Matt Villa

Matt Villa is an Australian film editor, most famous for editing The Great Gatsby, for which he won Best Editing at the 3rd AACTA Awards alongside Jason Ballantine and Jonathan Redmond. Villa won his second AACTA Award the following year for Predestination.

Matt Villa
Born	Australia
Occupation	film editor
Years active	1999–present

In 2023, Villa was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Film Editing for the film Elvis.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1999	Bangers	Andrew Upton	Short film
2001	Neophytes and Neon Lights	Shane T. Hall
2002	Not Quite Cricket	Linda Kearns-Jesson	Short film
2005	Bride of Silence	Đoàn Minh Phượng
	Stories of Lost Souls	Various	Segment: Bangers
2007	The Final Winter	Brian Andrews Jane Forrest
2009	Daybreakers	The Spierig Brothers
2010	Lest We Forget	Chris Godfrey
2011	A Heartbeat Away	Gale Edwards
2013	The Great Gatsby	Baz Luhrmann	AACTA Award for Best Editing FCCA Award for Best Editing Nominated — ASE Award for Best Editing
2014	Love Song Devotions	Amanda Hood	Short film
	The Water Diviner	Russell Crowe	Nominated — AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated — FCCA Award for Best Editing
	Predestination	The Spierig Brothers	AACTA Award for Best Editing[2][3] FCCA Award for Best Editing
2017	The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay	Also voices Killer Croc
2018	Winchester	The Spierig Brothers
2021	Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway	Will Gluck
2022	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann	AACTA Award for Best Editing
2024	Sleeping Dogs	Adam Cooper

References

1. "The 95th Academy Awards (2023) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
2. Cronin, Seanna. "The Water Diviner, The Babadook share top AACTA honours". Seniors News. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
3. "'Predestination,' 'Water Diviner' Lead Australian Film Awards Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 April 2020.

External links

• Matt Villa at IMDb