MATT VILLA, ASE has worked in the Australian film industry for nearly three decades. For his work on Baz Luhrmann’s screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby, he won Best Editing Awards from both AACTA and the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) and earned a nomination from the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) Guild for Best Editing on A Feature Film.

Matt has worked on numerous films with genre directors The Spierig Brothers, including Winchester, Daybreakers and their sci-fi thriller Predestination, for which he again won a Best Editing Award from both AACTA and the FCCA.

In addition, he was nominated for the AACTA and FCCA Best Editing Award for Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner.

He also has a list of family and animated films to his name, having worked on Happy Feet, Happy Feet Two, Legend of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole. Peter Rabbit 2 and The Lego Batman Movie, for which he was nominated for an ACE award and an Annie Award in the US, both for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for an Animated Feature Production.

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