List of awards and nominations received by Murdoch Mysteries

List of awards and nominations received by Murdoch Mysteries

Total number of wins and nominations
Totals	13	70
Footnotes

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series aired on both City and CBC Television, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario, around the turn of the twentieth century

Total nominations and awards for the cast

Actor	Nominations	Awards
Yannick Bisson	3	2
Hélène Joy	3	0
Jonny Harris	3	0
Thomas Craig	2	0
Mouna Traoré	1	0
Nigel Bennett	1	0

ACTRA Toronto Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2016	Outstanding Performance – Male	Nigel Bennett (episode: "What Lies Buried")	Nominated	[1]
2017	Outstanding Performance - Series Ensemble	Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris, Thomas Craig, Mouna Traoré		[2]

Canadian Cinema Editors Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2011	Best Editing in Long Form Television Series	Don Cassidy (episode: "Me, Myself and Murdoch")	Nominated	[3]
2012		Vesna Svilanovic (episode: "Murdoch in Wonderland")		[4]

Canadian Screen Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2013	Cross-Platform Project, Fiction	Shane Kinnear, Jay Bennett, Daniel Dales, Christina Jennings, Jarrett Sherman (Murdoch Mysteries: The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs)	Nominated	[5]
	Best Achievement in Make-Up	Debi Drennan (episode: "Murdoch in Wonderland")
	Best Direction in a Dramatic Series	Laurie Lynd (episode: "Dead End Street")
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role	Hélène Joy		[6]
	Best Achievement in Make‐Up	Deb Drennan (episode: "Victoria Cross")
	Best Cross‐Platform Project, Fiction	Allen Martin, Christina Jennings, Diang Iu, Fergus Heywood, Jay Bennett, Mike Evans, Sarah Adams, Scott Garvie (Murdoch Mysteries: Nightmare on Queen St)		[7]
2015	Best Achievement in Make-Up	Deb Drennan (episode: "Friday the 13th, 1901")	Won	[8]
	Best Costume Design	Alexander Reda (episode: "Murdoch in Ragtime")
	Best Original Music Score for a Series	Robert Carli (episode: "Murdoch Ahoy")	Nominated
	Best Visual Effects	Robert Crowther, Tony Cybulski, Steve Elliott, Mark Fordham, Min Young Kim, Jason Stalker, Jay Stanners, Liana van Rensburg, Allan Walker, Lexi Young (episode: "Murdoch Ahoy")
2016	Best Original Music Score for a Series	Robert Carli (episode: "On the Waterfront: Part One")		[9]
	Fan's Choice Award	Yannick Bisson	Won	[10]
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series	Hélène Joy (A Merry Murdoch Christmas)	Nominated	[11]
	Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series	Michael McGowan (A Merry Murdoch Christmas)	Won
	Best Achievement in Make-Up	Deb Drennan, Shirley Bond (episode: "Summer of '75")	Nominated
	Best Costume Design	Alexander Reda (episode: "Unlucky in Love")
	Best Original Music Score for a Program	Robert Carli (episode: "A Merry Murdoch Christmas")	Won
	Best Performance in a Guest Role Dramatic Series	William Shatner	Nominated
	Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series	Armando Sgrignuoli, Kent McIntyre (episode: "24 Hours til Doomsday")
	Best TV Movie or Limited Series	Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Peter Mitchell, Yannick Bisson, Julie Lacey, Stephen Montgomery (A Merry Murdoch Christmas)	Won
	Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series	Peter Mitchell (A Merry Murdoch Christmas)

Directors Guild of Canada Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2010	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Television Series	Mark Beck, Jonas Kuhnemann, Richard Calistan, Joseph Doane (episode: "Werewolves")	Won	[12]
	Outstanding Achievement in Production Design - Television Series	Aidan Leroux (episode: "The Great Wall")	Nominated
2015	Production Design - Television Series	Armando Sgrignuoli (episode: M"urdoch and the Temple of Death")		[13]
	Best Sound Editing - Television Series	Mark Beck, Jonas Kuhnemann, Richard Calistan, Joseph Doane (episode: "Murdoch and the Temple of Death")
2016	Best Sound Editing - Television Movie/Mini-Series	Mark Beck, Jonas Kuhnemann, Richard Calistan, Joseph Doane (A Merry Murdoch Christmas)		[14]
2017		Mark Beck, Richard Calistan, Joseph Doane, Jonas Kuhnemann (Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas)		[15]

Gemini Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2008	Best Dramatic Series	Christina Jennings, Cal Coons, Scott Garvie, Noel Hedges, Jan Peter Meyboom	Nominated	[16]
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series	Thomas Craig
		Jonny Harris
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series	Dmitry Chepovetsky (episode: "Power")
		Gavin Crawford (episode: "Belly Speaker")	Won
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series	Stephen McHattie (episode: "Let Loose the Dogs")	Nominated
		Vincent Walsh (episode: "The Rebel and the Prince")
	Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series	Kate Trotter (episode: "Body Double")
	Best Original Music Score for a Program or Series	Robert Carli (episode: "Bad Medicine")	Won
	Best Achievement in Make-Up	Debi Drennan (episode: "The Rebel and the Prince")	Nominated	[17]
	Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series	David Perrault (episode: "Annoying Red Planet")
	Best Visual Effects	Thomas Turnbull, Robert Crowther, Ian Britton, Hojin Park, Megumi Kanazawa, Andrew Nguyen, David Lamb, Matthew Hansen (episode: "Power")
	Best Achievement in Casting	Deirdre Bowen
	Best Writing in a Dramatic Series	Janet MacLean (episode: "Til Death Do Us Part")
2009	Best Achievement in Main Title Design	Shane Kinnear, Kevin Chandoo, Brent Whitmore		[18]
	Best Achievement in Make Up	Debi Drennan, Regan Noble (episode: "The Green Muse")
	Best Original Music Score for a Program or Series	Robert Carli (episode: "Werewolves")	Won
	Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series	Jim Jeffrey (episode: "Werewolves")	Nominated
	Best Writing in a Dramatic Series	Lori Spring (episode: "I, Murdoch")
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series	Jonny Harris
2010	Best Writing in a Dramatic Series	Larry Lalonde, Philip Bedard (episode: "Hangman")		[17]
	Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series	Anastasia Phillips (episode: "Me, Myself, & Murdoch")		[19]
	Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series	James Jeffrey (episode: "The Murdoch Identity")		[17]
	Best Original Music Score for a Program or Series	Robert Carli (episode: "Me, Myself, & Murdoch")

International Digital Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2012	Digital Program: Fiction	Smokebomb Entertainment/Shaftesbury Films/Citytv Canada (Murdoch Mysteries: The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs)	Nominated	[20]

Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2010	Episodic One Hour	Derek Schreyer (episode: "Mild Mild West")	Nominated	[21]
2012	Drama Series	Graham Clegg (episode: "Kommando")		[22]
	Shorts and Web Series	Patrick Tarr (episodes; "The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs" and "The Vanished Corpse")	Won	[23]
2020	Drama Series	Simon McNabb (episode "Sins of the Father")	Nominated	[24]

Prix Aurora Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2017	Best Visual Presentation	Peter Mitchell and Christina Jennings	Nominated	[25]

Young Artist Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Reference
2009	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor	Jesse Bostick	Nominated	[26]
2014	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress 10 and Under	Arcadia Kendal		[27]
	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor 10 and Under	Christian Distefano	Won
2016	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress 11-13	Zoe Fraser	Nominated	[28]
	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special - Leading Young Actress	Peyton Kennedy

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