MAJOR AWARDS and NOMINATIONS
Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution (Documentary)
AACTA Nomination for Best Original Score in Documentary 2022
The Story of Earth (IMAX) (Documentary)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nomination for Best Music in a documentary 2018
My Mother’s Lost Children (BBC) (Documentary)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nomination for Best Music in a documentary 2018
Doctor Blake Mysteries (Television Drama)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS Nominated for Best Music in a Television Series 2018 (season 5)
Mother With A Gun (Netflix USA) (Documentary)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nomination for Best Music in a documentary 2017
Uranium, Twisting the Dragon’s Tail (Documentary Series)
AACTA nomination for Best Music in a documentary 2015
Doctor Blake Mysteries (Television Drama)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS Nominated for Best Music in a Television Series 2014 (season 2)
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (Television Drama)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARD for Best Television Theme 2013
Dr. Sarmast’s Music School (Documentary)
AACTA AWARD for Best Sound/Music for a Documentary 2012
Gallipoli From Above (Documentary)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nomination for Best Music in a Documentary 2011
Ved Verdens Ende/At World’s End (Feature Film)
Danish Film Academy Awards nomination for Best Music in a Feature Film 2010
Polo’s Robot
(Short Film)
AUSTRALIAN SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nomination for Best Music in a Short Film 2010
Adam Elliot’s ‘Mary & Max’ (Feature Film)
IF Award nomination for Best Music in a Feature Film 2009
Till Human Voices Wake Us (Feature Film)
The Age Newspaper, Critic’s Choice, Best Australian Feature Film Score 2002
Rip Curl – The Search – Corporate Worldwide
Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award for Best Music in a Corporate Film 2000
Mirvac ‘Melburnian’ String Quartet
Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award for Best Music in a Corporate Film 1999
As Seen On
SCREEN MUSIC & OTHER MAJOR WORKS
- Music Director-Composer QIDDIYA IRL GAMING CITY (2022 – )
- BREAKAWAY FEMMES (2024) Feature Documentary
- THE WAY HOME (2024) Short Documentary
- SENSES OF CINEMA (2022) MIFF Premier Fund Feature Documentary
- AGE OF RAGE – THE AUSTRALIAN PUNK REVOLUTION (2021) Feature Documentary Sheffield DocFest, MIFF, DOCnROLL (UK), Antenna, Adelaide & Brisbane Films Festivals
- CRACKING COVID (2021) ABC feature length documentary
- PHIL LIGGETT – THE VOICE OF CYCLING (2020) Adelaide Film Festival & national release through HOYTS cinemas (2021)
- NIGHT SHIFT (2020) Short Film (drama)
- THE GREAT BARRIER REEF (2019) IMAX Giant Screen 3D Documentary
- WAR MOTHERS – UNBREAKABLE (2019) Short Film – Tribeca Film Festival (NYC) Sydney Film Festival (AUS) & AACTA Best Short Doco Nomination (2019)
- EARTH STORY (2018) IMAX Giant Screen 3D Documentary. Nominated for Best Music in a Documentary Australian Screen Music Awards 2018
- THE BLAKE MYSTERIES (2018) Starring Nadine Garner, Channel 7 Feature Length Telemovie
- THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES (2013-2017) 44 x 52min & 1 x 106min Drama, Seasons 1-5, on ABC & BBC One. Winner of Best Television Theme (2013) & twice nominated for Best Music in a Television Series (2014 & 2018) at the Australian Screen Music Awards
- MY MOTHER’S LOST CHILDREN (2017) Feature Length Documentary BBC/ABC. Nominated for Best Music in a Documentary Australian Screen Music Awards 2018
- FAIR GAME (2017) 52min Documentary for SBS
- THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN SPACE (2016) IMAX Giant Screen 3D Documentary
- MOTHER WITH A GUN (2016) Feature Length Documentary, Netflix U.S. Nominated for Best Music in a Documentary Australian Screen Music Awards 2017
- BLINKY BILL (2015) (children’s animation) feature film with the voices of Robin McLeavy, Toni Collette, Ryan Kwanten, Barry Humphries and Deborah Mailman
- URANIUM – TWISTING THE DRAGON’S TAIL (2015) 3 x 52min Documentary Series, PBS America, SBS, ZDF, ARTE, AACTA nomination Best Original Music Score in a Documentary 2015
- REMEMBERING THE MAN (2015) feature-length documentary, AACTA nomination Best Feature Documentary 2016
- BACKTRACK (2014) (psychological thriller) feature film written & directed by Michael Petroni. Starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neil. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival NYC 2015
- HIDDEN UNIVERSE (2013), IMAX Giant Screen 3D documentary
- JFK – THE SMOKING GUN (2013) 92min Dramatised Documentary, ReelZ Channel U.S.A. & SBS Aust.
