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 recently completed Noah Pritzker's "Ex-Husbands," starring Griffin Dunne, James Norton, Rosanna Arquette and Richard Benjamin. Recent credits include Dustin Guy Defa's "The Adults," starring Michael Cera, Hannah Gross and Sophia Lillis, selected for the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivalsl, a Universal Pictures release in August 2023, and Matt Sobel's "Goodnight Mommy," starring Naomi Watts, for Amazon Studios, released September 2022. 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. 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. He also cut 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 released the film summer 2021. He was nominated for best editing at the Chicago Indie Critics Awards, 2022. 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. His narrative credits also include Bryan Wizemann's "You Mean Everything to Me,' starring Morgan Saylor and Ben Rosenfield, 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, 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 Ethan Silverman's "Angelhearted Hipster: The Music of Marc Bolan and T. Rex," Holly Morris's "Exposure" and "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, IndieMemphisand the Woodstock Film Festival, been an editing mentor for the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project, and is an annual judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, New York University's Purple List Screenplay competition, and the Academy's Student Oscar competition.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Editor, also actor and producer
- 40 on MovieCove · 57 credits in all
What are Michael Taylor's films like?
Across their 34 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 33
A split, not a type: Light 11 · Serious 8 · Dark 15
Grounded 28 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 1
Gentle 6 · Charged 21 · Intense 7
Steady 13 · Shifting 19 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 18 · Some laughs 15 · Funny 1
Slow burn 26 · Even-paced 8 · Relentless 0
Casual 12 · Engaged 19 · Full focus 3
A split, not a type: Easy watch 7 · Affecting 9 · Heavy 18
A split, not a type: Resolved 16 · Open-ended 13 · Ambiguous 5
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet17
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous11
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Michael Taylor's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 23 of their 40 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (12).
- Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) · actor · free
- The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) · editor · free
- Skin (2018) · editor · free
- Free in Deed (2015) · editor · free
- About Sunny (2011) · editor · free
- Entertainment (2015) · editor · free
- A Kid Like Jake (2018) · editor · free
- White Girl (2016) · editor · free
- Better Start Running (2018) · editor · free
- You Mean Everything to Me (2021) · editor · free
- Santa Fake (2019) · editor · free
- The Maid's Room (2013) · editor · free
Subscription and free streaming for Michael Taylor's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
57 credits, 40 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Ex-Husbands(2023)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
The Adults(2023)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Goodnight Mommy(2022)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Soul of a Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Exposure(2022)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Nine Days(2020)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Hide and Seek(2021)
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Skin(2018)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
The Farewell(2019)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
The Mountain(2018)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Santa Fake(2019)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Crossmaglen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
A Kid Like Jake(2018)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Better Start Running(2018)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Free in Deed(2015)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Walking Out(2017)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Youth in Oregon(2016)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
White Girl(2016)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Elvis & Nixon(2016)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Entertainment(2015)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
The Missing Girl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
I Believe in Unicorns(2014)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
All Eyes and Ears (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
All in Time(2015)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Love Is Strange(2014)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
The Maid's Room(2013)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Loitering with Intent(2014)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Hateship Loveship(2013)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
House of Dust (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Stranger Things (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Price Check(2012)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
The Comedy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
About Sunny(2011)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
The Loneliest Planet(2011)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
A Dog Year(2009)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Against the Current(2009)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
The Order of Myths (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Blackbird (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Day Night Day Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Homework (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Chrystal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Be Here to Love Me(2004)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Bad Santa(2003)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
3 A.M. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Julien Donkey-Boy(1999)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Joe the King(1999)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Eat Drink Man Woman(1994)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all filmsMarfa Lights (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 47 titles, 46 of them dated from 1994 to 2025.
Biggest box office
The Farewell (2019)
Highest rated
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Most popular right now
The Farewell (2019)
Film career
- 1994Screen debut· Eat Drink Man Woman
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Michael Taylor's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 46th percentile, the median of all 40; across their 34 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 48th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up10
- 50th to 74th8
- 25th to 49th16
- Below 25th6
Shape of the crowd
22 of their 40 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved4
- Universally Panned1
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed4
- Mixed22
Reviewers score the pacing 43/100 in their films, across 32 reviewed titles; fans 53, detractors 24. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Michael Taylor's work okay for kids?
Across up to 14 MovieCove titles with content scores, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Michael Taylor work with?
People who share at least 2 of Michael Taylor's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Julia Loktev shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Julia LoktevShared titles: My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile (2026), My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024), The Loneliest Planet (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Julia Loktev
- Bryan WizemannShared titles: You Mean Everything to Me (2021), About Sunny (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Bryan Wizemann
- Joel David MooreShared titles: Hide and Seek (2021), Youth in Oregon (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Joel David Moore
- Liza JohnsonShared titles: Elvis & Nixon (2016), Hateship Loveship (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Liza Johnson
Writers
- Dustin Guy DefaShared titles: The Adults (2023), The Mountain (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Dustin Guy Defa
Actors
- Hannah GrossShared titles: The Adults (2023), The Mountain (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Hannah Gross
- Morgan SaylorShared titles: You Mean Everything to Me (2021), White Girl (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Morgan Saylor
- Bill CampShared titles: Skin (2018), The Maid's Room (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Bill Camp
- Marisa TomeiShared titles: Loitering with Intent (2014), Love Is Strange (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Marisa Tomei
Composers and cinematographers
- Alex WestonShared titles: The Adults (2023), Goodnight Mommy (2022), The Farewell (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Alex Weston
- Mark SchwartzbardShared titles: You Mean Everything to Me (2021), About Sunny (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Schwartzbard
Producers
- Allison Rose CarterShared titles: The Adults (2023), The Mountain (2018), Love Is Strange (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Allison Rose Carter
- Ali JazayeriShared titles: A Kid Like Jake (2018), Elvis & Nixon (2016), Hateship Loveship (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Ali Jazayeri
- Jay Van HoyShared titles: Loitering with Intent (2014), Love Is Strange (2014), The Loneliest Planet (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Jay Van Hoy
- Lars KnudsenShared titles: Loitering with Intent (2014), Love Is Strange (2014), The Loneliest Planet (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Lars Knudsen
