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John Clifford White

Australian composer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ54612794 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Clifford White is an Australian composer. His film credits include Romper Stomper. The Heartbreak Kid, Metal Skin, and Macbeth.

Accolades

Australian Film Institute Awards

Won. 1992 Best Original Music Score for Romper Stomper

Nominated. 2006 Best Original Music Score for Macbeth

ARIA Award

Won. 1993 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album for Romper Stomper

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

Won. 1995 Best Music Score for Metal Skin

Nominated. 2006 Best Music Score for Macbeth

IF Awards

Nominated. 2006 Best Music for Macbeth

Screen Music Awards

Won.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “John Clifford White” as australian composer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2006, 1993, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where John, Clifford and White can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as australian composer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q54612794. VIAF identifies the subject as 44507747. The Library of Congress control number is nb2010010436. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2006, 1993 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Clifford White” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.