- DEVIL ISLAND (2013) Natural History Series (6 x 1/2hr) ABC, ITV, FranceTV
- AIM HIGH IN CREATION (2013) Feature Length Documentary, official selection Melbourne International Film Festival 2013
- ACID OCEAN/LETHAL SEAS (PBS America) (2013) Natural History Documentary
- POSSUM WARS (2013) ABC Australia Natural History Documentary
- CLIFFY – The Cliff Young Story (feature length drama) (2012) ABC tele-movie
- DIRTY BUSINESS (2012) 3 x 52min documentary series for SBS
- DR. SARMAST’S MUSIC SCHOOL (2012) feature length documentary, Sydney Int. Film Festival & AACTA Award for Best Sound/Music in a documentary
- QUEEN OF THE DESERT (2012) documentary for ABC
- ANATOMY: BRAIN (2012) documentary for ABC
- GALLIPOLI FROM ABOVE (2012) documentary for History Channel, nominated for Best Music in a Documentary at The Australian Screen Music Awards 2012
- AUSTRALIA ON TRIAL (2011) documentary drama series (3 x 1hr) ABC
- THE TRIANGLE WARS (2011) feature length documentary, official selection Melbourne International Film Festival
- AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST FLOOD (2011) documentary for National Geographic U.S.A.
- CASSOWARIES (2010) Narrated by David Attenborough – BBC Natural World S27 E13
- Composer for Australia’s pavilion at the WORLD EXPO in Shanghai, China (2010)
- OUT OF THE ASHES (2010) ABC & WNET New York
- PENGUIN ISLAND (2010) 6 x 50mins documentary series BBC1, ABC, ARTE France & National Geographic. Nominated for Best Music @ Wild Talk Africa International, along with BBC’s The Great Tide & Disney Nature’s A Love Story That Feeds the Earth
- CHARLES BEAN’S GREAT WAR (2010) documentary for The History Channel
- MARY & MAX (2009) (claymation) feature film written & directed by Adam Elliot. Featuring the voices of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries. Opening Night Selection Sundance Film Festival 2009. Nominated Best Music in a Feature Film at the 2009 Australian IF Awards
- AT WORLD’S END (2009) (action/adventure/comedy) feature film starring Nikolaj Kie Kaas & Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones). Nominated for Best Music in a Feature Film Danish Film Academy Awards 2009
- CHARLIE & BOOTS (2009) (drama/comedy) feature film starring Shane Jacobson & Paul Hogan
- 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE (2009) documentary, Melb International Film Festival
- TRIPLE ZERO HEROES (2009) Observational TV documentary series, 7 episodes, Channel 7 Australia
- ONCE BITTEN (2009) documentary series SBS – AFI/AACTA nomination
- FAMILY FOOTSTEPS (2007-2008) reality/documentary series 1 & 2, ABC
- MURDER IN THE SNOW (2008) documentary BBC & SBS
- Composer for Australia’s pavilion at the WORLD EXPO inNagoya, Japan (2006)
- STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (2004) (comedy) feature film starring Paul Hogan, Pete Postlethwaite & Michael Caton
- TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US (2002) (drama/mystic/romance) feature film written & directed by Michael Petroni. Starring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter. The Age Newspaper Critic’s Choice for Best Music in an Australian Feature Film 2002
- THE SADDLE CLUB (2001) 26 episodes
Dale Cornelius wishes to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters of the Boon Wurrung people, within the Kulin Nation, on which his work is produced and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.