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Michael Taylor, ACE, is a member of the editing branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Based in New York City, he recently completed Noah Pritzker's "Ex-Husbands," starring Griffin Dunne, James Norton, Rosanna Arquette and Richard Benjamin. Recent credits include Dustin Guy Defa's "The Adults," starring Michael Cera, Hannah Gross and Sophia Lillis, selected for the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivalsl, a Universal Pictures release in August 2023, and Matt Sobel's "Goodnight Mommy," starring Naomi Watts, for Amazon Studios, released September 2022.

He was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Editing of a Feature, Comedy, for his work on Lulu Wang's "The Farewell." The film, starring Awkwafina, Tze Ma, Diana Lin and Zhao Shuzhen, was released by A24 in 2019. It won Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for best feature at the Gotham Awards and best foreign film at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. Awkwafina won best actress at the Golden Globes and Gothams, and co-star Zhao Shuzhen won best supporting actress at the Independent Spirit Awards.

He also cut Edson Oda's "Nine Days," starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Sarsgaard, Benedict Wong and Tony Hale, won the Waldo Salt Award for Best Screenwriting at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics released the film summer 2021. He was nominated for best editing at the Chicago Indie Critics Awards, 2022. He also cut Guy Nattiv's "Skin," which was released by A24 in 2019. The film, starring Jamie Bell, Danielle McDonald, Bill Camp, Vera Farmiga and Louisa Krause, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. He also cut Rick Alverson's "The Mountain," which was released by Kino Lorber in 2019. The film, starring Jeff Goldblum, Tye Sheridan, Hannah Gross and Denis Lavant, premiered in competition at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and BAM CinemaFest.

His narrative credits also include Bryan Wizemann's "You Mean Everything to Me,' starring Morgan Saylor and Ben Rosenfield, Ira Sachs' "Love is Strange," starring Alfred Molina, John Lithgow and Marisa Tomei, Elizabeth Wood's "White Girl," starring Morgan Saylor and Brian Marc, Liza Johnson's "Elvis & Nixon" starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey, and "Hateship Loveship," starring Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce and Nick Nolte, Silas Howard's "A Kid Like Jake," starring Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra, and Ann Dowd, Alex and Andrew Smith's "Walking Out," starring Matt Bomer and Josh Wiggins, Rick Alverson's "Entertainment," starring Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly and Michael Cera, and "The Comedy," starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, Julia Loktev's "The Loneliest Planet," starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg, and "Day Night Day Night," starring Luisa Williams, and Sydney Freeland's "Deidre and Laney Rob a Train," a Netflix original movie starring Ashleigh Murray, Rachel Crow and Tim Blake Nelson.

His documentary credits include Ethan Silverman's "Angelhearted Hipster: The Music of Marc Bolan and T. Rex," Holly Morris's "Exposure" and "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" (winner, Best Editing, Woodstock Film Festival), Mitch McCabe's "Youth Knows No Pain," Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's segment of "Freakonomics," and Margaret Brown's "The Order of Myths" (winner, Peabody Award) and "Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt."

He has served on film juries at the Gotham Awards, IndieMemphisand the Woodstock Film Festival, been an editing mentor for the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project, and is an annual judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, New York University's Purple List Screenplay competition, and the Academy's Student Oscar competition.

Michael Taylor at an event for Love Is Strange (2014)

Awards

Michael Taylor

American Cinema Editors, USA

Chicago International Film Festival

International Documentary Association

Woodstock Film Festival

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

Chicago Indie Critics Awards (CIC)

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