[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).
[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.
[5][6] 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.
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.
[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.
Skubiszewski won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award for best original music score for Falling for Figaro (2021).