[2]