Michael Taylor

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 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, playing for four months nationwide. 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. His most recent project, 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 will release the film summer 2021. 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. Recent credits include Bryan Wizemann's forthcoming "You Mean Everything to Me,' starring Morgan Saylor and Ben Rosenfield. He also cut Joel David Moore's "Hide and Seek," starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joe Pantoliano and Jacinda Barrett, and J.M. Burris's "Santa Fake," starring Damian McGinty, John Rhys-Davies, Judd Nelson and Jeff Fahey. He was an additional editor on Casimir Nozkowksi's "The Outside Story," starring Brian Tyree Henry, and was creative consultant on Semi Chellas's "American Woman," starring Hong Chau, Sarah Gadon, John Gallagher, Jr., Lola Kirke and Ellen Burstyn, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was selected for a Gala screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. His narrative credits also include 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, Bryan Wizemann's "About Sunny," starring Lauren Ambrose, Dylan Baker and Penelope Ann Miller, 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 Holly Morris's "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, IndieMemphis Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival, an editing mentor for the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project, and is an annual judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.