Biography

Joakim Sundström is a Swedish supervising sound editor, sound designer and musician. His credits include a number of Oscar, BIFA and BAFTA-winning films including Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and Seven Psychopaths (2012). Other notable projects include Fish Tank (2009), The Constant Gardener (2006), Touching The Void (2003) and The Berberian Sound Studio (2012). He is a long-time collaborator of British director Michael Winterbottom's with credits on In This World (2002), A Mighty Heart (2007), The Road To Guantanamo (2006), 24 Hour Party People (2002), The Killer Inside Me (2010) and Greed (2019) among many others. He also works regularly with Andrew Haigh with credits on 45 Years (2015), Lean On Pete (2017) and the upcoming feature All Of Us Strangers (2023). He has received two BIFA Awards for his work on Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and Brian Welsh's Beats (2019). In 2014 he won the prestigious EFA European Sound Designer of the Year Award for his work on David Mackenzie's prison drama Starred Up (2014). He has received a further three British Independent Film Award nominations for In This World (2002), Notes on Blindness (2016) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as well as a BAFTA nomination for The Constant Gardener (2006), three MPSA Golden Reel nominations for Touching The Void (2003), The Constant Gardener (2006) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and nominations for the International Press Academy Golden Satellite Award for Code 46 (2003) and a London Film Critics' Circle Award for Berberian Sound Studio (2012).

Born in the Baltic city of Gefle in the north east of Sweden, he currently resides in Brighton, England.
- IMDb mini biography by: MCA International

(On working with Michael Winterbottom for the first time on his 2002 feature 24 Hour Party People). To every problem there's a Molotov solution.