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Cezary Skubiszewski

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Cezary Jan Skubiszewski (born 1948) is a Polish-born Australian film and television composer.[1] He composed the film scores for Two Hands (1999), Red Dog (2011), The Sapphires (2012) and the TV series, Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018).

Personal life and education

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Skubiszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His mother was a concert pianist.[1][2] Skubiszewski, himself began piano lessons at 8 years of age and received a classical musical education over a period of 10 years under the tutelage of the director of the Warsaw Opera. [3] In the late 1960s, Skubiszewski played in bands including ACB with other Warsaw musicians such as Aleksander Bem, Bem's sister Ewa, a vocalist, Jan Ciecierski and Grzegorz Kędzierski.[4] While touring and performing in Europe with Alexis Korner, the British Blues musician and radio broadcaster, Skubiszewski injured his hand in a horse-riding accident.[2] He then spent one year in Paris and did not return to Poland due to the nation's political situation and his own sense of wanderlust.[1]

In 1974, Skubiszewski moved to Australia.[1][2] With an interest in both horses and biology, Skubiszewski commenced a undergraduate degree in veterinary medicine at the University of Melbourne.[2] In August 1978, Skubiszewski became an Australian citizen. Skubiszewski has two daughters, Viva Bianca and Jan Skubiszewski. Both work in the Australian entertainment industry. [5][6]

Career

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In Australia, during 1978 and 1979, Skubiszewski played the Moog synthesizer, Rhodes piano and Clavinet in his jazz fusion band, Corroboree (an Aboriginal Australian word meaning a meeting involving traditional dance and song).[7][8]

Skubiszewski's beginning as a professional music composer began with a piece urgently required for an advertisement for Lincraft, an Australian haberdashery chain store company.[2] He first received widespread recognition as a composer when his film score for the movie, Lilian's Story won awards for best music at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.[9] Of this score, Skubiszewski said, "It was a very special experience. I wanted to find a nucleus of feeling without the little trills. It sits on you emotionally without bombarding you."[2]

Since then, Skubiszewski has worked as a self-supporting composer and arranger, conductor, producer, and musician.[9]

His music is heard in television programs such as Neighbours, 19 episodes of the 1994 Australian children's program Sky Trackers (1996) and 13 episodes of Driven Crazy (1998).[10] In 2018, Skubiszewski wrote the soundtrack for the Picnic at Hanging Rock television series.[10]

Skubiszewski's movies scores include Two Hands (1999), Red Dog (2011) and The Sapphires (2012).

Among his compositions for commercials is Skubiszewski's work for Carlton Draught: Big Ad, a parody of the epic style of historical movies and advertisements of large companies. He created a re-working of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with humorous lyrics.[11]

Awards and nominations

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Skubiszewski has been nominated in Australian award programs and has won on several occasions.[12] These programs include the APRA Awards, the ARIA Music Awards, the Film Critics Circle of Australia awards and others.[12] Skubiszewski was nominated on five occasions in the ARIAS for Lillian's Story, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, After the Deluge, Night and Red Dog: True Blue.[12] In 2013, the Australian Film Critics Association gave Skubiszewski the award for best music score for The Sapphire. Skubiszewski won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award for best original music score for Falling for Figaro (2021).[12] Two Hands won the Australian Guild of Screen Composers in 1999.[12] Skubiszewski has won the Film Critics Circle award on five occasions and nominated on another two. In 2000, Skubiszewski tied with Edmund Choi with The Dish. He received the best music score award for Bootmen (2000), The Book of Revelation (2006), Bran Nue Dae (2009) and The Sapphires (2012). His nominations were for Beneath the Hill (2010) and Death Defying Acts (2007).[12] Red Dog also won an Inside Film award in 2011.

APRA Music Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
1996 Lilian's Story (Cezary Skubiszewski) Best Film Score Nominated [13]
1999 The Sound of One Hand Clapping (C Skubiszewski) Best Film Score Nominated [14][15]
2000 Two Hands (C Skubiszewski, Jan Skubiszewski) Best Film Score Won [16][17]
2003 After the Deluge (C Skubiszewski) Best Soundtrack Album Won [18]
Best Television Theme Nominated [19]
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Nominated [20]
Black and White (C Skubiszewski) Best Feature Film Score Nominated [21]
2005 The Brush-Off (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Nominated [22]
2006 The Society Murders (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Nominated [23]
2007 The Book of Revelation (C Skubiszewski) Feature Film Score of the Year Nominated [24]
Best Soundtrack Album Nominated [25]
2008 Night (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Documentary Won [26]
"Free Falling 2" (C Skubiszewski, J Skubiszewski, Andy Baldwin, Clairanne Browne, Jules Pascoe) – Night Best Original Song Composed for the Screen Nominated [27]
2009 Death Defying Acts (C Skubiszewski) Best Soundtrack Album Won [28]
Carla Cametti PD (C Skubiszewski, J Skubiszewski) Best Television Theme Nominated [29]
2010 Beneath Hill 60 (C Skubiszewski) Best Feature Film Score Nominated [30]
2013 The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Won [31]
2014 Once My Mother (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Documentary Won [32][33]
Serangoon Road – "Episode 6" (C Skubiszewski, J Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Television Series or Serial Won [32][34]
The Broken Shore (C Skubiszewski) Best Soundtrack Album Won [32][35]
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Nominated [32][36]
Parer’s War (C Skubiszewski) Nominated
2015 Women He's Undressed (C Skubiszewski)) Best Soundtrack Album Nominated [37][38]
2016 Oddball (C Skubiszewski)) Feature Film Score of the Year Nominated [39][40]
2017 Monsieur Mayonnaise (C Skubiszewski)) Best Music for a Documentary Nominated [41][42]
Monsieur Mayonnaise (Deborah Morgan, C Skubiszewski) Best Soundtrack Album Nominated [41][43]
2018 Picnic at Hanging Rock (C Skubiszewski, J Skubiszewski)) Best Music for a Television Series or Serial Won [44][45]
2019 Me and My Left Brain (C Skubiszewski) Best Soundtrack Album Nominated [46][47]
2021 Chef Antonio's Recipes for Revolution (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Documentary Nominated [48][49]
Halifax: Retribution (C Skubiszewski, J Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Nominated
Best Television Theme Won
2023 Flyways (C Skubiszewski) Best Music for a Documentary Won [50][51]

Selected discography

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References

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