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. In 2023, Villa was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Film Editing for the film Elvis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Villa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Editor
- 19 on MovieCove · 25 credits in all
What are Matt Villa's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Survival.
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 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 12
A split, not a type: Light 5 · Serious 1 · Dark 8
Grounded 1 · Stylized 8 · Heightened 5
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 6 · Intense 7
Steady 4 · Shifting 9 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 9 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 1
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 3
A split, not a type: Casual 6 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 5
A split, not a type: Resolved 8 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 4
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet6
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous4
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 Matt Villa's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Matt Villa'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
25 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Runner(2026)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Christy(2025)
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Eden(2024)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Fear Below(2025)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
And Mrs(2024)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Sleeping Dogs(2024)
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Scarygirl(2023)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Elvis(2022)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
At Last (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Winchester(2018)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
The Lego Batman Movie(2017)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
The Water Diviner(2014)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Predestination(2014)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
The Great Gatsby(2013)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all filmsLest We Forget (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Daybreakers(2009)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
The Final Winter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Bride of Silence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Stories of Lost Souls(2005)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
I, Robot(2004)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Bangers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Babe: Pig in the City(1998)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Dark City(1998)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Under the Lighthouse Dancing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Career shape
A full career of 23 titles from 1997 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Highest rated
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Most popular right now
Runner (2026)
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.
Awards
3 major nominations and no wins, 2023.
- Oscar, nominated · Best Achievement in Film Editing
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Editing
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Editing
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Matt Villa's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 55th percentile, the median of all 19; across their 14 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 55th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th6
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
9 of their 19 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser9
- Broadly Agreed3
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the pacing 45/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 55, detractors 27. 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 Matt Villa's work okay for kids?
Across up to 10 MovieCove titles with content scores, every category sits near the median of all 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 Matt Villa work with?
People who share at least 2 of Matt Villa's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ben Nott shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Michael SpierigShared titles: Winchester (2018), Predestination (2014), Daybreakers (2009)See all 3 shared titles with Michael Spierig
- Peter SpierigShared titles: Winchester (2018), Predestination (2014), Daybreakers (2009)See all 3 shared titles with Peter Spierig
- Baz LuhrmannShared titles: Elvis (2022), The Great Gatsby (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Baz Luhrmann
Writers
- Craig PearceShared titles: Elvis (2022), The Great Gatsby (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Craig Pearce
Actors
- Richard RoxburghShared titles: Eden (2024), Elvis (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Richard Roxburgh
- Sam NeillShared titles: Scarygirl (2023), Daybreakers (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Sam Neill
- Elizabeth DebickiShared titles: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021), The Great Gatsby (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Elizabeth Debicki
- Jason ClarkeShared titles: Winchester (2018), The Great Gatsby (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Jason Clarke
Cinematographers and editors
- Ben NottShared titles: Sleeping Dogs (2024), Winchester (2018), Predestination (2014), Daybreakers (2009)See all 4 shared titles with Ben Nott
- Jonathan RedmondShared titles: Elvis (2022), The Great Gatsby (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Jonathan Redmond
Producers
- Deborah GloverShared titles: Runner (2026), Sleeping Dogs (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Deborah Glover
- Jamal SannanShared titles: Runner (2026), Sleeping Dogs (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jamal Sannan
- Mark FasanoShared titles: Runner (2026), Sleeping Dogs (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Fasano
- Michael FavelleShared titles: Fear Below (2025), Scarygirl (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Favelle
