Daniel Laurie

Biography

Daniel Laurie is a supervising sound editor, based at Skywalker Sound. He began his career working in the cutting rooms at Soho and at Pinewood Studios in the UK, where he developed his focus on dialogue, ADR, and supervising sound editing. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to more than 50 films, spanning smaller, independent, dialogue-driven features to large-scale, effects-heavy blockbusters. Among his most prominent credits are several films in the Marvel Studios franchise, where he served as supervising sound editor. These include Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He also began by working on earlier British films, including Die Another Day (2002) and The Dreamers (2003), early in his career. His work has been formally recognised with major awards and nominations. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), shared with colleagues Douglas Murray, Pete Horner, Kim Foscato, Steve Boeddeker, Casey Langfelder, Andrea Gard, Pat Jackson, Goro Koyama, Andy Malcolm, and Joanie Diener. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) for Agatha All Along (2024), shared with Kim Foscato, Paula Fairfield, Richard Gould, Jacob Riehle, Andre Zweers, Kim B. Christensen, Fernand Bos, Mary Parker, Jana Vance, and Ronni Brown. In addition to his Emmy honours, he was on the nominations list for the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards in several categories, including for films such as Avengers: Endgame.