---
name: "Dale Cornelius"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dale-cornelius"
fi1m_id: "dale-cornelius"
imdb_id: "nm1244349"
tmdb_id: 92739
wikidata_id: "Q64520571"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:32:51.850468+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dale Cornelius

## Identity

Dale Cornelius

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dale-cornelius
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dale-cornelius
- **IMDb ID:** nm1244349
- **TMDB ID:** 92739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q64520571
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64520571, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1244349/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92739

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64520571, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1244349/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92739

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Mary and Max*](https://film.one/film/mary-and-max.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dale Cornelius is an Australian composer and music director. He has scored more than 90 film and television productions.

His feature film credits include *Mary and Max* (2009), *Backtrack* (2015) and *Blinky Bill the Movie* (2015). He composed the score for the television series *The Doctor Blake Mysteries* (2013–2018). Cornelius has also written music for IMAX productions and Australian World Expo pavilions. He served as president of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers and won the APRA Screen Music Award for Best Music in a Short Film in 2025.

*Sources: imdb.com, dalecornelius.com.au, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mary and Max* (2009), Fi1m 80, Music, Original Music Composer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/mary-and-max.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Breakaway Femmes* (2025), Music
- *Senses of Cinema* (2022), Sound
- *AGE OF RAGE - The Australian Punk Revolution* (2022), Music
- *The Blake Mysteries: Ghost Stories* (2018), Music
- *The Story of Earth* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *MAMIL* (2017), Music
- *The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Fair Game* (2017), Music
- *Blinky Bill the Movie* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Backtrack* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Possum Wars* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Aim High In Creation!* (2013), Music
- *Queen of the Desert* (2012), Music Director
- *Gallipoli from Above* (2012), Sound Director
- *At World's End* (2009), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Charlie & Boots* (2009), Music
- *Prey* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Mary and Max* (2009), Original Music Composer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/mary-and-max.md)
- *Footy Legends* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Jisoe* (2005), Music
- *Strange Bedfellows* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Till Human Voices Wake Us* (2002), Original Music Composer

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