Cezary Skubiszewski is a Polish-born Australian film and television composer. Among others, he has composed film scores for '' Red Dog'', '' Two Hands'', '' The Sapphires'', and TV series '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''.

Career

Skubiszewski first made his mark composing the

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's ''Lilian's Story''. He has worked with many Australian directors, composing scores for Gregor Jordan's '' Two Hands'', Tony MacNamara's '' The Rage in Placid Lake'' and Gillian Armstrong's ''

Death Defying Acts ''Death Defying Acts'' is a 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of hi ...

''. For his work on film music Skubiszewski has received many awards including two from the Australian Film Institute (AFI) for ''Bootmen'' and ''La Spagnola''. Skubiszewski also co-composed the music to the Australian Army's "Rise" recruiting campaign, Carlton Draught's 'Big Ad' and 'VB Symphony'.

Personal life

He is the father of actress, film director/writer Viva Bianca and composer/music producer

Jan Skubiszewski Jan Skubiszewski (pronounced ) (born 1981) is an Australian multi-award-winning composer, record producer, songwriter and sound engineer from Melbourne, Australia. He is also a professional multi-instrumentalist. His work as a record producer and ...

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

, ''Lilian's Story'' , rowspan="5" , Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album , , rowspan="5" , ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, ''The Sound of One Hand Clapping'' , , - ,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

, ''After the Deluge (Original Television Mini-series Soundtrack)'' , , - ,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

, ''Night'' , , - ,

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

, ''Red Dog: True Blue (original soundtrack)'' , , -

Australasian Performing Rights Association

* 1998 - Best Film Score for ''The Sound of One Hand Clapping'' - nom * 1999 - Best Film Score for ''Two Hands'' (with

) - won

Australian Film Critics Association Awards

* 2013 - Best Music Score ''The Sapphire'' - Won * 2015- Best Original Music Score in Television ''The Broken Shore'' - Nominated 2014 Nominated AACTA Award Best Sound in a Documentary Once My Mother (2014) Shared with: Michael Gissing Mark Keating 2012 Nominated AACTA Award Best Original Music Score Red Dog (2011) 2010 Nominated AFI Award Best Original Music Score Beneath Hill 60 (2010) Best Original Music Score Bran Nue Dae (2009) Shared with: Jimmy Chi Patrick Duttoo Bin Amat Garry Gower Michael Manolis Mavromatis Stephen Pigram 2009 Nominated AFI Award Best Sound in a Documentary Lionel (2008) Shared with: Nick Batterham Keith Thomas 2006 Nominated AFI Award Best Original Music Score The Book of Revelation (2006) 2003 Nominated Open Craft Award Television After the Deluge (2003) For original music. 2001 Won AFI Award Best Original Music Score La spagnola (2001) 2000 Won AFI Award Best Original Music Score Bootmen (2000) 1999 Nominated AFI Award Best Original Music Score Two Hands (1999) 1996 Nominated AFI Award Best Original Music Score Lilian's Story (1996)

Australian Guild of Screen Composers

1999 Won Australian Screen Music Award Best Original Music for a Feature Film Two Hands (1999) Nominated Australian Screen Music Award Best Original Music for a Feature Film Strange Fits of Passion (1999)

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

2013 Won FCCA Award Best Music Score The Sapphires (2012) 2012 Nominated FCCA Award Best Music Score Red Dog (2011) 2011 Won FCCA Award Best Music Score Bran Nue Dae (2009) Nominated FCCA Award Best Music Score Beneath Hill 60 (2010) 2009 Nominated FCCA Award Best Music Score Death Defying Acts (2007) 2006 Won FCCA Award Best Music Score The Book of Revelation (2006) 2002 Nominated FCCA Award Best Music Score La spagnola (2001) 2001 Won FCCA Award Best Music Score Bootmen (2000) Tied with Edmund Choi for Dish, The (2000)__. 2000 Nominated FCCA Award Best Music Score Two Hands (1999)

IF Awards

* 2011 Won IF Award Best Music Red Dog * 2010 Nominated IF Award Best Music Bran Nue Dae

International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)

2008 Nominated IFMCA Award Best Original Score for a Documentary Night (2008)

APRA-AGSC Awards

The annual Screen Music Awards are presented by

Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...

(APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for television and film scores and soundtracks. , - , rowspan="4",

, , rowspan="3", ''

After the Deluge ''After the Deluge'' is a 2003 Australian television miniseries starring Ray Barrett, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving and Samuel Johnson. It was first broadcast by Channel Ten in two parts in June 2003. Cast * David Wenham – Alex Kirby * Hug ...

'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Soundtrack Album , , , - , Best Television Theme , , , - , Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie , , , - , ''

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'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Feature Film Score , , , - ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

, , '' The Brush-Off'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie , , , - , 2006 , , '' The Society Murders'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie , , , - , rowspan="2",

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

, , rowspan="2", '' The Book of Revelation'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Feature Film Score of the Year , , , - , Best Soundtrack Album , , , - , rowspan="2",

, , ''Night'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Documentary , , , - , "Free Falling 2" (Cezary Skubiszewski,

, Andy Baldwin, Clairanne Browne, Jules Pascoe) – ''Night'' , , Best Original Song Composed for the Screen , , , - , rowspan="2", 2009 , , ''

'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Soundtrack Album , , , - , '' Carla Cametti PD'' (Cezary Skubiszewski, Jan Skubiszewski) , , Best Television Theme , , , - , 2010 , , ''

Beneath Hill 60 ''Beneath Hill 60'' is a 2010 Australian war film directed by Jeremy Sims (credited as Jeremy Hartley Sims) and written by David Roach. Set during World War I, the film tells the story of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company's efforts in mi ...

'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Feature Film Score , , , - ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, , '' The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie , , , - , rowspan="3",

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

, , ''Once My Mother'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Documentary , , , - , ''Serangoon Road'' – "Episode 6" (Cezary Skubiszewski, Jan Skubiszewski) , , Best Music for a Television Series or Serial , , , - , '' The Broken Shore'' (Cezary Skubiszewski) , , Best Soundtrack Album , ,

Selected discography

*1981 ''Home at Last'' (symphony) *1991 ''Soundescape'' (music theatre) *1994 ''

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'' (TV) *1995 ''Lilian's Story'' (film) *1996 ''Hurah'' a.k.a. ''Heaven Sent'' (film) *1998 ''The Sound of One Hand Clapping'' (film) *1999 '' Two Hands'' (film) *1999 ''

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'' (TV film) *2000 ''Bootmen'' (film) *2000 '' The Wog Boy'' *2001 '' La Spagnola'' *2002 ''Black and White'' (film) *2003 ''After the Deluge'' (TV) *2003 '' The Rage in Placid Lake'' *2004 '' The Brush-Off'' (TV) *2005 ''Hating Alison Ashley'' (film) *2006 '' The Book of Revelation (film) *2006 ''The Society Murders'' (TV) *2007 ''Death Defying Acts'' (film) *2008 ''

Night Night (also described as night time, unconventionally spelled as "nite") is the period of ambient darkness from sunset Sunset, also known as sundown, is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon due to Earth's rotation. As view ...

'' (film) *2008 (Lionel) (film) *2009 ''Carla Cametti PD'' (TV) *2009 ''Blessed'' (film) *2009 ''Bran Nue Dae'' (film) *2010 ''

'' (film) *2010 Wolf Blass television advertisements *2011 '' Red Dog'' (film) *2012 '' The Sapphires'' (film) *2015 '' Oddball'' (film) *2016 '' Red Dog: True Blue'' (film) *2018 ''

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'' (film)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Skubiszewski, Cezary 1948 births APRA Award winners Polish composers Polish film score composers Living people Male film score composers Polish emigrants to Australia