Michael Connell

MUSIC EDITOR

Welcome

Michael Connell has worked as a music editor in feature films since 1984, collaborating with a wide range of composers on some of the most prominent international productions.  He has been nominated multiple times by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) and is a two-time Golden Reel Award winner for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and The Butcher Boy.

He is a proud member of the World Soundtrack Academy.

Recent Work

 

Michael is currently working on Goodbye June for Netflix, directed by Kate Winslet in her feature directorial debut, and starring Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren and Timothy Spall.

Recent work includes The Salt Path, directed by Marianne Elliott, and starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Issacs; Netflix’s The Union, starring Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg and J K Simmons; and Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet for which Michael was nominated for a Golden Reel Award*.  He was also Composer on Mi Maestra se comio a mi amigo, directed by José Sierra.

*Nominee – 2024 Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture (Wonka)

Poster of the Salt Path

The Salt Path

A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.
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Mi Maestra se comio a mi amigo

Tomás, an 11-year-old boy living in his own fantasy world, must use his vast monster knowledge to fight against his new English teacher: a wicked woman who is, in fact, a child-eating monster.
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Wonka

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
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Matilda

An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical, Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

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Sing 2

A sequel to the 2016 film Sing, which Michael worked one, due for release December 2021.

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Tom & Jerry

Adaption of the classic Hanna-Barbera property, which reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry.