Michael Connell
MUSIC EDITOR
Welcome
Michael Connell has worked as a music editor in feature films since 1984 with many composers, on some of the biggest International films. He has been nominated by the MPSE several times for his work, and won two Golden Reels, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and The Butcher Boy.
Michael is a member of World Soundtrack Academy.
Recent Work
Michael is working on Netflix’s Our Man from Jersey, written by Joe Barton and David Guggenheim, directed by Julian Farino, with Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg and J K Simmons. Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker from Jersey, is quickly thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school ex-girlfriend Roxanne recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission.
He recently worked on Netflix’s Look Both Ways, directed by Wanuri Kahiu; Matilda, directed by Matthew Warchus, starring Andrea Riseborough, Emma Thompson and Stephen Graham. Music by Tim Minchin.
Michael was a Nominee for the 2022 Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation on Sing 2
Look Both Ways
On the eve of her college graduation, Natalie’s life played by Lili Reinhart, diverges into parallel realities.
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.
Sing 2
A sequel to the 2016 film Sing, which Michael worked one, due for release December 2021.
Tom & Jerry
Adaption of the classic Hanna-Barbera property, which reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry.
Four Kids and It
A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.
THE secret garden
A girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her uncle’s house.