Tom Third is a Canadian film and television composer. He is most noted as a two-time Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award recipient, winning Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Program, Mini-Series or TV Movie at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for The Summit , [1] and Best Original Music Score for a Program at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Borealis . [2]
He has also received two Gemini nominations for his work on the television series ReGenesis at the 21st Gemini Awards in 2006 and the 22nd Gemini Awards in 2007, [3] and three CSA nominations for Original Music, Fiction for his work on the television series Coroner at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, [4] the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, [5] and the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. [6]
In 2022 he received two nominations for the Screen Composers Guild of Canada's inaugural Canadian Screen Music Awards, garnering nods in Best Original Score for a Series or Limited Series for Coroner and Best Original Score for a Non-Fiction Series or Limited Series for BLK, An Origin Story . [7]
He is the partner of documentary filmmaker Christy Garland. [8]